Katherine Center can do no wrong. Thats it. Thats the review.

Thank you St. Martins Press and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book. Special shout out to Katherine Center for providing a small group of us book nerds a copy of the physical book to unleash our creative souls into.

Just kidding, I am going to gush sparkly word vomit about this book until GoodReads tells me "no more you hooligan woman." *deep breath* THIS BOOK IS FUDGING PHENOMENAL! P H E N O M E N A L! If I had a dollar for the amount of times this woman's story gave me goosebumps, i'd be a dang millionaire.

"The Rom-Commers" is a love letter to romance lovers in all our gloriously glittery forms! It's seriously so hard to put to words how ridiculously perfect this story is.

Her books are all filled with the best kind of stuff. I am talking strong females, love that will make your knees weak, plot points that will make your emotions spiral and with all of that combined will make your physically smile down on the page but her latest is something deeply special.

Bold statement time. This has the highest potential of kicking "Happiness for Beginnings" out of my favorite book by the queen herself... that's how hard this story goes.

I know you're thinking "le sigh" this is just another gummy bear & unicorn fart filled love story that Dani endlessly reads but NO she is M O R E, M O R E, SO MUCH MORE!

Katherine Center expertly crafts this emotionally & heart warming story of a ridiculously talented female writer who is loses her shine to the daily care of her father when the opportunity of a life time drops into her lap. The opportunity? Help celebrity crush, Charlie, to give his earth destroying bad rom-com a new life. Writing with Charlie essentially opens her world to joy, independence and love.

You'll experience butterflies of discovering love. The deep cut that is understanding grief and loss. The anxieties of new beginnings. It's will spring tears into your eyes. You'll old man wheeze out into the world. Center excellently weaves in all these emotional feelings with goofy banter, swoon worthy "dates" and a fur baby named Cuthbert to bring story perfection. I'll forever say it. This book is the book.

The quotes that Katherine Center littered throughout the prose are going to live rent-free in my head forever. I have about twenty just written down in a notebook so I can savor them randomly.

- Hollywood
- Hilarious Banter
- Forced Proximity
- Coworkers to Lovers
- Narrator Breaks the Fourth Wall
- Emotional AF
- Dealing with Grief
- The Best Literary Family
- A Fur Buddy You'll Want to Squeeze
- Star-studded Cameos (IFYKYK)

Ps. Emma is literally going to be the best literary women spawned in 2024. You guys are going to be obsessed with everything that is her. She is an icon.

"The Rom-Commers" publishes on June 11, 2024. Just take it from me, order this now.

This book had me feeling all the feels: sad, happy, and laughing. I will read anything Katherine Center writes. She always makes me fall in love with her characters as well as get so invested in their life.
Emm Wheeler was such a relatable character. Taking care of everyone else before her self. Till she finally decides to do something for her. She goes to Hollywood to help writer Charles Yates romance his screenplay up a little.

This was a fun book but not as good as some of this authors previous work. It felt a little too long and I wasn't a fan of the cancer fake out.

Oh Katherine, how I love you and all your books! And multiple cameos from Jack Stapleton? Oh my heart! This book of love and loss and all the things that make me laugh and cry! Life isn’t perfect but it is beautiful. And so much of our happiness is how we choose to look at it. Please let them make this book into a movie!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Everyone is going to want to preorder this one! 💜🩷💙

Absolutely devoured this book! Katherine Center has a way of writing funny, realistic, flawed characters that you can't help but root for. This book had me on the edge of my seat!

I didn’t think Katherine Center could get any better, but here we are. This is her best work yet! I smiled, laughed, and went through all five stages of grief. This one is a must read.

Emma gets the chance to write with the well known Charlie Yates who tried to write a rom com when his typical genre is action movies. She is a master at her work, and has some things to teach him, but he is a closed door and uninterested in her opinions or help.

