The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz is the sequel to the 2021 ebook The Plot. Confused already? Me too, however I’m right here to inform you the place to get a recap of ebook one and assist you to determine whether or not you’ll like The Sequel!The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz: Evaluate With Spoilers additionally comprises a Plot Abstract and Spoilers for The Sequel.
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz: What You Have to Know
September 2024 was the worst time of my life to learn a ebook like The Sequel. I had meals poisoning after which, proper after that, a horrible hacking cough (not COVID). I’m a lot better, however my mind nonetheless is working at about 50% and these books are like Russian Dolls on the web page. However I’ve rallied and stretched myself to the restrict. I’ll depend on your feedback so DO NOT HOLD BACK.
Crucial factor you must learn about The Sequel:
For those who learn The Plot, did you HATE the ending? A lot of you within the feedback of my Spoiler Dialogue Submit of The Plot advised me you probably did.
If sure, then you’ll hate The Sequel with the warmth of a thousand fiery suns. Simply saying. You’ll be able to learn my protected spoilers beneath and see that I’m proper.
Are you able to learn The Sequel with out studying The Plot?
Positive, however I might NOT. I believe The Plot is a barely higher ebook and the 2 books are deeply interconnected.
Ought to You Learn a Plot Abstract of the Plot earlier than studying the sequel, The Sequel?
A thousand instances sure. The Plot got here out in 2021, which was a LONG time in the past.
For those who learn lots, studying years are like canine years, by which you multiply by seven. So when you learn a ebook a month in the past, it looks like seven months. So all of us learn The Plot a long time in the past.
Evaluate of The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Sequel is a real sequel, choosing up proper the place The Plot left off. That is the non-spoiler a part of the evaluate, so I can’t say the place that’s! (However I’ll inform you beneath.)
It’s additionally a Thriller-Thriller About Writers. For those who love this trope as a lot as I do, try my record of different titles.
I believed The Sequel was a lot darker, with way more gory content material, than The Plot (will clarify underneath spoiler safety beneath)
Can You inform me ANYTHING about The Sequel?
Sure!
With out spoilers, the ebook is about Anna, a widow who writes her first novel, Afterward, which is concerning the lead-up to, and aftermath of, the tragic loss of life of her husband Jake, who was a really profitable creator.
So in Afterward, Anna rewrites what occurs in The Plot however eliminates all of the components about her murdering individuals. It’s “her fact,” am I proper???
Will we get to learn Afterward in The Sequel?
No. However we do get to learn components of Evan’s unpublished manuscript. Which, when you bear in mind ebook one, is HIS model of Anna’s life. We bought to learn Jake’s model within the excerpts of The Crib (which have been in The Plot.) Are you continue to with me? Depart a remark and ask for assist when you want it. It’s a LOT.
So what occurs in The Sequel then?
Anna will get nameless messages (identical to Jake!) and realizes that she has NOT tied up all her murder-y free ends.
Like Yellowface, The Sequel can also be a send-up of the publishing business and writers. Within the Acknowledgment to The Plot, the creator says that the ebook “could appear a bit onerous on writers, however that shouldn’t shock anybody; we’re onerous on ourselves.”
Anna should not likely be a author then, as a result of she seems down on just about everybody.
Like Yellowface, each The Plot and The Sequel even have attention-grabbing issues to say about narratives and the way they’re constructed, who will get to inform tales and who they “belong” to.
Spoilers for The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
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What’s Included in these Spoilers Beneath:
10 second recap of The Plot
Anna’s new motive for her crimes in The Plot
Is Anna mendacity about her motive?
How Anna’s previous (described in The Plot) and new (revealed in The Sequel) crimes match collectively
10 second recap: The Sequel opens as (brace your self) Anna has murdered her husband Jake as a result of:
Anna is definitely a former teenage mother named Dianna who stole her personal daughter Rose’s id after murdering her
Jake (by chance) wrote the story of Anna’s life and fictionalized it right into a bestseller
Jake bought this concept from a partial manuscript by Anna’s brother Evan, who was himself writing about Anna’s life
When Anna came upon that her brother did this, she killed him
And when Anna came upon that Jake stole Evan’s story and revealed it, she killed him too
The Sequel is completely from Anna’s perspective
Which (I suppose) needs to be the case as a result of everybody else concerned in her saga (her dad and mom, Rose, Evan, and Jake) has died. Effectively, ALMOST everybody.
Within the ebook, Anna has simply written a novel referred to as The Afterward, which is a couple of lady named Celeste who falls in love with a struggling author. Simply as he’s on the cusp of success, he turns into the goal of nameless assaults. He hides them from his spouse, who turns into involved about his deteriorating frame of mind. Sadly, he takes his personal life. Sound acquainted?
However simply as in The Plot, an nameless troll begins taunting Anna, sending her pages of Evan’s previous manuscript with a word that claims “sound acquainted?” Evan’s manuscript is a couple of teen mom named Diandra and her daughter Ruby (who’re clearly Dianna/Anna and Rose.)
