I read a book by this author last year and really liked it. This one had a really great synopsis and sounded like it would be great as well! I did love all the fun little movie scenes that the characters re-enacted for their TikTok videos. Even if some of the movies aren’t what I exactly think of as rom-coms, more just romance or more drama than comedy. And I do really like the characters’ names of Harry and Sally.

The way that it all got started was perfect as well. Both of the main characters had pretty good back stories that made sense for how they reacted and behaved in the different situations. Even the characters that were the friends were fun. Family characters definitely added to the drama and things they had to deal with. I did not ever quite get to where I could like Harry’s parents though I did grow to like Sally’s sister. 

A few things just were not great for me though. One thing I complain about a lot, the unreasonableness in how someone reacts to something in a way that is just to add drama was really extreme for me at the end of this. I really think the final big incident that separated them, well the reason that the character gave for that didn’t make sense, was kind of out there and didn’t work for me. I also was a little bored throughout the story. It didn’t grab me and I did struggle a bit to get through it. I also didn’t laugh as much throughout this as I would hope for a romantic comedy about romantic comedies. 

Overall it was cute, but did not quite live up to the other book I read and loved by this author, The Italian Job.