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Thursday, 12 June 2025

Book Review- How to Write a Rom-Com by Cristina Wolf

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Title: How To Write a Rom-Com
Author: Cristina Wolf
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Aria
Publication Date: 15th May 2025
Rating: 5 Stars

Lucy Bowen has sworn off love.

After too many failed relationships, she's over the fairytale – but working at NYC's biggest romance publisher, Heartwarming, means she can't escape it. When the company's bestselling author, Ruby Jones, threatens to leave due to dwindling sales (and a complete lack of inspiration), Lucy's boss takes drastic action.

Her new assignment? Go to a small lakeside town and find the spark for Ruby's next big love story.

Lucy expects picture-perfect charm, but the town – and its grumpy yet extremely attractive restaurant owner, Liam – have other ideas. He's skeptical of city folk, and she has zero interest in falling for a small-town cliché. But rom-com rule number one? Love finds you when you least expect it...

If you are a hard core rom-com fantatic then just make sure you read this.  It's like an ode to a rom-com! 

It's a rom-com within a romance, within a Hallmark movie. 

It's small town perfection! 

And there are loads of references to Friends too which I was totally there for, as I have watched all the episodes far too many times. 

Lucy is now a fan of small towns, but she is trying to get a promotion to editor at the romance imprint she works for, and is asked to infiltrate a small town to come up with a plot and location for the imprint's best selling author to keep her onside. 

But on arriving well she meets a picture perfect hunk of a neighbour, who doesn't seem keen on big city people, but looks like he should be in the pages of a book. 

And everywhere she goes in Hudson Falls, Ruby is able to see parallels with small town romance novels. This works on so so many levels and just made me smile the whole time. 

And there is so much to both of our main characters and the varied cast of locals that she meets. I loved just about everyone and was just a pure joy to read. 

I'm a massive fan of the genre, and couldn't get enough of this book and author, which seems to be a very accomplished debut novel.  I am already eager to see what she will write next as this was fabulous. 

Thank you to Aria and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

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