

But when it comes to their evolving feelings for one another, not even the best minds in the business can figure out a way for them to both end up with everything they want. They know how stories are built and how they end. Or maybe she’ll find herself thrown together with her professional rival, the brooding, acclaimed book editor Charlie Lastra.įor Nora and Charlie, books are life. Maybe she’ll have a change of heart, maybe she’ll fall in love with a guy who rides horses. She doesn’t get the happy ending.īut when Nora’s little sister Libby drags her to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina to spend a month living out their Hallmark-movie dreams, Nora gets a chance to feel what it might be like to be the romance novel sweetheart. She’s the Patricia Eden, the Vivian Kensington. Nora is the blood-thirsty literary agent who gets dumped for the heroine in the rom-com. She’s the uptight, waspy, city girl who is dating the leading man when he inevitably throws his life in the city away to manage a failing inn in Vermont with a girl that wears overalls. Nora Stephens isn’t the heroine in a rom-com. It’s not the most creative but overall, it’s pretty inoffensive. This one fits the bill, it’s cute, the main characters look exactly how you expect them to.

I guess I can’t really be mad at this cartoon cover, considering that Emily Henry’s books are all variations on a theme. We Need to Talk: A Rom-Com for Rom-Com Lovers
