Dear authors: please stop writing in present tense. I hate it.
That said, I didn’t hate this book. I wish it hadn’t been written in present tense, but whatever. I’ll let that go. Mostly.
Jane is a former child star turned… I’m not really sure. Is she a movie producer? It’s unclear. She works at a production company and does something with getting movies made. I’ll admit that either it wasn’t explicit in the book or I wasn’t paying attention, or more likely, I don’t really understand how movie jobs work.
Anyway, she wants to get a movie made, a love story, naturally. She is so desperate to get this movie made that she lets it slip that she’s “friends” with Jack Quinland, the biggest pop star in the world, and of course she’ll just get him to do the soundtrack for the movie. Except she hasn’t talked to Jack since she was 15 and had a disastrous first kiss with him on the set of their tv show. Enter Dan Finnegan, a cinematographer, who offers to bring Jane back to his hometown because Jack is playing some sort of music festival and one of Dan’s 87 brothers has an in at the barn (?) where Jack is playing.
Dan and Jane have a bit of history, though, an aborted first date attempt that did not end well, and I have to be honest here: I remember zero details, other than it was cringe-y but also set up a cute finale, so it worked. But for most of the book, we’re in enemies to lovers territory.
Anyway, Jane goes back to Dan’s hometown, posing as his girlfriend, and meeting his absolutely adorable family. (The family is a stand-in for the absolutely adorable puppy or kid that is sometimes used here.) Anyway, I really did like Dan’s family, even if it always felt like Dan was a little bit of an outsider.
Long story short, the ruse doesn’t work, Jane leaves town in defeat, and then decides to win her guy back. And of course she does.
True story: I started this review probably six weeks ago, got distracted, forgot about it, and found it when I logged back in to write another review. So I…. don’t really remember the whole story, other than it was a cute way to pass a couple of hours. Like a semi-decent Netflix rom com. And sometimes that’s what you need on a Saturday afternoon.