I love how KC always implants some medical awareness in her books. This one references TBIs and some cancers. It’s always done so well without feeling like a textbook, and I love that she adds them to her storyline. Also, all of the Jack Stapleton cameos were great!

Read if you love:
-grumpy x sunshine
-the Bodyguard
-medical info/hospital settings
-Guinea pigs
-books with amazing epilogues

Thank you so much to NetGalley and St Martins Press for my advanced copy!

Thank you, NetGalley, for an advanced digital copy of “The Rom-Commers” in exchange for a review

I’ve been with Katherine Center since ‘How to Walk Away.’ She’s a classic go-to in the sweet romance, human connection space. I always pick up her new books as the come out.

So why only 3 stars? The main character was a bit naive for my taste. C’mon sis, we all know he likes you…GET WITH US

Thank you netgalley for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review. This book made me laugh and made me cry. It was such a fun rom com with some heartbreaking moments. I highly recommend.

Absolutely loved this book. Solidified Katherine Center as an auto buy auto.
A cute “workplace” romance. So sweet.

This was SO good! Katherine Center and her ability to express the meaning of love and why love stories are so important is so profound. Loved these characters, the depth of their life experiences, and how they came together in the end.

I did a mix of physical and audio and loved my experience with both!

This book was like a warm hug for my soul. I was silly grinning the whole time. I love the grump and sunshine trope and this version did not disappoint. A little more of an emotional rollercoaster than I usually expect from Center, but I am HERE for it.

This book was everything I wanted it to be and more! I laughed and I cried and I laughed some more. I loved the lighthearted feel of this book but also appreciated the deeper and intimate moments of the story. There were so many good reminders in this book about how we get to choose the way we react to the circumstances in our lives.

The characters in this story had so much depth, they were witty and easy to fall in love with. I loved the palpable chemistry between Emma and Charlie. Emma’s dad is an angel and I love his storyline! I also appreciated the Jack Stapleton cameos.

I absolutely LOVED this book. I well be recommending it to everyone. Put it at the top of your summer reading list! You will not be disappointed.

This one wasn’t a favorite of mine. I’ve given every single KC book that I’ve read 5 stars but I just couldn’t do it with this one. I feel like the characters were forced and just didn’t mesh. I also feel like the lung cancer scare just wasn’t needed. The is a romcom. Why make it to where there has to be triggers like that?

“There are endless human stories, but they all end the same way. So it can’t be where you’re going that matters. It has to be how you get there.”

What happens when a very famous screenwriter who thinks love isn’t real is forced to write a rom-com with an unknown, unsuccessful (as of yet) screenwriter? Chaos and banter and probably love, that’s what. I mean, this is a Katherine Center book after all.

One of my favorite things about Katherine Center’s books (although there are many many favorite things) is how she always focuses on one profession. Screenwriting isn’t something I know much about or think much about but I feel like I learned so much about writing rom-coms and I loved that so much. Any book that talks about romance tropes feels like breaking the fourth wall and it’s one of my favorite things (see I have many favorite things).

This book has so much goodness: from lonely guinea pigs to line dancing to romance lessons and life lessons, it’s all so delightful. But there’s a lot of trauma too. Charlie and Emma have reasons to not let anyone close and there’s a lot to work through for both of them.

Did this book make me cry? Of course it did. But mostly during the epilogue because I loved everyone so much. Charlie and Emma and Emma’s whole family and even Jack Stapleton (yes, that Jack Stapleton!). They all prove that life isn’t always perfect or easy but it’s worth living and writing about.

Like all of Katherine Center's books, I love- love- loved it! Heartwarming story with relatable characters. The storyline was predictable, but just because you know the destination does not mean you cannot enjoy the journey. I read this one slowly - on purpose - so that I could make it last. Cannot wait for her next book!

