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Family drama about Isabelle, an aspiring novelist, and her emotionally distant very famous father who is a prize winning author.

It‘s not a bad book, just felt kind of surface level emotionally for me and somewhat predictable. I liked it but didn‘t love it.

Five stars. Loved it!

This book is about a young author and her famous father. It is also about a marriage, and about being a wife and mother. It‘s also a story within a story.

Set in New York City and a house in the Hamptons, the story moves between present day daughter and father narratives and past mother narrative. Thrown in is one of their novels. It works so well. And I loved the ending - not tidy, but hopeful.

July 25, 2024

Found this and loved the cover. A family that hides feelings and needs from each other. A mother who loves, a father that loves his notoriety as a writer and a daughter who cannot find her way in life. If you are a writer this book has to affect your thoughts on writers block. A book within a book. Good first novel by this author.

I liked the premise from a Litsy review and found it on Scribd but I just can't. The writing reminds me of the terrible novella I'm trying to translate - using the characters's names too much, each sentence not bad in any specific way I can pinpoint, just... Mediocre.

Full review and Recipe that matches the book: https://bakingthroughbookclub.com/2023/06/19/where-credit-is-due/

A Likely Story is a tale of egotism, self-absorption, plagiarism, and the different paths love can take. It's filled with unlikeable characters, but you can't help but feel sorry for each one at different points. Even the strongest, most self-assured people are crying out for acceptance and love on the inside.

#MoreMehThanYeah #BorrowNotBuy Isobel has grown up in the shadow of her father‘s literary achievements & more than anything she wants to prove she‘s as talented a writer as he his. Unfortunately as she nears 30 literary fame is still eluding her. When her mother dies suddenly, Isobel is left with a secret that has the power to change both her career and her father‘s too. This book had so much potential but it just fell mostly flat for me.

This is another twist on the messy, rich family trope. It was an enjoyable read but nothing special. Isabel wasn‘t a very exciting character. I would‘ve liked more from her best friend or mom.

Isabel has always wanted to write, but she‘s lived in the shadow of her award-winning author father. When her mom, the soul of the family passes, Isabel feels unmoored. But her mother leaves a surprise inheritance that changes Isabel‘s career.

Thank you Christine for the awesome #Bookmail!! I think it will be cool to try a new book subscription! #Aardvark I‘m looking forward to reading this one!!

#LitsyLove

This first deck read of summer was good, sad, a bit twisty.

Budding author, Isabelle Manning, learns her late mother ghost wrote her father‘s best selling novels.

Ambition✨ Legacy ✨ Deception

Getting in some reading with Rumpel before heading in to work today! 💕📚 Has anyone else read this one yet? I really like it so far! Some of the characters are remarkably unlikable but I still can't stop reading! #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #rumpel

This is a story of family, expectations, ego, and the literary world (aspects of which are skewered thoroughly). The POV is constantly rotating, so we see the story unfold from many perspectives. I really liked this—the echoes that are present between a couple characters really worked instead of feeling repetitive.

“She could almost hear her daughter laughing: Oh please, Mom, that‘s a likely story. Well, there was one way to prove it.”
#aardvarkbookclub #alikelystory

This is the fastest delivery I‘ve had for my #aardvarkbookclub box so far! I picked this one partly for the great cover, and partly from the first page glimpse on the ap. Looking forward to it!

Well at least ONE of my first round of guesses still holds for the new #aardvark clues today! 👏🏽

#Aardvark released their first round of clues and DAMN is this hard, haha. More clues coming tomorrow, but based on these settings my first guesses are:

1. A Likely Story
2. Some Desperate Glory
3. The Half Moon (this is a shot in the dark since it would be an early release!)
4. American Mermaid (??)
5. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

What do you think? Any "books set in bars" released in March/April that come to mind?

I really liked this family drama/ wealthy people behaving badly story set in NYC but there were more deeper themes of how it is like to be a child of a very successful parent, in this case an author.. also it gave great insight into the publishing world.