𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗢𝗠-𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 ⠀
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This novel has the big five: spark, build, banter, joy, & scenes. It might be my new favorite Katherine Center
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I audibly gasped at the cameo from Jack Stapleton!!! 💕💕#iykyk⠀
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The Canned Biscuit chapter had me in stitches. 🤣. Charlie is such a mess. Add in the chapters about line dancing, a melancholy guinea pig and this really is the perfect Rom-Com. The epilogue is beautifully written and might have been my favorite part. I loved it! Highly recommend all of Katherine Center's books.
While you wait for this one, you should definitely read 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱.
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I 100% need Nancy Meyers or Hallie Meyers-Shyer to make this into a movie!!!!

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗺-𝗖𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: "𝗜𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁", "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹"& "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆" (ᴍʏ 𝟸 ғᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇs), "𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻"⠀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝗿𝗼𝗺-𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. ⠀

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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ @ɴᴇᴛɢᴀʟʟᴇʏ @sᴛᴍᴀʀᴛɪɴsᴘʀᴇss ᴀɴᴅ @ᴋᴀᴛʜᴇʀɪɴᴇᴄᴇɴᴛᴇʀ ⠀𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.
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📚336 pages on kindle ⠀

I love this author and I loved this book. I ugly cried at least twice while reading this and that’s how you know it’s good. I will read everything this Katherine Center writes.

I love love love Katherine Center!!!

Each book she writes, she outdoes herself.

Emma and Charlie are my new favs!!!

I love especially how Center takes real life scenarios and writes so beautifully about them.

The review for this book will be posted on my instagram (Bookmarkedfavs) this weekend!!

Thanks for my early copy!!

I’ll be honest that I had the opportunity to listen to this audiobook before getting the chance to read it. Sometimes I find that they can be two different experiences but what stayed the same-I absolutely adore this book!!!! The only thing that changed is a I fell even more in love with the characters and this story.

Dreams do come true! Emma gets the opportunity of a lifetime to relocate to Los Angeles to rewrite a screenplay with the screenwriter of all screenwriters, the epic Charlie Yates! Emma has always been a caretaker, looking after her younger sister and now her dad. Now it’s her time to stop sacrificing her goals and dream big! Nothing is going to stop her, not even cynical Charlie Yates. Emma’s perseverance moves this novel forward in such an amazing manner, leaving us to root for her all the way! Funny and heartwarming while tackling lots of big issues, Katherine Center produced a book as epic as a Charlie Yates screenplay! The Rom-Commers is a breezy, fun read…an absolute gem of a book.

Review is posted on Goodreads and will be posted on Instagram ahead of publication

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!