Annie Cassidy loves Nora Ephron and romantic comedies. She knows she is destined to meet her Mr. Right and is waiting for her own meet-cute to occur so that he (preferably someone like Tom Hanks) can sweep her off her feet. When a movie starts filming in her town and Annie gets a job as the director’s assistant, she thinks this is her chance for her romantic comedy to happen. Unfortunately, the first person Annie meets on the set is the lead actor Drew Danforth, who couldn’t be farther from Tom Hanks if he tried. Annie knows her Mr. Right is out there, but will she ever find him?
I thought the plot and the basic premise of this story was super cute. The author did a great job of providing back story and realism to the main character where I could totally believe why she was looking for a romantic comedy-type romance. Normally you might laugh at someone who always had their heads in the clouds, waiting for their own romantic hero to come along. But I really liked the way the author laid everything out here.
That being said, I thought Annie was a bit annoying. She automatically hates Drew because he’s famous and rich. Everything he says to her, she thinks he’s making fun of her because she doesn’t have as much money as him. She laughs off the tabloids when they publish a picture of the two of them but then totally believes the tabloids when they talk about a rumor about him and his costar. She misinterprets almost everything Drew does – their meet-cute was her spilling coffee on him (totally something that would happen in a romantic comedy, right?) and as a result, he starts calling her Coffee Girl. But she thinks he is making fun of her because she has to get coffee for the director. I mean, even I got what the Coffee Girl nickname meant.
I understand that Annie was looking for her own romantic hero but sometimes she took it a bit far. She thought that it was a sign that one of the guys she went out with had a houseboat (like Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle). Annie’s fixation on rom-coms was a bit ridiculous and the constant movie comparisons and references got a bit old. Additionally, even though Annie is always talking about her love of romantic comedies and meeting her Mr. Right, the only romantic comedy movies she really talks about are Sleepless in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping, and You’ve Got Mail. I guess I thought she would have had a larger repertoire of movies to talk about.
The characters I did like were Chloe and Nick, and Annie’s Uncle Don. Uncle Don appeared to be the nicest guy with his weekly Dungeons and Dragons group. Chloe and Nick seemed to have fun chemistry and I would definitely read the next book in the series which is based on them.
I liked this book, but not as much as I had hoped.
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