This was such a great read! I loved it so much and just fell for all the characters. Center is such a great writer and just pulls you right in!

Katherine does it again—reeling me in hook, line, & sinker. This follows two people rewriting a romance, and while also changing the narrative of their own love stories. Emma dreams of being a screenwriter but is a full-time caregiver for her dad. When an opportunity to leave and work with her idol on a script, Charlie Yates, it seems like the perfect chance…but he is less than perfect and he doesn’t want to change his terrible romcom script. Six weeks to make a new script, they must work together and it’s not long before sparks are flying.
I loved reading this and falling for the characters. Katherine has such an endearing way of making love stories feel real and translate off the pages. The narrator did a great job of bringing Emma & Charlie’s stories to life.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and St Martin’s Press for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I received an ALC (Advanced Listener Copy) of this audiobook from NetGalley & Macmillan Audio.

3.5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐.5🎧

Emma has been taking care of her father since the accident, but now she has this exciting and prosperous experience ahead of her, and she needs to be brave enough to take it.

Her little sister comes home and is taking over their father's care so Emma can have this once-in-a-lifetime experience, which is ghostwriting with Charlie Frekaing Yates, a talented screenwriter who has won a lot, a lot of awards. But he has written a rom-com that, well, let's just say, should never see the light of day.

The thing is, he doesn't even care about the script, but his manager does, and he knows that the right person could help Charlie get back on track.
I loved the banter and the back-and-forth. I enjoyed the heck out of this book; it was fantastic. Emma is smart and witty, and if she would just believe in herself, she has so much to offer.

Charlie is just getting himself back after his health battle, the divorce, and the guinea pig custody. You will love these characters.

Now, here is where the book took a nosedive for me. The twist, if you will… It… did… not… have… to… happen… I said it!

I loved the narrator; I wish she had done the bonus scene, too.

A wonderful story of two people resting a screen play. One is a rom-com master and one is not. The retelling of their backstories is heart wrenching What unfolds is a story of two people who hold too much back and ignore the chemistry between them. Thank you #NetGalley for the audiobook. The narrator is amazing.

4.5 stars// I absolutely loved this book! Emma Wheeler put her life on hold to care for her dad after he and her mother suffered a terrible accident causing her mother to die and left her dad needing full time care. Charlie Yates is an award winning screenwriter who needs help fixing a rom-com he’s written so he can get another movie he really cares about produced. It’s a sort of “enemies to lovers” trope as they bicker about what love is, means, and how to express it, especially in a screenplay. They start working together to rewrite this screenplay and start to fall in love with each other too. It’s such a sweet and endearing story with some great quotes. The narrator was really great to listen to as well.

I will definitely recommend this to my book club once it’s out in June 2024! Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillion Audio for the ARC!

Emma is a screenwriter. Well, she wants to be a screenwriter, but life seems to keep getting in the way. It's fortunate that she has friends in high places though, because her old high school flame has just hooked her up with Hollywood's biggest screenwriter, Charlie, to help him finish his next movie. He's written a script for a romantic comedy, and it's absolutely awful. He needs her help, but the problem is, he doesn't want her help. At all.

Man, I really wanted to like this book but I didn't. I think the character development was really weak and the storyline for our two MC's doesn't really make any sense. You don't get a sense at all that these two are in love. Emma is fangirling her feelings for a celebrity, and Charlie just all of a sudden is madly in love with her? And the whole plotline for his cancer recurring? It's a miss for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this audiobook!

"Whatever story you tell yourself about your life, that's the one that will be true."

Oh how I loved every single second of this book. I wish I could go back to before I read it so I could experience it for the first time all over again. #KatherineCenter knocked this one out of the park and I could absolutely find myself clamoring for tickets for opening night if it ever made it to the big screen. If you love The Holiday and/or #EmilyHenry, come on over to the bright side of #TheRom-commers!

Thank you #netgalley and #MacMillanAudio for the BEST birthday month #arc ❤️.

This was my first Katherine Center novel and I definitely will be checking out her other novels.

The Rom-Commers is a fun grumpy sunshine story of two screen writers who are writing a rom com.
The banter of this was great between these two except for one thing. Emma’s comments on what her heart was doing got old real quick but luckily she had mentioned it three times ish and that was it.
This is not just a romance but goes into loss and anxiety while two flawed people fall in love.
Emma’s what is going on with my heart thing was annoying but luckily didn’t last through the whole book.
Emma’s sister was adorable and made me giggle quite a few times.

Thank you to Net Galley, Katherine Center and Macmillan Audio for this eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Feedback:
There was one part of the audio book towards the end where the TSA agent pulls the FMC aside and they were described as Black but I felt it was unnecessary and stuck out to me in a not so great way. Other than that, loved everything!


Review:
This fun Romcom about two writers writing a Rom-Com is so endearing and sweet. Katherine Center brings her signature style and leaves us with tons of uplifting quotes to keep in our pockets for a rainy day.

“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦.”

The MMC wasn’t really my cup of tea because I’m not a huge fan of Grumpy vs. Sunshine but KC wrote it in a subtle enough way that it didn’t have me hating him. Patti Murin did a fantastic job narrating this one!

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙂𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠!

THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center was perfectly swoony, perfectly wacky, and perfectly hard-hitting. How this author manages to make this combination of adjectives work in one singular book, I will truly never know.

First off I wanna say thank you to St. Martin's Press for providing me the arc of this book through netgalley.

