Meet Me in the Margins, by Melissa Ferguson

If charming book-ish reads are your jam, then Meet Me in the Margins, by Melissa Ferguson might just be what you’ve been looking for.

Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at a high brow publishing company. Pennington Publishing specializes in prestigious nonfiction literature where commercial fiction is a big NO! But Savannah has a secret. She’s writing her very own romance novel (the horror!) under a pen name. She mistakenly leaves her manuscript in the publishing house’s book nook where a mystery editor leaves her notes in the margins of her story. At first taken aback by the audacity of her undercover reviser, Savannah starts to fall hard and fast. Cue the love songs.

This one was a bit of a slow burn. I adored the premise…which is what kept me reading…but it did’t really get good for me until a little over halfway through the story. I LOVE bookish reads, but there was a lot in this one that didn’t check the boxes for me. For a romance book, I didn’t really think it was all that romantical. The romance part of the story was underdeveloped. Almost a little rushed at the end, too.

Again, I really loved the concept. I mean there’s something sweet and charming about a hopeful first-time author falling for her mystery editor, y’know?! I felt the “You’ve Got Mail” vibes, but didn’t come close to that caliber of a story. The ending was sweet, albeit predictable, but I guess that’s what endears me to these types of books in the end. Meet Me in the Margins was a charming little read that didn’t really meet my expectations, but was enjoyable overall.

3.5 out of 5 stars.