This was just a really solid good time! Reminds me of HOW TO SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER and EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE. You follow an author on a vacation in Italy with other authors & some fans, she's trying to (fictionally) kill off the main guy in her series, but he says someone is really trying to kill him, and then bodies really start dropping.

This is a quirky/gimmicky story interspersed with nearly 300 footnotes throughout the text where the author breaks the fourth wall. I kind of wish the footnotes would've just been embedded in the text normally (because I love mysteries where the narrator breaks the fourth wall!), but I guess it was a smart move because some people don't like that quirk and it allows you to skip it for the most part (except there are a couple chapters in the end speaking straight to the reader).

I didn't think the reveal was too terrible surprising, but I had so much fun with the story that I didn't really mind not being blown away by a twist/reveal. What I did really like was that the threat was current, everyone looked suspicious, and you didn't have to understand something overly complicated for the reveal to make sense. Looking forward to the next book in the series!

Thank you to the publisher for granting me access to an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions remain my own.