StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors
Felicity “Fizzy” Chen loves her life and career as a romance writer. The problem is that she’s suffering from a bad case of writers’ block, and when she’s asked about her personal life in interviews or author panels, it’s not like she can confess to never actually having been in love, right? A romance writer should surely have experienced romantic love at some point? With all of her friends happily coupled up, she’s also getting pretty tired of her casual dating lifestyle.
Connor Prince is a divorced documentary film maker whose boss orders him to create a successful reality TV dating show, or he’ll get fired. Losing his job would force him to move, and that would mean not seeing his daughter very often, which is an unacceptable option, in his eyes. After a run-in with Fizzy, he’s pretty sure he has the perfect pitch – one of the reigning queens of romance finding her own Prince Charming. Fizzy is fairly unimpressed when she first meets him (it’s clear that he has very litte understanding or respect for romance novels as a genre, and he clearly hasn’t read a single one of her books), and sends him an absolutely ludicrous list of demands. He agrees to pretty much all of them, and suddenly, Fizzy is about to become a reality TV star.
Before the show can start filming, they need to locate a suitable selection of dates for Fizzy, and she has insisted that the various “romance heroes” represent many of the tropes found in the genre. She also discovers that her first impression of Connor, as a money hungry media guy couldn’t be further from the truth, and as she spends more time with him during pre-production of the show, it becomes clear that no matter how many charming men the production team manage to scrounge up – her ideal man may in fact be the one whose career depends on her finding happiness with another guy.
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