As the narrator gets more involved with him, dukess gives us an uncanny portrait of love in your twenties--hopeful, carefree until you're not, in loveuntil you're brutally woken from the reverie. Dukess’ backstory compels as well.

The last book party is a coming of age story about eve rosen, who is stuck in a position as an assistant to an editor at a book publishing company. Set in cape cod and nyc in the late 1980’s, the story is told through the eyes of 25-year old aspiring ...  Read More

Henry holt & company and netgalley provided an advance copy of this novel through netgalley. The author, karen dukes, is an award-winning author. Dukes is also the co-founder of henry holt and amp; company.

The book party is an end of summer affair where the exclusive guest list dress as famous or obscure literary characters. Guests are expected to dress as a literary character and henry does his best to guess each one. At the end of the summer there is ...  Read More

The last book party is like a bad * that you shouldn’t dabble with, but you will try anyways because it sounded soo good. The book is a compelling commentary on the industry, the harsh and fickle judgements doled out, and the effects this has on the i...  Read More

This book was found lacking in just about every way. I think the author experienced the cape differently than me!