The Rom-Commers was one of my most anticipated books of the year. After falling in love with The Bodyguard, a few years ago, I took a deep dive into all of Katherine Center’s books and have never once been disappointed. She has a way of creating a world of hope and love amidst hardship and the Rom-Commers fits perfectly with her other works.
Emma Wheeler and Charlie Yates have led very different lives. While both love screen writing, Charlie is wildly successful and Emma had family difficulties that forced her to put her career on the back burner. Despite Emma’s circumstances, she has never stopped believing in the power of an amazingly written love story, which Charlie prefers to focus on the darkness of the world. Their worlds collide after a series of events forces them both out of their comfort zones.
Charlie and Emma are both brilliantly written. Their backstories bring them to life both individually and together. Each of them maintain their own personalities that are the culmination of each of their experiences, but when they are together, they bring to light eachother’s strengths in a way that lights up the pages. The heavy topics that are threaded throughout the story are treated with respect by both author and characters.
It was great fun to watch all the tropes that book lovers follow so closely come to life in characters who are writers themselves. Seeing these tropes through the eyes of screenwriters was a fun way to understand why readers love different tropes so much. There are so many tropes in this book and I would love to go through all of them, but that would ruin the experience.
5/5 stars for a book that was so much fun to read from start to finish.
Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
The Novel Llama 