So i loved this setup! A struggling screenwriter gets the opportunity to write a rom com with her ultimate screenwriter crush, while also teaching him love exists! very cute! they’re was a lot of fun, silly pinning. line dancing, romantically falling on each other, and getting him over his fear of water. i liked our two characters for the most part(i had issues with Emma near the end), i really loved Charlie, he was a complicated character who kept a lot inside. Where this lost me a bit, was when Emma’s father has a medical issue near the end, she was absolutely awful to her younger sister, who said something hurtful back to her- and Emma NEVER apologized?? even after Sylvia apologized to her she never even mentioned her part in it- that really just rubbed the the wrong way, and i wasn’t able to totally get back on her side. but overall this was a sweet, fun, and emotional rom com!

Katherine Center’s new novel The Rom-Commers has everything a Rom-Com should have mainly because it is about writing a Rom-Com. (How many times can I write Rom-Com in one review?) Emma Wheeler hasn’t had an easy life so far. Her inspiring dream of becoming a screenwriter and writing Rom-Coms is put on hold after a tragic accident that resulted in the death of her mother and the partial paralysis of her father. Emma becomes sole 24/7 caregiver of her father and only writes an odd job here and there with the help of her high school ex-boyfriend turned Hollywood Agent.

But as luck and Rom-Coms will have it, Emma is offered the job of a lifetime. Writing a Rom-Com with her writing hero Charles Yates. First, she has to convince Charles that there is an art to writing romance and maybe that love does exist.

This was such a fun book to read. It had all of the typical romance characteristics but also was told in a unique style. I loved both characters and found myself smiling and laughing along with their antics. Solid 4 stars. I highly recommend this book -perfect beach read with summer right around the corner.

I want to thank NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read an advanced copy and give my opinion in this review.

"I would write a hundred happy endings for us if I could."

First! Thanks Netgalley & Katherine Center for the chance to read this before publication 💕

I find it really hard to take the romance genre seriously, but I absolutely fell in love with this one! I laughed out loud, openly cried sitting next to strangers on a plane (what is it about altitude that makes everything seem more emotional than it needs to be?), and genuinely enjoyed the banter between the characters.

The tropes were tropey (enemies to coworkers to friends to lovers?)
The lines were cheesey
The ending was (somewhat) predictable, but as the protagonist said on the topic of rom-coms... "If you're surprised by the ending, somebody wasn't doing their job. We all know where it's headed, the fun is how we get there." And this book was definitely fun.

In "The Rom-Commers" by Katherine Center, readers are treated to a delightful romantic tale. This novel follows the lives of two gifted screenplay writers, Charlie and Emma, whose professional ambitions collide with their unexpected journey into love.

What unfolds is a rollercoaster of emotions as Charlie and Emma seem to take steps forward and then right back again.

The chemistry between Charlie and Emma is palpable, their exchanges brimming with humor, intellect, and undeniable charm. Their relationship blossoms gradually, mirroring the nuanced development of a well-crafted screenplay. I love their interactions and witty banter and was rooting for them the entire book.

Emma has been taking care of her father and her sister for the past 10 years, forgoing her own pleasures and writing job opportunities to take care of them. Now her old boyfriend/writing agent has offered her a dream opportunity to write with her celebrity crush screenwriter Charley Yates, but she has to move across the country for 6 weeks to do it. When her sister steps up to make that work, Emma finds that the job is not what it seems.

Charley and Emma are grumpy and sunshine. Charlie writes action films and doesn't believe in love, while Emma is an expert in all things Rom Com. The banter and chemistry between Emma and Charley is delightful while they try to repair his terrible rom com script and their antics at activities such as line dancing are lots of fun. I found myself missing some of Centers wonderful side characters in this one however. Emma's father and sister are great but we don't see much of them, and we do get a cameo appearance from Jack Stapleton from the Bodyguard, but that is what kept me from rating this one as high as I do most of her other books. Katherine Center is an auto buy author for me and I enjoyed this one, it just wasn't one of my favorites from her wonderful cannon of stories.

Thank you to the publisher and net galley for this e galley in return for an unbiased review.