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| The Perfect Rom-Com |
Let’s begin with the summary:
Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers' conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for her grandmother's financially struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. What she doesn't expect is to get tangled up with Jack Sterling, a jaded literary agent who will change everything.
Their partnership begins with a devil’s bargain: Bryony will ghostwrite for his talentless bestselling client if Jack will represent her real novel. But as deadlines loom and sparks fly during a traveling book tour that's always one breath away from disaster, Bryony realizes she's not just rewriting romance novels—she's living one.
And now, my review:
These characters were interesting. First, the author takes us into the aspiring author’s world with attendance at a writers’ conference. As a newbie, the FMC doesn’t realize her expansive tome does not and will not appeal to agents or acquiring editors. We have our meet-cute and can immediately dislike the MMC. Yet when we see some communications on his phone we realize he has his own problems that he’s deftly navigating.
What follows is completely unlikely—contrived?—when our heroine becomes a trusted fiction ghostwriter—an area outside her experience. I couldn’t buy in on that premise.
We had a time skip early on in the manuscript and perhaps that led to me not really connecting to the characters. I couldn’t really root for either of them or care about their developing romance. The book’s title promised something I didn’t feel it delivered, unfortunately.
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