Katherine Center has certainly found her voice, and it is seriously very funny, relatable and romantic. The Rom-Commers is a poignant love story about two emotionally damaged writers who have different opinions about what a love story should consist of as well as a love-hate relationship with the opposite sex. But, by reluctantly working together not only do they learn so much more about themselves, but each other and well, life.
Emma Wheeler is a writer. Unfortunately, not many people know this. You see, Emma is the primary caregiver of her father who was seriously injured years ago. Although she has a younger sister, she has chosen to take care of him so her sister can pursue her dreams. When Emma suddenly gets the opportunity of a lifetime to help a writer she has always admired work on a screenplay, a romcom no less, she says…no.
She feels like she can’t leave her father in her sister’s hands. She just knows something will happen. Her fear overpowers her ambition. But, when the two of them gang up on her she has no other choice but to go. How bad good it possibly be?
Charlie Yates is an every award winning writer. He has written many screenplays before, but never a romance. He thought he had done a great job, until he was told he hadn’t. He decides he doesn’t need any help and he will figure this out by himself. Until this woman named Emma knocks on his door.
Meanwhile, Emma realizes she has been bamboozled. The great Charlie Yates not only did not know she was coming but had never read anything by her! Initially, she decides to go home, but after some thought, Charlie realizes he probably could use “a little” help and convinces Emma to stay for one week only. Fine by her!
As Emma begins to realize Charlie knows nothing about writing a romance story or about love or even about happiness, she realizes he’s not exactly the man she had put on that pedastal. But why does he seem so damaged?
Emma decides she is going to stay as long as it takes to write the best romcom ever written. But convincing Charlie of what that looks like is not going so well. As they butt heads, they also each begin to see what they thought were flaws in each other, were really past traumas which were never resolved.
Will love conquer killing each other? We will see in this absolutely adorably smart, charmingly romantic novel, The Rom-Commers. You will want to stay and visit in Emma and Charlie’s wonderfully awkward delightful world.
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