I really enjoyed reading Under Your Spell by this author, so I was exited to read this next book. While it wasn’t quite as great as Under Your Spell, it was still enjoyable to read. It had the tropes of enemies to lovers, fake relationship, and second chance romance. I appreciated how much growth the characters showed during the book, including sub characters too.

Let’s Make a Scene is pure rom-com magic with a wink and a skip in its step. Laura Wood delivers a story that’s as fizzy as champagne and twice as sweet, with characters you’ll want to group hug immediately (even the dramatic ones).

It’s got all the swoon-worthy theatrics of a stage play and all the heartbeats of real life—the kind of book that has you grinning at the page and kicking your feet under the covers. The banter sparkles, the chemistry crackles, and the romance? Oh, it performs in the best way possible.

This is a love letter to drama kids, hopeless romantics, and anyone who’s ever blushed their way into something wonderful. With wit, warmth, and a flair for the fabulous, Laura Wood reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones we stumble into—and that love, like a great scene, is all about timing, trust, and a little bit of glitter.

Absolutely adorable, effortlessly clever, and completely stage-worthy.

Enemies-to-Lovers with a touch of glitz and glamour? Sign me up! What starts as a clash of personalities and worlds transforms into a super cute story with layers that add real emotional depth.

I cannot get enough Enemies-to-Lovers books (and add in a celebrity - say no more!) Loved the dual POV from Cynthia and Jack. Super cute story and actually had some depth to the story (along with the fun bits in between!)

Laura Wood really is just one of my favourite authors right now. The tension and heat, the wittiness and banter, the sweetness and vulnerability, all the things that make romance such a joy to read, she just hits those beats perfectly every time. And with this book, you can really tell that she has written the book she would want to read. The iconic pop culture references -- Bill Pullman in While You Were Sleeping, the Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling kiss at the MTV movie awards, the Dirty Dancing lift, for example -- were so fun! She's just like me for real because I also spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about them. I loved Cynthie so much (and I loved seeing Theo and his wife Clemmie again)!

Oh my GOSH!!! Cynthie and Jack's story was precious and perfect, we love a good second chance romance, reluctant lovers--and this was EVERYTHiNG!

I enjoy a good romcom and I just finished a good one. Lets Make a Scene by Laura Wood comes out this summer. Pick it up.

Let's Make a Scene is an absolute joy of a romcom with rivals to lovers will have readers swooning and eating this book right up!

I loved this book. I thought this story was so fun, charming, witty and steamy and had all the perfect components to craft a great romance. Two actors that can't stand each other and forced to work together and fall in love? Sign me up! I love it already. Cynthie and Jack had some of the funnest and steamiest chemistry. I absolutely love banter and bickering and theres so much of it that it makes you giddy as you read it because you know they are about to fall hard. I loved the forced proximity and workplace romance and mixed with some film? Oh it was so good and a page turner. I couldnt put it down and a must read to the lovers of romcoms that feel like a Hugh grant movie that will have you swooning!

I LOVE A famous person trope SO much!! From the start I was instantly intrigued by the characters and story line. I love a dual POV, the character development was okay but not my favorite. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot!

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.


This was an adorable enemies to lovers, second chance romance. It's told during the present as well as flashbacks to 13 years in the past. Our MMC and FMC were both working together on a film set as the leads in a regency film, and even though they begin by having an insane attraction to one another, and playing harmless pranks on each other, they quickly begin to loathe one another, and are pretty much forced into fake dating while on the publicity tour for the film. Present day sees us with the same two people who have never been able to stop thinking about one another, and are not presented with the opportunity to make a sequel to their first film. Just like before, they're asked to pretend to be together for the press, and that quickly turns to a lot of fessing up about their actual feelings, and we really get to see how their love story has unfolded over all that time. It was such a sweet book, with just the right amount of spicy scenes.

I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! It is so rare to find romance book like this that manages to be sexy, fun, and still have depth. The tension between Cynthia and Jack is PALPABLE. You can FEEL it through the pages. This was so good.

