All tagged Romcom
Written in the Stars is a clever, fizzy rom-com that’s pure pleasure to read and easily joins the constellation of my 2020 favorites. It winks at Bridget Jones's Diary and Pride and Prejudice in broad characterizations but very much charts it's own path as a thoroughly modern sapphic romance full of wit, humor and heat.
I appreciate a romance novel that takes a broad view of happily ever after and attends to the personal and professional growth of its main characters in tandem with the developing romance. The Boyfriend Project does this well and offers an accessible entry point to readers who enjoy women's fiction but haven't been reading much romance.
It is very much Samiah's book, and the early pages focus solidly on the female relationships in her life: a close bond with her snarky/sweet sister and the birth of a great girl squad. The hilarious confrontation gone viral that brings the squad together rivals any romance meet cutes I've read.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to string words together in the shadow of its excellence so just consider this me sounding my enthusiastic yawp of approval for a book that invites you to laugh, cry, & remember that we're each worthy of love & celebration for exactly who we are.
An opposites attract, fake dating romance, Boyfriend Material sparkles with all the wit, banter, & tropey goodness of favorite 90s romcoms but none of the gender stereotyping or heteronormativity that can diminish their shine.
Margaret Atwood, in her Masterclass intro, smiles gleefully into the camera, “…Little Red Riding Hood. Let’s start the story a different way: ‘It was dark inside the wolf.’”
You Deserve Each Other employs this delightfully disorienting sensibility with a clever twist on the enemies to lovers trope. Here, lovers have become enemies as the romcom begins in the darkness of a relationship spiraling toward self-destruction.