What? Anna thought she’d destroyed each hint of Evan’s manuscript.
Even worse, Anna is being taunted with Evan’s story, the story he stole of Anna/Dianna’s personal life. Nonetheless with me?
In The Sequel, Anna presents a COMPLETELY new motive for all her crimes:
Anna claims was sexually assaulted at age fifteen, and her dad and mom compelled her to undergo with the being pregnant and look after the child. Which, if true, is horrible.
I solely say “if true” as a result of to me, that is completely new info.
Throughout her villain confession on the finish of The Plot, Anna mentions nothing about this to Jake. In reality, she suggests she killed her daughter Rose as a result of she was a bitch who by no means confirmed her affection for her. (Howdy Mommy Dearest!)
I consider victims of sexual assault. However do I consider Anna, an individual who murdered her personal youngster?
At first I used to be not sure, however YES, I do consider Anna/Dianna was assaulted as she described.
I believe that serial killers are born AND made. That Anna was born with psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies and that life experiences in all probability pushed her over the sting.
Right here’s the way in which I see Anna’s crimes:
I’m going to record the crimes in chronological order, although we don’t discover out about them that approach.
Section One: vengeance.
First, Dianna kills the man who allegedly assaulted and impregnated her. (We study this in The Sequel). Then, when Rose is a child, Dianna kills her dad and mom.
Years go by. Dianna learns that her daughter was awarded a school scholarship and is escaping the horror home she grew up in. She is so resentful and jealous that she kills Rose and takes her place in school to get the life she missed out on. (We study this in The Plot)
Vengeance Section Physique depend: 4
Section Two: Cowl-up
You already know what they are saying, the cover-up is at all times worse than the crime. And they’re proper. In The Sequel, Anna has to go on a literal killing spree to get rid of everybody who may know what she did. Buckle up!
Evan Parker
He falls into each classes. Anna hated her brother as a result of he was the golden youngster, however the set off for killing him was that he had discovered that his niece “Rose” was really his sister Dianna. And that should imply that Dianna killed her personal daughter. (He clearly figured this out as a result of he tells Jake about it in The Plot.)
At this level, Anna is feeling like she bought away with issues. Lastly. However she hears about this fashionable ebook a couple of teen mother who kills her personal daughter and takes her place. Okay, however she then learns that the ebook was written by her brother’s former writing trainer, Jake Bonner.
So “Rose” (previously Dianna) now morphs into Anna, who engineers a gathering with Jake. And trolls him on-line, as a result of she’s so indignant that he stole her life story. (Truly, you will notice when you verify my Plot Abstract from the Plot, Jake’s model is kind of totally different.)
JakeBonner
However then Jake begins investigating Evan and his household and the tragic loss of life of “Dianna.” He’s bought to go. She poisons his soup. That’s the tip of The Plot.
Martin Purcell
He’s a pal of Jake’s from his writing program. In The Sequel, Anna is satisfied he should be the individual trolling her. He’s not, however he tells Anna he needs to search out Evan’s unfinished novel and thinks Evan’s niece Rose will need to have it. He’s going to search out her! Nope. Anna medicine him and pushes him down the steps. Poor Martin!
Arthur Pickens
Anna’s troll sends a letter to her writer with an excerpt that describes Rose’s homicide. Anna decides it should be Pickens, the lawyer in Georgia she employed to promote their household home after Evan died. She goes to search out him, and he kidnaps her and drives her to Rose’s grave web site (he needs to her dig up the physique so he can check the DNA.) She manages to hit Pickens with the shovel, push him within the gap she was digging, and buries his physique.
Betty and Sylvia
This couple purchased the Parker residence and in a bizarre flip of occasions, they’re Anna’s trolls AND Betty can also be the sister of Patrick, Anna’s first homicide sufferer, AND the aunt of Anna’s daughter Rose.
How did these two ladies determine that Dianna/Anna murdered their brother and their niece? Earlier than Anna killed Evan, he despatched a complete copy of his manuscript to a literary agent with an SASE. It took the agent some time to learn it, reject it, and ship it again. As a result of they’d purchased the Parker home, they bought the mail. Blame the USPS, or an absence of mail forwarding. Anna shoots them each with Pickens’ gun and phases their deaths as a murder-suicide. Grim!
NUMBER OF PEOPLE ANNA KILLED IN BOTH BOOKS: 10
The Ending Defined of The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz?
I’m sorry to say that Anna will get away with it. (That is what angered SO a lot of you on the finish of The Plot.) Except there’s a ebook three…
Whereas I do assume Dianna was assaulted as a youngster, she additionally kills 10 individuals.
Does this even the rating? I suppose, however there have been loads of harmless victims who die horrible deaths in The Sequel.Together with her personal daughter, who did nothing mistaken.
Coming Quickly: A extra thorough studying information to The Sequel, IF sufficient individuals request it. Let me know within the feedback!
