Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian-American who has grown up without strong ties to her culture, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her arch-nemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre, or for Rosie.
Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must co-write a novel that blends their genres.
The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and as they slowly get to know each other, they try to put their differences aside. Meanwhile, their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other.
When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.
REVIEW
In full transparency... I didn't expect to like it that much. Honestly, it was a classic rom-com, but there was something about Aiden that resonate in me. Both Aiden and Rosie personnality were strong. They have their own ideas and opinions, they are creative but differently. They are both heat-headed and they are perfect for each other, because they complete the flaws they have.
Aiden isn't a romantic and I liked his point of view in his writting. Why romance novels need to ends happily ever after? Yes, that's the point of a love story, but could a love story end without Cinderella marrying the prince ? Because we're human and humans lives normals lives and shits happens in life. And yes, it's a book and it's made for dreaming, but what if ! What. if. And Aiden's down to earth personnality, but also a bit of trauma he didn't work on, helped Rosie see things differently.
And this is why, I think, I loved that book so much. They just worked great together even if they are rivals, nemesis and think they have such opposite personnalities. They do good by working together. I honestly wanted to read their book !
But, the parts of their book written inside of the book made it felt repetitive. Also, I read it in audiobook and sometimes it was hard to know if it was Hunter and Maxine (hope I remembered their name right) or Rosie and Aiden. It was also predictable, but in a nice way. Because of the bittering going on, the in and out and in and out constantly, I just wished they just confess and fuck and finish the book. So it being predictable helped my dear soul with the distancing moment these stupid characters were having.
I also have to mention one thing. One important thing. I hate smut. For real, I'm always getting cringe when a sex scene comes up because it's rarely well written. Female authors have the tendancy to exagerate things which doesn't make the scene erotic, just weird. But lord. This book.... this book might have the most realistic, nicest, sexiest sex scene I have ever read. I'm saying it, it turned me on. I had pictures in my head, I knew what was going on, I could almost feel it. It was intense and I loved it, very much. So here's me saying on the internet that I was turn on by sex scene in a novel, but oh well. I was both glad and disappointed to not have a man in my appartment at that time honestly.
Anyways, for a debut novel, seriously, it was good. It had everything I hoped, everything I wished and more. It was well written and everything was just great.
If you love good rom-coms, this book is for you.
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