Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson is:
- bookish
- rom-com
- enemies to lovers
- closed door
Set at Pennington Press, a small non-fiction publishing house, this novel includes lots of book talk from that perspective. Pennington editor Savannah Cade aspires to be a romance author and secretly drafted her first novel. Her dreams are crushed when Claire Donavan, her ideal editor from the leading romance press, reads her manuscript ... and finds it lacking. She gives Savannah 45 days to rework the entire novel. Savannah uses every spare minute to edit her book, including some time at work where she sets up a workplace in a secret room on the top floor of the Victorian mansion that serves as Pennington's offices.
Since she's certain the room is only known to her, she's shocked to find someone else's notes on her manuscript-in-process. They begin as helpful edits, but as the exchanges continue, the notes become personal. Savannah thinks she knows who's leaving them, but her in-person interactions with him are nothing like the chemistry they have on the page.
Meanwhile, her relationship with the new Pennington Press CEO is slowly moving from intimidation to attraction. If only she had these feelings for her secret editor ...
I've read all three of Ms. Ferguson's novels - they are fun palate cleansers between heavier books. She always includes a few scenes with physical comedy that are over-the-top but make me chuckle (and roll my eyes). For this one, the identity of the 'secret' editor is very obvious, and the reveal is drawn out far too long. I enjoyed the audiobook with narration by Talon David.
- bookish
- rom-com
- enemies to lovers
- closed door
Set at Pennington Press, a small non-fiction publishing house, this novel includes lots of book talk from that perspective. Pennington editor Savannah Cade aspires to be a romance author and secretly drafted her first novel. Her dreams are crushed when Claire Donavan, her ideal editor from the leading romance press, reads her manuscript ... and finds it lacking. She gives Savannah 45 days to rework the entire novel. Savannah uses every spare minute to edit her book, including some time at work where she sets up a workplace in a secret room on the top floor of the Victorian mansion that serves as Pennington's offices.
Since she's certain the room is only known to her, she's shocked to find someone else's notes on her manuscript-in-process. They begin as helpful edits, but as the exchanges continue, the notes become personal. Savannah thinks she knows who's leaving them, but her in-person interactions with him are nothing like the chemistry they have on the page.
Meanwhile, her relationship with the new Pennington Press CEO is slowly moving from intimidation to attraction. If only she had these feelings for her secret editor ...
I've read all three of Ms. Ferguson's novels - they are fun palate cleansers between heavier books. She always includes a few scenes with physical comedy that are over-the-top but make me chuckle (and roll my eyes). For this one, the identity of the 'secret' editor is very obvious, and the reveal is drawn out far too long. I enjoyed the audiobook with narration by Talon David.
