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
