Unromance by Erin Connor is not the first modern romance I've read recently about a romance writer (or other writer) who dates a celebrity. Despite its common wish-fulfilment-for-the-author plot, Unromance is charming and engaging.
Heroine Sawyer is a romance writer with writer's block brought on by a bad breakup. She has a meet-cute with hero Mason, a famous actor who is currently in the tabloids for getting dumped, again. After a one-night stand, they bump into each other and decide they can help each other out -- by reenacting all the biggest romance tropes from romcoms and not falling for each other. Spoiler: it doesn't work.
But to get it to not work, Sawyer and Mason each have to realize that they need to work on themselves before they can be in a successful relationship. Sweetly, they each find help from exes who are willing to tell them the truth about themselves. Sawyer needs to find the courage to share more of herself. Mason has to find the wisdom to back off. I loved how their character development meshed.
The only thing that didn't make much sense to me about this book was Sawyer's devotion to staying in Chicago -- an important plot point because Mason needs to move to LA for work. Sawyer is not from Chicago, she doesn't have many friends there, she is self-employed and works from home, and I never got the sense that there was anything particularly compelling to her about the city. She just kept saying, "My life is here." Maybe? But this was a conflict that added nothing to the plot. Other than that, no notes.
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