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This was super cute! I had been avoiding romance for a while and focusing more on the fantasy books, slash re-reading Discworld and others, but this kicked off a romance binge. It's a debut novel, and we have a romance novelist who is suffering from writer's block, and an actor who falls in love at the drop of a hat. There's a bit of grumpy-sunshine, and a bit of fake dating, but really this book is a send up of tropes.
Now, I normally don't love this because the things about tropes is, we all know romance novels run on tropes. If there is a trip, there will be only one bed. If there is an ex, they will show up at a bad time. etc, etc. The point is not to bemoan the tropes and ask for a new plot lines (although sometimes it is!) but the POINT is to see the trope done well. Fake dating only works if there is real tension as the characters fall for each other. So when we have this type of book, that combines a bunch of tropes but breezes past the details and the tension, it doesn't always work.
But overall, this book really worked for me! I think a lot of it is because it's not really about the tropes, so instead we see this weird fake dating-ish tension build instead between two people who keep insisting they are not right for each other, or it's not the right time.
Plus sexy scenes
Now, I normally don't love this because the things about tropes is, we all know romance novels run on tropes. If there is a trip, there will be only one bed. If there is an ex, they will show up at a bad time. etc, etc. The point is not to bemoan the tropes and ask for a new plot lines (although sometimes it is!) but the POINT is to see the trope done well. Fake dating only works if there is real tension as the characters fall for each other. So when we have this type of book, that combines a bunch of tropes but breezes past the details and the tension, it doesn't always work.
But overall, this book really worked for me! I think a lot of it is because it's not really about the tropes, so instead we see this weird fake dating-ish tension build instead between two people who keep insisting they are not right for each other, or it's not the right time.
Plus sexy scenes