This was my first book by Katherine Center and it was an absolute HIT. I got the audiobook, started it and finished it within about 2 days (honestly probably would've been sooner if I wasn't busy). Right off the bat, I had a good feeling about this book and I'm so glad it carried through the whole book. This book was a strong 5 stars without a doubt, the whole story just flowed so nicely and it had my attention throughout the whole thing.

moving onto the actual storyline: no words can describe how much I loved Emma and Charlie together but I will say THE WHIP LASH I experienced with them going back and forth, they like eachother, and then they don't, they do and they don't - it was alot but it was so worth it in the end. The vulnerability Charlie had when he shared his cancer story with Emma - tugged at the heart strings. They truly made a beautiful couple and an amazing story. They might've been strangers at first but the chemistry between them that developed throughout the story was just amazing.

The way Charlie swapped the script to be their story, changed the script so her name appears first, him sending Jack to sing for Emma's father, his final video to Emma - words cannot describe how much I loved this book truly.

"The reason I don't want to die is because I want more time with you" - Charlie
"I would write 100 happy endings for us if I could" - Charlie

needless to say, I really enjoyed this book. I'm so grateful for the chance to have it as a ARC and I will absolutely be recommending this to everyone.

thank you again!

Goodreads review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6381521936

Katherine Center does it again.

This novel, about a couple of screen writers, is in itself the perfect rom-com. The characters are real and relatable, the dialogue is honest and witty, and the story was a joy to read.

There's a reason this one already is at a 4.51 rating in Goodreads. Keep it up Katherine Center, will read literally anything you write!

A laugh out loud engaging romantic comedy. The writing was very clever and I couldn’t stop listening. I loved the concept of the behind the scenes writing a rom com. The characterization was done so well that I could imagine not only what they looked like, their mannerisms, and how they felt. It was great.

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

📖 Short Synopsis:
Emma Wheeler, a talented but unknown rom-com writer balancing caregiving for her father, seizes a career-changing opportunity to rewrite a script for her idol, Charlie Yates. Relocating to L.A. for six weeks, Emma confronts Charlie's skepticism about love and rom-coms, aiming to prove their value and ignite an unexpected romance. Their collaboration not only challenges Charlie's beliefs but also leads to a transformative journey of self-discovery and a reevaluation of fiction versus reality.

💭 Thoughts
I loved listening to this book. Emma is caring and down to earth. She cares deeply for her family and would do anything to make sure that her father and her sister do not miss out on anything. I also really enjoyed Charlie's character. He was grumpy at the beginnign but as the story progressed he grew to be a very loveable character. I laughed so many times while listening and did not want to stop. I had my headphones in and listened to this story every chance that I had.

This was my first book by Katherine Center and it most definitely won't be my last.

📝 angst
📝 enemy to lovers
📝 opposites attract
📝 career vs personal life

Thank you9 to NetGalley for the advanced copy to listen and review this title in exchange for my honest feedback.

I loved The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center. The characters had great banter and an inconvenience to love back and forth. I enjoyed that their hardships brought them together and all of the side characters were a great addition to the trajectory of the plot.
I loved that Jack Stapleton was also in this book, I love a cross-book character mention.
Overall, this book was really good and is a great rom-com!

This story follows Emma, who is working as a teacher in Texas taking care of her ill father while dreaming of becoming a screenwriter, when her ex boyfriend, a Hollywood agent, sets her up to help ghost write a romcom with his client, Charlie, a famous screenwriter. Charlie of course doesn’t believe in love and Emma very much does.

The setup was pretty similar to Emily Henry’s Beach Read one of my favorite books, and for the first half I was really loving the vibes, but at about 50% the two main characters were still mostly just bantering back and forth and not having any real deep conversations, there were a few revelations here and there but they both had trouble being honest with each other which was frustrating and, for me ,made it hard to root for them.

Overall this was an enjoyable story if you like romance with a little family drama as a side story I would recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and MacMillan Audio for the advance copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

This was so, so good! I might have a new fav author on my hands. This is book should go down in writers’ history as the handbook to banter. 🧑‍🍳💋 So. Good. This felt like a light story, the kind that makes your heart smile, while simultaneously navigating very real and heavy topics with grace. There’s such an effortlessness to Center’s writing in this book. I’m very impressed.

Patti Murin hit a home run, over the fence out of the park (semi “It Takes Two” quote here. Please don’t talk baseball with me. I’ll fail.) with this narration. She embodied this book. Incredible listen from start to finish.

I am absolutely going to dig into Center’s and Murin’s backlogs. I am an instant fan of both!

audiobook ARC: thank you NetGalley, Kathrine Center and Macmillan audio

As usual, Katherine Center does it again! Her books do not miss. Though I was a little skeptical at first - it gave e similar vibes to Book Lovers and i was not a huge fan of that. Also, she does a really good job of making the MMC unlikeable - too good. He was infuriating. But his redemption was good and even had me rooting for him in the end, Emma was a great FMC. She had her insecurities nand fears, but she let her priorities and her passion for others always win when it came to her decisions. The banter in this book was so cute, and I always truly enjoy the narrator engaging directly to the reader. As always, forever recommending Katherine Center and all of her books.

Also, her voice is made for narrating. Though it can go either way when it comes to aN author narrating their own books - she nailed it! They were here words and she did a great job bringing them to life.

This was adorable. I loved the set up, the characters, I loved that they actually got to know each other and it wasn't insta love. I loved the heartache of their time apart and that Jack Stapleton makes an appearance.

I loved this book it was so fun! Such a sweet book with great characters, a cute romance, and some good laughs. Katherine Center has done it again!