Finished: The Sequel (Jean Hanff Korelitz) The Sequel is, well, a sequel...to the book The Plot. I loved that first book, and it ended up having several twists and turns with the wife of plagerizing author, Jake Bonner, coming out on top. But...was Anna Williams-Bonner a nice person? No! It turns out she was literally the murderous and insane subject of the book that Jake had claimed as his own (which had actually been written by a deceased former student of Jake's, who never sent his book to anyone before he died). Anna ended up being the sister of that former student, and she ended his life when she found out his book was going to be about her former years, when she murdered her own daughter, assumed her identity, and then murdered her own parents. Yes, insane! Anyway, at the end of The Plot, Jake is no more...done in by his beloved wife, Anna. In The Sequel, Anna goes on to write her own extremely successful best-seller, Afterward, her life story as she wants to tell it. Then, when she's at her highest of highs, Anna starts getting cryptic messages about HER book, the same kind she sent to Jake when he claimed her brother's book as his. Someone is tormenting her...telling her they know who she really is and all about the horrific things she did, including killing her own daughter. I won't spoil the ending, but the book takes a few too many turns for me this time before revealing who is responsible for the messages. And, the winner in the end is disappointing to me. I'd still read another sequel related to The Plot if Korelitz wrote one, though. :-)
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