Review: The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor
Review: The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor - September 2023
This book had me at the title
and then as I opened it up, I was thrust into a world that fans of Rebecca by
Daphne Du Maurier will love. This book is for all those fans who wish they
could read a modern-day take on the Rebecca story. It was just as twisted and
then it also weaved in facts from the real story with Daphne Du Maurier and how
she was accused of plagiarism of the story and then touched on the book set in
the islands - Wide Saragossa Sea by Jean Rhys. The book starts with our main
character during a writer's block when
she is approached to ghostwrite a story for a reclusive actor. Olivia accepts
the invitation to meet him and is soon thrust into the crazy world of Henry
Asherwood as she starts to learn about the females and the males in the lineage
line and discovers that the females were all successful at one point, but
slowly faded as the men rose and then the females were tossed aside and it
looked like the only way to escape was death or to fake their death and
disappear. Can Olivia be saved when she starts unraveling the pieces and learns
that her story Becky and her past are closer to Henry's world than she ever
realised as she learns that back in university, she crossed paths with the
former Mrs. Henry Asherwood. The Fiction Writer also touched on a topic about
writing what you know and that fiction is a mixture of make-believe with a few
hidden truths and facts sprinkled into the story. If you love twists on classic
novels, then Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer is the read for you.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NavS3A
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