Publisher: Pan; Main Market edition
Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Genre:Romance
Summary:
Sometimes the best love stories start with The Roughest Draft....
Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.
Forced to reunite they hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.
While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka for having me on this tour and sending me the book to review.
OK so I'm a lover of romance so this book was right up my street, the blurb was a big fat yes from me! It's well written, I really enjoyed reading the banter and interactions between Katrina and Nathan. I loved how easily it flowed between them even to some degree when they were angry at each other.
I did like how it alternated chapters and the point of view, it was interesting to see the same incident from both points of view and how vastly different their interpretations of what happened were.
I absolutely hated Chris and how emotionally manipulative/ abusive he was, I couldn't understand how she could stand being in the same room as him let alone be with him and I don't know why she didn't get rid as soon as he pushed her to do something she told him explicitly she didn't want to do.
Whilst I did enjoy aspects of the book I did feel it was a little predictable, and whilst all romance follows a similar path so that's kind of expected, this was too predictable for me because I can't see myself rereading it. And as my book club know I'm someone who rereads romance for the hug-in-a-book feeling it gives me, and this didn't give me that.
Krystina xx
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka for having me on this tour and sending me the book to review.
OK so I'm a lover of romance so this book was right up my street, the blurb was a big fat yes from me! It's well written, I really enjoyed reading the banter and interactions between Katrina and Nathan. I loved how easily it flowed between them even to some degree when they were angry at each other.
I did like how it alternated chapters and the point of view, it was interesting to see the same incident from both points of view and how vastly different their interpretations of what happened were.
I absolutely hated Chris and how emotionally manipulative/ abusive he was, I couldn't understand how she could stand being in the same room as him let alone be with him and I don't know why she didn't get rid as soon as he pushed her to do something she told him explicitly she didn't want to do.
Whilst I did enjoy aspects of the book I did feel it was a little predictable, and whilst all romance follows a similar path so that's kind of expected, this was too predictable for me because I can't see myself rereading it. And as my book club know I'm someone who rereads romance for the hug-in-a-book feeling it gives me, and this didn't give me that.
Krystina xx
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