2.75ā
GenreĀ ~ romantic comedy
SettingĀ ~ California
Publication dateĀ ~ June 11, 2024
Page CountĀ ~ 336 (31 chapters +e)
Audio lengthĀ ~ 11 hours 21 minutes
NarratorĀ ~ Patti Murin
POVĀ ~ single 1st
FeaturingĀ ~ mentions of cancer, forced proximity, slow burn, no steamage
My review:
Emma is obsessed with Charlieās work and is thrilled when her friend gets her a job working with him on a screenplay.
šļøcan you see me over there on outlier island all by myself? I think what didnāt work for me the most was how mean Charlie was to Emma. He was truly awful, repeatedly. And when we find out why it was too late for it to be redeemable in my eyes. I wasnāt feeling their chemistry, perhaps due to the meanness. Sheās been an obsessive caretaker for her father since the accident that (I can’t remember if this is early knowledge, so I’ll hide it just in case)Ā (view spoiler), so that made you feel for Emma, but I canāt say I really enjoyed her character. She was even mean to her sister at one point. I absolutely did not like her drunken night by the pool, so dumb. There were some funny bits, but nothing that had me rolling like I like my rom-coms to be.
Overall, it was okay, but not great for me.
Narration notes:
She did fine for Emma, but she didnāt really work her tone too well for Charlie.
*Thanks to the author, Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Book blurb:
Sheās rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. Sheās spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comediesāgood ones! That win contests! But sheās also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie YatesāThe Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!āitās a break too big to pass up.
Emmaās younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Donāt meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesnāt want to write with anyoneāmuch less āa failed, nobody screenwriter.ā Worse, the romantic comedy heās written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesnāt even care about the scriptāitās just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emmaās not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matterāeven if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story theyāre writing breaks all Emmaās rulesāand comes true?
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