Meet Me In The Margins by Melissa Ferguson
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Romance revolving around edits could have used a lot of editing
What you need to know about “Meet Me in the Margins”:
✔ Contemporary “sweet” romance
✔ First Person Narration only from Savannah’s p.o.v.
✔ Workplace romance
✔ Savannah, editor and aspiring romance novelist
✔ Will Pennington, new CEO of Pennington Publishing
✔ Complete Standalone
Savannah Cade is an assistant acquisitions editor at publishing company, Pennington. She’s also writing a romance novel on the side.
Pennington Publishing is a stuffy, pretentious publishing house that sneers at “commercial fiction” all while suffering a 29% reduction in staff in the past year. This doesn’t stop the snooty and formidable Ms. Pennington from hiring her own son, Will. Will who was fired from his last job at a publishing house.
During an all-staff meeting Savannah is editing her romance novel when she trips and the pages go flying everywhere. She determines, after scooping it all up, that she needs to hide it fast before she is discovered. She deposits it in her SECRET ROOM and bolts. When she finally retrieves it, she finds it’s been annotated with edits.
Unfortunately Savannah is incensed by the mystery editor’s suggestions. All of which could have been applied to Meet Me In The Margins, ironically enough.
I usually like descriptive text but this book was a little much. Everything was a simile. It was too flowery. Sometimes simple and straight-forward is better.
Also, the action was often subject to numerous tangents which make the pacing sluggish. There’s just too much information stuffed into every sentence. I was looking forward to reading this based on the synopsis but the book was disappointing.
I received a review copy of this contemporary romance and this is my honest review.
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Synopsis
Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious publisher producing only the highest of highbrow titles. And while editing the latest edition of The Anthology of Medieval Didactic Poetry may be her day job, she has two secrets she’s hiding.
One: She’s writing a romance novel.
Two: She’s discovered the Book Nook—a secret room in the publishing house where she finds inspiration for her “lowbrow” hobby.
After leaving her manuscript behind one afternoon, she returns to the nook only to discover someone has written notes in the margins. Savannah’s first response to the criticism is defensive, but events transpire that force her to admit that she needs the help of this shadowy editor after all. As the notes take a turn for the romantic, and as Savannah’s madcap life gets more complicated than ever, she uses the process of elimination to identify her mysterious editor—only to discover that what she truly wants and what she should want just might not be the same. Melissa Ferguson’s latest—a love letter to books, readers, and romance—will leave fans laughing out loud and swooning in the same breath.
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