Book: The Rom Commers

 Book: The Rom Commers

Author: Katherine Center

Pages: 325

This is my 209th read for the year

What Amazon says:

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies - good ones!  That win contests!  But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care.  Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates - The Charlie Yates!  Her personal writing god! - it's a break too big to pass up.  Emma's younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to LA for 6 weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime.  But what is it they say?  Don't meet your heroes?  Charlie Yates doesn't want to write with anyone - much less "a failed, nobody screenwriter".  Worse, the romantic comedy he's written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse.  Plus!  He doens't even care about the script - it's just a means to get a different one green-lit.  Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.  But Emma's not going down without a fight.  She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself.  She will convince him that love stories matter - even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it.  But what if that kiss is accidentally amazing?  What if real life turns out to be so much - more real than fiction?What if the love story they're writing breaks all Emma's rules - and comes true?

Ridiculous story and completely unbelievable.  Seriously - a really famous writer just invites this girl in?  And has a "real life"?  Come on.  Think James Cameron.  IF you read this book - would you think that someone like James Cameron has a life like Charlie Yates?  No.  No he does not.  And I have a family friend who has Meniere's disease and she lives a very full life.  She is independent, travels (even abroad), and does not need to be watched 24/7.  That was the most ridiculous part.

Stars: 2