Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson Fiction for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.
This book was adorable. Two-person love triangles are my favorite trope (think You’ve Got Mail)- angst with a HEA? Yes please! – and this one was about books! So what is not to love? I just sped through this book in one sitting. We’re talking “I forgot to eat dinner and 4 hours went by” sped through this. This comes out the day after Valentine’s day (February 15th) and it is a great addition to any romance books you want to read this month. Key facts about this book: it has a small independent publishing house, an editor who wants to be a writer, and a mysterious editor of her manuscript. It has some hilarious lines, and it pulls off the trope so well – without any of the creepy things that this can normally have. I was highlighting so many lines as I read because I was laughing at them, things like: “Sam, who took a week’s vacation last year to go to Branson, Missouri. Branson, Missouri.” and “‘The public’s attention is not on the great harmonica players of the nineteenth century.’ ‘Then we draw their attention to it. That is our duty. We create a culture. We enrich society.'” Maybe these kinds of lines aren’t funny to other people but they definitely were making me giggle!
Was the main character kinda dumb at times? Sure. Would a lot of this have been solved if people just talked to each other? Absolutely. But it was a fun, sweet read that made me feel good when I needed exactly that. Flawed characters in a realistic sense, with a HEA/HFN, about books. What more could I have wanted?! 4.75/5