Tropesick
A gorgeous, sweeping, forced-proximity second-chance love story
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- Vorbestellbar
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- Erwartet am 18. Juni 2026
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- CHF 6.50
Beschreibung des Verlags
*BRING BACK MEN WHO YEARN*
'Prepare to be swept off your feet' B.K. Borison
'This one is special, and I'm going to think about it forever, probably' Lyla Sage
When romance-novel obsessed ghost writer Katie Caruso waits in a New York City café to meet her next writing partner, the last person in the world she expects to see is Tyler McNally.
Ivy League-educated, aspiring literary fiction novelist and verified yearner Tyler McNally. Handsome, sleeve-tattooed, nine-years-sober Tyler McNally. And, unforgettably, her very own childhood sweetheart, Tyler McNally. The pair haven't seen each other since the death of Katie's older brother. Tyler was her brother's best friend and Katie - naturally - was the girl next door.
But despite both their bitter complaints at the reunion, the agent who hired them won't let them off the job. Soon, they're working on their co-written romance novel in forced proximity, and finding that isn't the only written trope that's coming to life. . .
This fresh, playful and deeply romantic novel openly acknowledges the role of tropes - before nonetheless going on to use them to tell a searing love story of it's own...
READERS LOVE LAUREN OKIE
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The longing, the hope, the heartbreak, the love - it was just beautiful!'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐' I enjoyed every page'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I could not put this book down'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A truly gifted and heartbreakingly honest writer'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I read it in one sitting'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There are multiple layers of metafictionality to this clever romance about romance from Okie (The Best Worst Thing). Katie Caruso makes a perfectly good living ghostwriting for the famously reclusive romance author Meredith Bradford. However, the latest project comes with a wrinkle: thanks to tight deadlines, Katie has been assigned to work with a partner. This turns out to be literary fiction author Tyler McNally—Katie's deceased older brother's best friend and her former crush. Despite their rocky history, the two agree to work together on Meredith's next book, a trope-filled love letter to Southampton. As their project proceeds, Katie and Tyler experience the very tropes woven into their plot (which, as it happens, is also about authors), each explicitly called out by Okie and her characters. Their "grumpy/sunshine," "brother's best friend," and "girl next door" dynamics lead to a classic "second-chance romance" that ramps up a notch when circumstances necessitating they both take up residence in Meredith's luxurious estate leave them in "forced proximity." There's a late twist about Meredith that many readers will predict, and all the fourth-wall breaking can get to be a lot, but Katie and Tyler's chemistry is undeniable as they work through lingering grief and trauma to arrive at a predictable but satisfying destination. Fans of the growing self-referential rom-com subgenre will want to check this out.
