The Rom-Commers

Author: Katherine Center
Title: The Rom-Commers
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 06/11/2024

Read Dates: 04/30/2024- 05/01/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

The Rom-Commers is a single-POV opposites attract romantic comedy. Emma, a writer who has had to put her dreams on hold to care for her father, is presented with an opportunity to work with her idol. Charlie, a well-respected screenwriter has written a truly terrible RomCom and reluctantly accepts Emma’s help to fix it. Despite clashing in the beginning, the two actually work really well together, surprising them both! 

Katherine Center has very quickly become an auto-buy author for me. Emma and Charlie were both alternatingly frustrating and likeable, so all around just very real! I loved this book, the banter between Emma and Charlie, the drama and angst, and of course the required HEA!

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

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?