A review by bottleblondebookworm
Unromance by Erin Connor

4.0

I had such a tun time with Unromance by Erin Connor, and I'm shocked it's a debut! It definitely gave me @jen.comfort.author vibes, and then I saw Jen blurbed the book so, look at me, intuiting well. Also, this is very high praise. I still think about Midnight Duet (JC’s book) almost daily. 

Unromance is a fun, trope filled, romp but not in the typical manner! Sawyer and Mason make a pact to ruin Mason's stars in his eyes, over the top, fall too fast, romantic side, and to inspire Sawyer's romance is dead, but l'm a romance author so l have to be romantic, writer side. If that makes any sense... it does in the book, trust me. But of course, this is a romance, friends!

Trying to ruin classic tropes like going to a Christmas tree farm and having a New Year's Eve kiss just isn't gonna work. Especially when it's two hopeless idiots who really wanna 💥each other and kinda also think the other is a super great person?! I loved it.

Slight spoiler, there is a third act break up, but it made sense for the characters, and I was surprisingly okay with it. Well, as okay with it as I’ll ever be. I think it could have been done a bit better (hence the 4 stars v 5) but it was still done in a way that I could appreciate and see the logic of, so maybe this should be 4.5 stars…idk. I loved the start of the book, but around the midpoint when the characters started fighting their feelings for each other, I got a bit tired and had to force myself to keep reading. After a few chapters I was back in it, but that one middle slog really hit and I think that’s what’s  holding me back from 5 stars. 

Also, Sawyer is so horny. It genuinely made me

laugh. I have multiple highlights and notes about said horniness that I'll maybe share later.

Thanks to @readforeverpub for the

complimentary e-arc. All opinions are my own.