No Words: A Novel

Written by Meg Cabot

Narrated by Piper Goodeve

Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children’s book author with a case of writer’s block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as they get through a weekend long book festival that just might change everything—including their feelings for each other.

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Author...

Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most beautiful islands in the Florida Keys.

Jo Wright always swore she’d never step foot on Little Bridge Island—not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there.

Then Jo’s given an offer she can’t refuse: an all-expense paid trip to speak and sign at the island’s first ever book festival.

Even though arrogant Will is the last person Jo wants to see, she could really use the festival’s more-than-generous speaking fee. She’s suffering from a crippling case of writer’s block on the next installment of her bestselling children’s series, and her father needs financial help as well.

Then Jo hears that Will is off-island on the set of the film of his next book. Hallelujah!

But when she arrives on Little Bridge, Jo is in for a shock: Will is not only at the book festival, but seems genuinely sorry for his past actions—and more than willing not only to make amends, but prove to Jo that he’s a changed man. 

Things seem to be looking up—until disaster strikes, causing Jo to wonder: Do any of us ever really know anyone?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Oct 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9780062890153

Meg Cabot

MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

Reviews for No Words

[Diana Reese Puckett · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The narrator did a good job. I've enjoyed the Little Bridge Island series so far ( this is book 3 ) and while I had fun with No Words... the heroine was a bit annoying in this installment. The romance was a bit lackluster and the heavy handed references to the heroine's children's series of books was a bit grating. If more Little Bridge Island books get released.... I'll stay on board for the ride.

[phyllis2779 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Nice book, enjoyable romance. Good characters and an interesting setting. Apparently this is part of a series because some of the lesser characters were in previous books. I may want to check those out and I am also interested in seeing if there are upcoming books.

[mcelhra · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Jo Wright is the author of the popular Kitty Katz children’s books. When she’s invited to the first Little Bridge Island book festival, she hesitates to accept because best-selling author Will Price lives on the island and she does not like him one bit. Her agent assures her that he won’t be there so Jo decides to go. Guess who’s there when she gets there? That’s right – Will! He wants to make things right with Jo, if she’ll let him.No Words was a fun, quick read. Meg Cabot is on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar so not only has she attended book festivals as an author, she’s been involved in organizing them as well. I feel like No Words gave me a little inside scoop about the literary world, which I loved.Will writes Nicholas Sparks-type books (although Meg has said that he’s not based on a real author) and there are excerpts from Will’s book, The Moment because Jo is reading it. Those were filled with really funny, over-the-top melodrama. I loved how she satirized that type of book.I felt like the chemistry between Will and Jo was a bit forced but overall, I enjoyed No Words. Meg Cabot is comfort reading for me. Her books give me a warm, fuzzy feeling when I’m reading them and No Words was no exception.

[amym3317 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Book three of Meg Cabot's Little Bridge Island series finds children's book author Jo Wright traveling to Little Bridge Island for their first-ever book festival. Although Jo has tried her hardest to avoid the idyllic island due to the fact that her archnemesis, Will Price, lives there, the stipend being offered as well as the publicity she needs for her long-overdue next book, Jo cannot turn it down. There's also the fact that Jo is struggling from an extreme case of writer's block, she's been told the beauty and calm of the island has helped other authors out of the same situation, so she decides to give it a try. Plus, she's been guaranteed that Will Price will be nowhere in sight of her. That plan completely goes up in smoke when one of the first people she sees upon disembarking the plane is none other than Will Price himself. Finding out that Will is a lot more involved in the festival than previously thought, Jo is ready to confront him about past remarks he made at the expense of her writing and books. Except, Will apologizes before she can confront him calling into question everything Jo has ever thought she knew about Will Price. This book in the series is hands down my favorite. The star of the show here, for me, is the behind-the-scenes look at being an author at a book festival with all that entails including spending time with other authors - whom you may or may not get along with - as well as dealing with the fans - or lack thereof. It was an interesting take and something I'm sure Meg Cabot drew in part from being an author herself. I liked how Meg Cabot also seamlessly incorporates what Jo is experiencing on Little Bridge Island into inspiration for Jo's own work in progress. Seeing the muse take hold organically as the case may be. The book is spread over the course of the festival weekend so three days and it reads really quickly. I kind of like the fact that we're following Jo and the rest for their entire trip/experience. It felt very "real-time" the way things happened. I also enjoyed seeing Will and Jo kind of seeing each other for the first time. Yes, they've met before, but those meetings have been clouded with their issues from the past and assumptions have sprung up in the interim. There's actually a lot they don't know about one another and I liked seeing them get a reset on that and seeing that there's more to the story than they previously thought about one another. I will say, I did think that the ending was a bit anti-climactic. I liked where the story went, but I didn't feel any kind of tension as we headed into the ending. The story kind of just progressed as it would and ended how it would. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that and I supposed the conflict was seated in Jo's inability to write and with Will set up as her foil, but both of those things solved themselves rather quickly.Overall, though, as I said this has been my favorite of the series. It works well as a standalone if you haven't read the other books. *ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.