I bugged Shannon to start reading this book for at least a month because I knew she would love it as much as I did. And I couldn’t wait to talk to her about the zillion different things I loved about this novel.
When she finally caved and started reading The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center, she started texting me pictures of different lines of the book she had circled because they were SO good and so worthy of highlighting.
If you’re the kind of person who watches her favorite rom-com movies on repeat and still loves it every time, this is the book you should read next. It is a love letter to the entire rom-com genre, and I hope it ends up becoming a movie so I can read AND watch it on repeat.
Title: The Rom-Commers
Author: Katherine Center
What it’s about (without spoilers):
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates―The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!―it’s a break too big to pass up.
Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone―much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script―it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter―even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules―and comes true?
What other rom-com authors are saying:
Emily Henry said “Katherine Center’s books are like a hug.”
Reviews: This book gets a 4.4 (out of 5) star rating on Amazon with more than 11,688 ratings posted. It has more than 119,000 ratings posted on Goodreads.
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