It is about a woman named Angel who works in a bookstore and with no other credentials than that, becomes the high-powered assistant to a famous but mentally deranged book publisher in San Francisco.
Thus begins the crazy story of Angel's time with the Lucy Fiamma Agency and with Lucy herself. Lucy is critical, finicky, changes her mind on a whim and doesn't know herself one minute to the next what she wants. But Angel swims these dangerous waters with ease and always seems to calm Lucy.
One of Angel's responsibilities is to read manuscripts as they come in from authors. She then passes them along to Lucy if they are worthy of Lucy's attention. Several of these books get passed to Lucy and with great fanfare get sold to larger publishing houses and a lot of money is exchanged hands. This is all well and good until an anonymous manuscript lands on Angel's desk and the storyline mimics the very publishing agency she works for. The author only gives her a chapter at a time and refuses to be named. Angel goes nuts trying to figure out if it is her boyfriend who submitted the manuscript, or someone at the agency.
So, as plots go, not a horrible one, right? The problem is that the supposed books that the agency sells to larger publishing houses have horrible plots and the writing is worse than the actual book itself. I can't imagine those books getting sold, let alone making it past an editor for this book. And the writing by the mysterious author is just as bad and it is interspersed throughout the book.
In the end, you of course find out who the mysterious author is and Angel of course gets the man she is hankering after. No twists, no evil plots, no derring-do.
Rating: 4 / 10
ISBN: 9780307346049
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Edition: 1st Edition