![]() What happens to them? They dumped by boyfriends who go to some rural or small town place, meet someone, and realize “what matters.” This is precisely what happens (and has happened before). The story opens with Nora getting dumped while explaining to the reader that in the world of romantic comedy tropes, she is the icy, business-super-focused New York-loving person. ![]() The warmth and affection for romance and the people who love it is palpable. The lead characters, especially Nora, reference romance authors, tropes, archetypes, and specific books, so if you like romance-specific literary cameos, dive on in. It was a very enthusiastic one.Ĭontinuing with the “if this book were a person” motif, this novel would be friends with all the romance readers. If Book Lovers were a person, it would probably be wearing a t-shirt that read, “I am your catnip, Sarah,” and would politely ask if it could hug me.īecause this narrative simultaneously operates on a “telling me a story” level, and on a “people in the book are editing another book” level, and on a “this book knows exactly what kind of book it is” level, I felt extremely safe and welcomed. ![]() When the opening pages of a book demonstrate the writer’s deep fluency and familiarity with romance tropes, even by being extremely meta about it, it’s a signal for me that I can trust the book I’m reading to fulfill the expectations I have. ![]()
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