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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
This was great. I absolutely loved the back and forth of the timeline. I don't usually like that format, but this was done very well. I was amazed at the intimacy that was all through the book. Something so hot in all the glances and tells and all of the spaces. The spicy scene at the end-ish was really well done as well.
The characters are so well rounded and full and I fucking loved it. I want to meet and know these people.
Okay the ending chapter was absolute beauty. Her line about how life and relationships are just revisions as we go, and how we can appreciate our roughest drafts because they led to this is so sweet.
The characters are so well rounded and full and I fucking loved it. I want to meet and know these people.
Okay the ending chapter was absolute beauty. Her line about how life and relationships are just revisions as we go, and how we can appreciate our roughest drafts because they led to this is so sweet.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read based on a recommendation from GabbyReads on YouTube
Tandem read the physical and with the audio from Everand (both the FMC and MMC narrators were really good!!)
I LOVED IT! It was written beautifully and you could sense the angst and tension between the two characters. Loved the dual POV’s as well as the dual timelines (past and present).
So many beautiful quotes:
To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing-you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I'm half of everything and greater for it.
Because I've realized a life lived with you is the best story I could ever tell.
I don't want some perfectly crafted love story. I can't live up to it! There's no final page in life, no point where we kiss and everything is happily-ever-after. We can't be contained in neat phrases or nicely designed covers. Were not characters. We're people. I couldn't be with someone who only wanted the story version. I wanted-I want-something real, and I'm not convinced you can handle real.
What we have is a fairy tale. It is a dream come true. And it's imperfect. I wish you could understand it can be both. Fiction is fiction and it's real. They're not opposites. They live within each other.
I don't know that happiness is the goal, really. If we're not doing this to be happier, then why?… To find out who we are again.
I'll read my writing for the whole room, because she's in it. Because really, I'm only reading for one person.
Tandem read the physical and with the audio from Everand (both the FMC and MMC narrators were really good!!)
I LOVED IT! It was written beautifully and you could sense the angst and tension between the two characters. Loved the dual POV’s as well as the dual timelines (past and present).
So many beautiful quotes:
To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing-you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I'm half of everything and greater for it.
Because I've realized a life lived with you is the best story I could ever tell.
I don't want some perfectly crafted love story. I can't live up to it! There's no final page in life, no point where we kiss and everything is happily-ever-after. We can't be contained in neat phrases or nicely designed covers. Were not characters. We're people. I couldn't be with someone who only wanted the story version. I wanted-I want-something real, and I'm not convinced you can handle real.
What we have is a fairy tale. It is a dream come true. And it's imperfect. I wish you could understand it can be both. Fiction is fiction and it's real. They're not opposites. They live within each other.
I don't know that happiness is the goal, really. If we're not doing this to be happier, then why?… To find out who we are again.
I'll read my writing for the whole room, because she's in it. Because really, I'm only reading for one person.
3.75 stars. I enjoyed this book and the anticipation the authors built up as to why Kat and Nathan didn’t speak for 4 years. At times I felt the story was slow but overall I enjoyed the dual point of view and seeing the characters grow through tough emotions and the realizations that occurred to them in the process.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Dos co-escritores de Best-Sellers que después de cuatro años sin hablarse se reúnen para escribir un nuevo libro y afrontar sus fantasmas del pasado. The Roughest Draft lo siento como una mezcla entre Beach Lovers y People We Meet on Vacation.
“You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I'm half of everything and greater for it.”
Hoy me he enterado que existe el “writers-in-love trope” y ahora necesito más de esto. La historia me gustó muchísimo, me fascina mucho este trope donde los protagonistas se reúnen después de mucho tiempo sin saber del otro y van navegando entre sus historias del pasado y su presente. Me he vuelto muy fan de ver cómo los personajes van reconectando y redescubriendo momentos que en algún momento los hicieron felices (y toda la angustia y el peso del motivo por el que se separaron)
“I want to write our lives together, K. To make each of my days a page written in your hand. To craft the chapters of my future with you in every word. Because I’ve realized a life lived with you is the best story I could ever tell.”
Lo que más he disfrutado de este libro fue como los autores describían las emociones y pensamientos de los personajes, el hecho de que Nathan y Kat utilizaran su escritura como medio de comunicación hacía todo mucho más intenso. Tengo el libro con mil cosas subrayadas, la mayoría de estás son párrafos enteros porque quedaba tonta con cada palabra.
“It’s the kind of kiss that closes a book. But this time, it doesn’t. This time, it’s only the beginning.”
Kat y Nathan no son perfectos, a veces me daban ganas de zarandearlos para que reaccionaran a lo que tenían enfrente, pero al final eso es lo que me gusta de este libro, las cosas no suceden de forma sencilla y ambos tienen que poner de su parte para llegar al punto clave de su historia.
“You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I'm half of everything and greater for it.”
Hoy me he enterado que existe el “writers-in-love trope” y ahora necesito más de esto. La historia me gustó muchísimo, me fascina mucho este trope donde los protagonistas se reúnen después de mucho tiempo sin saber del otro y van navegando entre sus historias del pasado y su presente. Me he vuelto muy fan de ver cómo los personajes van reconectando y redescubriendo momentos que en algún momento los hicieron felices (y toda la angustia y el peso del motivo por el que se separaron)
“I want to write our lives together, K. To make each of my days a page written in your hand. To craft the chapters of my future with you in every word. Because I’ve realized a life lived with you is the best story I could ever tell.”
Lo que más he disfrutado de este libro fue como los autores describían las emociones y pensamientos de los personajes, el hecho de que Nathan y Kat utilizaran su escritura como medio de comunicación hacía todo mucho más intenso. Tengo el libro con mil cosas subrayadas, la mayoría de estás son párrafos enteros porque quedaba tonta con cada palabra.
“It’s the kind of kiss that closes a book. But this time, it doesn’t. This time, it’s only the beginning.”
Kat y Nathan no son perfectos, a veces me daban ganas de zarandearlos para que reaccionaran a lo que tenían enfrente, pero al final eso es lo que me gusta de este libro, las cosas no suceden de forma sencilla y ambos tienen que poner de su parte para llegar al punto clave de su historia.
Convinced the authors just learned the word “prose” considering it was used no less than 20 times.
#OUACC Once Upon a Book Club February 2022 Box (Write Your Own Story)
#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary romance lighthearted
317 pages • first pub 2022 • 3.5 Stars
DESCRIPTION
They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down.
Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven’t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.
Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they’re forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they’d do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they’ve hated each other for the past three years isn’t easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.
While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.
#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary romance lighthearted
317 pages • first pub 2022 • 3.5 Stars
DESCRIPTION
They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down.
Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven’t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.
Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they’re forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they’d do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they’ve hated each other for the past three years isn’t easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.
While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.
slow-paced