The Rom-Commers | Review

The Rom-Commers Published by St. Martin's Press by Katherine Center
on June 11, 2024
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Chick-Lit
Pages: 336
Source: Netgalley
Format: ARC, eBook
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Also by this author: What You Wish For, The Bodyguard
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ISBN: 1250283809
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She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That win contests! But she’s 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 Yates―The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!―it’s a break too big to pass up.
Emma’s 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? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone―much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script―it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emma’s 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 matter―even 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 they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules―and comes true?

I had such high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, out of the three books that I’ve read by this author, this one wasn’t my favorite.

The premise was superb, the characters were great–nuanced and fleshed out, even–but there was just something lacking for me.

If I had to guess it’d be the fact that the characters spent the majority of the book pretending and acting like there wasn’t anything between them and then at the last second there’s a relationship. And while it was well-earned–it just didn’t satisfy me.

I will say, however, that it was entertaining in the build up. There were some great moments between the two main characters that are worth reading, which is why I went with the rating I did.

All-in-all not Center’s best–not the worst either.

 

 

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