Read this if you like:
•fantastic banter
•laughing out loud
•workplace romance
•opposites attract

This book was such a joy to read. I laughed, I teared up, I was swooning. Emma & Charlie are so great. Both of them have pasts that make them cautious for the future but oh my goodness this book was fun. Please preorder immediately!

Thank you SMP for eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 5/5
Warnings: death of a parent, parent with an illness, cancer, divorce, caretaker fatigue
Steam: 1/5
Tropes: workplace, sudden roomie, grumpy/sunshine

Thank you to SMP Romance for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Can I say WOW any louder? Katherine Center always gets me majorly in my feels and this book was no exception. I can't wait to own this book!

Things I loved: This book not only made me laugh out loud and I even cried. The one-liners were hysterical. Charlie was a complete grump and Emma was pure sunshine. I love that the complimented each other well. There was so much growth in these characters. The guinea pig. The cooking and grocery shopping. All of their research dates for the script. all the grand gestures and truly the epilogue was perfect.

The only thing I don't love and the cover...it does feel like the book to me.

I laughed. I cried. I felt it all. Katherine Center’s best book yet!!

Synopsis: When Emma Wheeler gets the opportunity to re-write a script for Charlie Yates, the screenwriter she has idolized for years, she knows she cannot pass on the opportunity. When they start working together, she quickly learns that the man working on a rom com doesn't believe in love or love stories, and the only way to fix this terrible scrip is to convince him otherwise.

What I loved:
-The humor! KC sprinkled in some of the best one-liners in this one
-The way parts of the story tugged on my heartstrings. It's rare for me to ever cry in a book, especially romance, but it happened in this one
-How Emma and Charlie were complete opposites. He was the grumpiest. She was full of sunshine. Yet they could not complement each other more perfectly.
-All the swoony scenes in the story that were "research" for the script
-The pet guinea pig!
-The double grand gesture at the end

And so much more!!

Thank you SMP for the ARC! Pub 6/11/24