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By the Book
by Jasmine Guillory
okay!!!! cute!!! I got really addicted I got really addicted to this. however, I think part of it was because I read it right before I started my degree in writing and editing and this book really got me excited to begin?!! this is all about a washed up child of two celebrities and someone working at the publishing agency he signed with to release a memoir. he hasn't been responding so she goes to help him write it? I feel really bad cause I really did like this romance but to be honest i was really rooting for them like to get the book done and for them to have a great professional relationship and for them to be friends but I didn't really get the romantic chemistry. they were trusting each other so much and they were building such a lovely friendship but then every now and again the author would be like just adding a part where she was like "oh he was so hot like I'm not usually attracted to that but like he was a sexy, whatever" and I didn't really buy it. I just don't feel like if they had a relationship it would be a super healthy one and I'm not really a big fan of the emily henry type "he was actually in love with you the whole time!!" it just feels a little cheap to me when you have the entire story in the woman's perspective and then at the end you find out that the guy actually liked her the whole time and that she just didn't realize because of whatever reason. it's just. can you not just show me two characters who maybe don't like each other at the start and then slowly grow to respect each other. it just makes me feel like their growing friendship wasn't really that, it was like the guy with an ulterior motive (even though they made it pretty clear on the book of that's not what it was, it just it just makes me feel a little icky to me). I feel like it doesn't really change the story that much if you don't have it so that he's like obsessed with her from the beginning, I don't know anyway, still was a very fun book 3.75 stars!