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sophia_sol) wrote2021-10-03 03:45 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2021-10-03 03:45 pm
While We Were Dating, by Jasmine Guillory
I've found Guillory to be a reliable writer of romance novels that I will enjoy. This is her latest!
An advertising executive and a movie star meet for work reasons, are delighted by how decent and also competent a person the other is, and also find each other deeply attractive. When the ad exec helps out the movie star in a family emergency, they inevitably bang it out, and from there become closer and closer, including a stint of pretending to be in a relationship.
A fun and very readable book, with two main characters who are both very good at being personable and charismatic to the world, and who both have issues they are actively working on in therapy.
I liked that it didn't go into the terrible misunderstandings direction many romance novels would have (some part of me feared that where the half sister subplot was going was that the movie star would see pics of the ad exec getting coffee with an unknown woman and think he was together with her, but it WASN'T), and they actually were just like, open and honest with each other to the fullest extent they felt able to be.
With all that said, I'm actually not sure why I didn't feel particularly emotionally engaged with this book. It was doing many things right! Usually I find myself caring a lot about Guillory's characters and their relationships! But I felt kind of distanced from this one. Like, it was pleasant, but I wasn't invested, you know?
Ah well, not every book lands perfectly, and I still trust Guillory as a writer so will keep on giving her future works a try.
An advertising executive and a movie star meet for work reasons, are delighted by how decent and also competent a person the other is, and also find each other deeply attractive. When the ad exec helps out the movie star in a family emergency, they inevitably bang it out, and from there become closer and closer, including a stint of pretending to be in a relationship.
A fun and very readable book, with two main characters who are both very good at being personable and charismatic to the world, and who both have issues they are actively working on in therapy.
I liked that it didn't go into the terrible misunderstandings direction many romance novels would have (some part of me feared that where the half sister subplot was going was that the movie star would see pics of the ad exec getting coffee with an unknown woman and think he was together with her, but it WASN'T), and they actually were just like, open and honest with each other to the fullest extent they felt able to be.
With all that said, I'm actually not sure why I didn't feel particularly emotionally engaged with this book. It was doing many things right! Usually I find myself caring a lot about Guillory's characters and their relationships! But I felt kind of distanced from this one. Like, it was pleasant, but I wasn't invested, you know?
Ah well, not every book lands perfectly, and I still trust Guillory as a writer so will keep on giving her future works a try.
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Is it perhaps because it was so low-conflict? I just read a (long) fic this weekend that should have been really lovely...but there wasn't quite enough emotional heft to it to really care.
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