Katie Caruso is a ghost writer for a best selling author Meredith Bradford, a job she absolutely loves - until she's assigned to writing her next book with Tyler McNally, her brother's best friend and the one who walked away.
Katie has kept her heart on lock since Tyler walked out of her life after her brother's funeral 9 years prior. Now, she's forced to live out the tropes of the book their writing while trying to keep her guard up. This book is SOOOO meta in the sense that two authors are writing a romance novel that mirrors their own romance, even with tropes we would never expect. I had mixed feelings admittedly about this set up and still do. I think the shortness of the chapters stunted the pacing for me, even though I understood why they were set up that. way (to cover tropes). It took me out that a chapter came to an end in a place I felt like a scene could be built upon.
For the characters themselves, I loved that Katie lived unapologetically herself. She loved bright colors and cutesy things and wasn't going to let any one diminish that. She looked for love in everything because she knew what it was like to not feel it. Tyler is your man who YEARNS. He's loved Katie for as long as he can remember but always felt that he didn't deserve it. He watched her be with another man when all he wanted was for it to be him. The son of an additct now sober, Tyler is the definition of if he wanted to he will. Seeing them come over their difference and back into one another's lives was lovely to read about.
Thank you so much to Netgalley and Avon for an eARC. All thoughts are honest and my own