The Rom-Commers
A Novel
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4.4 • 33 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?
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 L.A. for six 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 doesn’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?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There’s love and laughs bouncing around at every angle in Katherine Center’s funny, bighearted novel. Rom-com-obsessed struggling screenwriter Emma gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend six weeks in L.A. working with her idol, big-time action-film writer Charlie Yates. Charlie couldn’t care less about love stories, fictional or real, and the romantic comedy gig he’s taken just for the cash fits him like a six-fingered glove. At first, Emma finds herself and her ideas for the script are about as welcome as a migraine attack. But when she starts giving Charlie a crash course in the mechanics of romance, the real thing just might flare up. Center obviously shares Emma’s deep devotion to the rom-com, and the sparklingly barbed banter between Emma and Charlie would make Hepburn and Tracy proud. But this is no fluff fest—both characters’ backstories have some heavy baggage, giving the romantic fizz just the right contrast. Get ready to fall in love with love and have a giggle fit along the way.
Customer Reviews
comfort read
I’m fairly certain I’ve read this every 6 months since its release. It is the ultimate feel good story for me. A sweet, quick read with lots of heart 🖤
So much promise, then flailed
It started out with so much promise! I was hooked, but then it sort of flailed all over the place, from one cliché scene to the next, hot and cold, leaving me very confused- it was literally everything the FMC criticized about the MFC’s poor script. I was confused for most of it as to where the character development was- and I didn’t feel like I ever saw their emotional journey.
My favourite book
Just wonderfully beautiful!