Review: Let's Make a Scene

Let's Make a Scene by Laura Wood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thirteen years ago Cynthie Taylor made her acting debut in an historical romance, Lady of Quality, co-starring with acting royalty Jack Turner-Jones. They were enemies (with a fair amount of attraction being denied), forced to pretend to date to drum up publicity for the film.

Present day, Cynthie has been publicly shamed as the scarlet woman for trying to break up her director's marriage, with his wife four months pregnant! He told Cynthie they'd been separated for years and is now making gooey eyes at his wife in public. Cynthie has lost the action-hero film she was about to star in (morality clause) and her BFF/manager Hannah brings her a new script, Lady of Quality 2, same producers/directors/cast/crew. The film has been a Netflix staple for the last thirteen years and a new generation want to see the sequel.

Of course, to add insult to injury, there will be a Netflix documentary crew filming behind the scenes and the producers think it would be a great idea for all concerned if Cynthie and Jack reprised their fake romance, which would squash rumours that Cynthie is a drug addict or in despair etc.

Jack is now one of the stars of a hit Vampire series (think Vampire Diaries/Buffy/Angel) but the last season ended rather ambiguously for his character and he hopes being a hot property with the film could help his character return for the next season.

With both of them older and wiser could this film change enemies to lovers?

This was a one-day only 99p offer on Amazon Kindle and it had rave reviews from so many rom-com authors I had to give it a go - L.O.V.E.D. it. Funny, touching, I could totally see this being made into a great film.

I see now that it is the second in a series, I didn't know that and it can totally be read as a standalone.

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