Nobody Puts Romcoms In The Corner by Kathryn FreemanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sally is a hopeless romantic, she loves every romcom ever made and owns a coffee shop called the Love Bean (which I thought meant something completely different LOL) which carries cards in the window of every successful romance which has started with a date in her café.
Harry is Sally's opposite. A burly builder, he doesn't believe in romance AT ALL, and doesn't plan to fall in love. After he found his girlfriend 'entertaining' her boss, he left the house he lovingly restored and moved into Sally's spare room. At first the two of them are like ships that pass in the night, keeping their separate shelves in the fridge and only crossing paths in the hallways, then one night after a few too many glasses of wine, Sally tries to explain the iconic Dirty Dancing lift to Harry and they end up trying to recreate it - with predictably hilarious failure. However, when Sally loads the video into TikTok they become an overnight sensation with thousands of likes and comments clamouring for them to (fail to) recreate other iconic romcom scenes.
This was funny and referenced so many of my favourite romcom films, but there were a few I didn't recognise so I may have to watch them. I suspect that this book would be of little interest to someone who hadn't seen the majority of these films, but then I guess you wouldn't choose to read a romance unless you liked the genre in the first place.
I felt that the book lost a bit of focus in the middle, but in some ways that also helped to cement the growing romance between Harry and Sally, you get to see them falling in love gradually rather than it all happening way too fast.
I've enjoyed Kathryn Freeman's books in the past, although I am currently struggling to finish another of hers. This is definitely in the thumbs-up pile.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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