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A review by mauryneiberg18
Love in the City by Jen Morris
3.0
Overall, a pleasant, if somewhat silly story and mostly well written, with a few plot/detail issues. I'd read her next book with the hopes that it will be better. The characters were likable, if a tad too obvious (a common problem with the genre, particularly in self-published romance novels).
The main “conflict” in this book was an obvious false dichotomy. No one could expect a writer to just stay single for a job. She might need to write as a single person and she might not be convincing, but part of being single is dating, so who would really care if all the dates were fictional or with the same person. That bit was just silly
A bigger problem is that this was clearly not written by someone who has lived in New York. Just the use of cabs alone is a tell. And no one who lives in New York would have planned an outing that started in the West Village with a first stop at Grand Central, then to Time Square and THEN to Rockefeller Center? And by cab? You’d spend all day in crosstown traffic! Plus, subway from Time Square to Rockefeller Center causes you to change trains at Grand Central! (Not to mention that no self-respecting New Yorker would want to hang out for fun in Time Square, not even with an out of town guest)
The main “conflict” in this book was an obvious false dichotomy. No one could expect a writer to just stay single for a job. She might need to write as a single person and she might not be convincing, but part of being single is dating, so who would really care if all the dates were fictional or with the same person. That bit was just silly
A bigger problem is that this was clearly not written by someone who has lived in New York. Just the use of cabs alone is a tell. And no one who lives in New York would have planned an outing that started in the West Village with a first stop at Grand Central, then to Time Square and THEN to Rockefeller Center? And by cab? You’d spend all day in crosstown traffic! Plus, subway from Time Square to Rockefeller Center causes you to change trains at Grand Central! (Not to mention that no self-respecting New Yorker would want to hang out for fun in Time Square, not even with an out of town guest)