First time reading a book by this author and I loved it! An enemies to lovers story , fake dating, and characters with off the charts chemistry. Definitely a great read for the summer!

I really enjoyed Wood's first book, "Under Your Spell," and "Let's Make a Scene" held up to the standard Wood has set for herself-- this was a great book!

I particularly liked how the book considered both Cynthie and Jack's points of view, giving us their thoughts and reasons for acting as they do throughout the story. I also enjoyed the flashbacks throughout the story; it made it much more interesting to learn about Cynthie and Jack's past (yay for showing rather than telling!). Wood knows her craft and writes witty dialogue, realistic action, and strong characters. I can't wait for more books from her!

I was lucky enough to get an ARC of this delight of a book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s far more than a romance, but incorporates the film industry, familial pressures and legacies, a 13 year relationship built with flashbacks and drama, the importance of making our own circle of support, and so much humor! It’s so well done with two first person POV narration, both in past and present, and the fake relationships on set and “real life” are well done. Cinderella meets nepotism meets reality is so well done in this book! Highly recommend!

This was cute overall but I kind of got tired from the back and forth timelines. The pacing also felt slow, but again maybe that's due to the different timelines. The characters did have growth which I appreciated but I liked the author's first book better.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Atria Books and Netgalley for this eARC, these opinions are my own. Such a cute story! Told in dual timelines when Cynthie and Jack first met they are playing on screen lovers. Behind the scenes they don’t get along. Unfortunately the studio wants to play at their chemistry and asks them to pretend to date. When the move ends they are happy to go their separate ways. Now 13 years later the studio wants to film a sequel and they want them to star their fake romance again. But can they get past their dislike for one another? The more time they spend together the more they’ll see that they aren’t who they once were. Could something fake become something real? A sweet hilarious story, with lots of fun witty banter between the two! This book had great character development and growth between the two timelines! If you like fake dating second change romances then I highly recommend Laura Wood’s Let’s Make a Scene!

I really loved Wood's adult debut last 'Under Your Spell', so I was excited to see what her sophomore novel would bring. Sadly, 'Let's Make a Scene' did not work for me on two fronts:

1) I did not like Jack as a Hero. From our first introduction of him in the '13 Years Ago' timeline, he comes off entitled and stuck-up and I, much like Cynthie, couldn't stand him. Still, I was willing to give him a chance and wait for her 'present day' POV, but I did not see any growth in that man that made him worth Cynthie's time or energy.

2) Had I know this was a story told in two timelines, I wouldn't have requested it as that's a narrative structure that doesn't work for me most of the time. I gave it a try all the same, but I really didn't care about the '13 Years Ago' chapters, and it takes up half of the story.

Other readers won't have the same issues I did here, and Wood's talent still shown through despite my complaints.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for the ARC!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this e-arc for an honest review!

Gosh I could not put this book down. It was so cute! The story was filled with pop culture references which I loved, playful banter, sparks flying, trust issues, and hitting topics about what a family is. I really really liked how both main characters had areas that they had learn about to show growth. This showed me it's realness of their characters.

I did giggle at parts of how Cynthie and Jack interacted along with feeling my heartstrings being pulled a bit when they had to cope with some issues. I even giggled at some parts as well. It was such a good heartfelt story!

The book does flip back and forth from the past to the present about Cynthie and Jack. Enemies to friends to lovers is the key points in this story also. I feel like it also gave a little nod to Jane Austen.

Definitely adding this book to my collection!

This was…alright. I found the pacing a bit slow and it was a bit hard for me to get through. I did enjoy the romance though and Jack is a really good MMC. The side characters were also fleshed out well and the plot was good.

I thoroughly enjoyed this from start to finish. I loved the main characters but also appreciated how the author made so many of the supporting characters interesting and engaging. Great dialogue and banter that was genuinely funny and not annoying. The plot twists and problems made sense and didn't stem from anyone doing something ridiculous or totally out of character. Am going to hunt down other books by this author. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.