title: Right on Cue
author: Falon Ballard
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
publication date: February 27, 2024
pages: 336
peppers: 3 (on this scale)
warnings: binge drinking, dead parent
summary: Screenwriter Emmy's production team can't find a good female lead for her new rom com, so they rope her into playing the part, which would have been fine if the male lead she had in mind didn't get a last-minute injury. The actor replacing him is her nemesis, the reason she left acting as a teenager, her first crush, her first kiss, her first heartbreak, Grayson. She has to make herself appear to fall in love on screen while seething over how he derailed her life.
tropes:
- enemies-to-lovers
- second-chance romance
- lets bang it out of our systems
- just one time
- famous people falling in love
- child of famous parents
- dead great father and mean living father
what I liked:
- clever banter
- can't keep their hands off each other
- great side characters
- good meta setting of romance within romance
what I didn’t like:
- hearing only part of a conversation and jumping to a conclusion
- not talking things through about then and now
overall rating: 4 (of 5 stars)