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The Roughest Draft
by Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka
This book felt layered like an onion in the best of writerly ways, proving that no matter whether we intend to or not, as writers and as people, we embed ourselves and our feelings into the works we read and write.
The story essentially boils down to two writers who are unable to communicate their feelings anywhere else but on the pages, and the characters they write. In fact, this is (to some extent) what gets the main characters, Nathan and Katrina, into trouble in the first place, during the writing retreat which “shall not be talked about.” Unable to speak as bluntly about their feelings due to fear, circumstances, or any number of excuses the characters come up with, they fall in love again on the page, both with writing and with one another.
It was a sweet, drawn-out dramatic, and Taylor Swift’s “Evermore” album hits played in the background of my mind the entire time I was reading it.
I appreciated the prose, the way metaphors and similes went on to create a richer story and how we watch the characters’ dynamics unfold as readers, juxtaposing how they were in the past, and how they are now, in the present. With its formatting of past and present, it reminded me a bit of Emily Henry’s “People We Meet on Vacation” with a bit of a different pacing.
Overall, I enjoyed this book for what it ended up being, rather than what I expected of it. Nevertheless, it truly was “a romance for the books.”
The story essentially boils down to two writers who are unable to communicate their feelings anywhere else but on the pages, and the characters they write. In fact, this is (to some extent) what gets the main characters, Nathan and Katrina, into trouble in the first place, during the writing retreat which “shall not be talked about.” Unable to speak as bluntly about their feelings due to fear, circumstances, or any number of excuses the characters come up with, they fall in love again on the page, both with writing and with one another.
It was a sweet, drawn-out dramatic, and Taylor Swift’s “Evermore” album hits played in the background of my mind the entire time I was reading it.
I appreciated the prose, the way metaphors and similes went on to create a richer story and how we watch the characters’ dynamics unfold as readers, juxtaposing how they were in the past, and how they are now, in the present. With its formatting of past and present, it reminded me a bit of Emily Henry’s “People We Meet on Vacation” with a bit of a different pacing.
Overall, I enjoyed this book for what it ended up being, rather than what I expected of it. Nevertheless, it truly was “a romance for the books.”