Oh my gosh, I adored this book so much! I am a huge rom-com lover myself, although maybe not some of the classics that others like, I tend to like the ones that are really more funny maybe than those. Could be how I prefer my romance books that I read these days! But so much in this story was just like a rom-com. Obviously, duh, that’s the whole premise, right? Liz was a little clueless of course, but seemed to catch on quicker than the heroines in this type of story usually do about the enemies/fake dating trope she was in. Even if things kind of went south and didn’t end up like she’d wanted at first.

With all of that though, there was a lot more to the story. Her mother being dead was a really big storyline. Now, I feel like she was a little overdramatic in a way, I mean she had a great stepmom, and it had been quite a while since her mother had died. But I get it, teenagers, right? And who knows how something like that affects a person. Since I’ve not been in that situation, I can’t really say fairly. And I didn’t quite understand why she kept the secret from her best friend Joss for so long. That seemed a little weird to me as well.

But there were good things about both of the boys she was dealing with. I mean, the book that Michael came in looking for? And how Wes was just her perfect foil and bantering partner. Not to mention how he’d watched a lot of the movies that were Liz’s favorites! All in all, this was such a sweet, fun, cute, clean romance. In the end, while I was rooting for the one she did end up with, it was kind of hard to not think the other boy would have been a great second best.

One last detail I have to mention is I love how she was coming up with soundtracks for her life. Personally, when I hear a song in a movie I love and watch over and over, I can never hear that song again without thinking of that exact scene in that movie. Like “Come Fly with Me” by Frank Sinatra, or even the Michael Buble version, I immediately think of the movie Catch Me If You Can with Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve never actually come up with my own movie soundtrack, and now I kind of want to.

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.