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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’ve borrowed/returned this book from the library four times because I was afraid that when I started it I would need all day to read it–I was right.

I couldn’t put this book down. The voice and tone of the story captured me from the beginning. I was pretty sure I knew how the story would go (I was right), but Center’s writing style and voice kept me engaged through the entire thing. I listened to the audiobook in one day.

This book is everything I love about Center’s writing, but the character voice feels so much more natural, which I’m attributing to the female main character loving rom-coms in a way I suspect Center does. (If not rom-coms, the romance genre as a whole.) As always happens with her books, I not only loved the characters, I loved their emotional maturity. You won’t find petty, whiny MCs in Center’s books–her characters do the hard work of moving past self-centered living to loving others like themselves.

I can’t wait for the next Katherine Center book.

Rated PG-13 for some swearing and alcohol consumption.

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