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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
A frothy, pacy read. And, as romcoms go, this one nails the manufactured crises and separations between the two protagonists that undergird the genre. Not just misunderstandings for these love birds, no; full on PR and tabloid scandals with career-ruining implications!
I enjoyed - and also tired of - the references to online stan culture, found the idea of navigating a public profile as a famous person a wonky metaphor for more general experiences of selfhood, and wondered at the writers’ obsession with ‘belt loops,’ which are explicitly grabbed, hooked and generally toyed with no fewer than three times in the narrative.
It also joins a series of novels I’ve read in recent years that are intent on unpicking the idea of ‘celebrity.’ Swing Time by Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney’s latest jump to mind but there are bound to be loads of others. The writers of The View…, however, are distinctly un-famous, unlike the two wunderkind, Zadie and Sally, and so the default to autobiographical reading that it’s so easy to make is circumvented.
Otherwise [insert comments on its sorta mid-brow accessibility and thoughtfulness, attachment to the glamour of celebrity and something something something]. End of review!
I enjoyed - and also tired of - the references to online stan culture, found the idea of navigating a public profile as a famous person a wonky metaphor for more general experiences of selfhood, and wondered at the writers’ obsession with ‘belt loops,’ which are explicitly grabbed, hooked and generally toyed with no fewer than three times in the narrative.
It also joins a series of novels I’ve read in recent years that are intent on unpicking the idea of ‘celebrity.’ Swing Time by Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney’s latest jump to mind but there are bound to be loads of others. The writers of The View…, however, are distinctly un-famous, unlike the two wunderkind, Zadie and Sally, and so the default to autobiographical reading that it’s so easy to make is circumvented.
Otherwise [insert comments on its sorta mid-brow accessibility and thoughtfulness, attachment to the glamour of celebrity and something something something]. End of review!
How do I put into words what this book made me feel????
Nothing I love more than being the fly on the wall witnessing rich peoples messy drama!!
“It’s just that I spent all that time pretending I was in love with you. And now I have to pretend I’m not.”
“It’s just that I spent all that time pretending I was in love with you. And now I have to pretend I’m not.”
Picked this up bc I liked this duo's most recent novel and it turns out they had another one they'd already written. The premise is what if the fake relationship you've been keeping in the press on and off for the last decade might actually be real and one of your exes is just being The Worst but also one of you is deeply controlling and the other is just dancing through life? This was a fun read from the library.
I loved this book.
This book was the perfect quick read. I finished it in a day or so and was pleasantly surprised that I loved the characters and the setting of all the places Win & Leo went. I could have sit out on a beach and devoured this book whole if I had had a physical copy
This book was the perfect quick read. I finished it in a day or so and was pleasantly surprised that I loved the characters and the setting of all the places Win & Leo went. I could have sit out on a beach and devoured this book whole if I had had a physical copy
Fake dating celebrities slowburn PERFECTION. Leo Milanowski I love you