The rom-commers is a delightfully entertaining story about a failed writer who is given a chance of a Iifetime opportunity to rewrite the screenplay for a rom com with her favorite writer. The only problem is that he knew nothing about this until she shows up on his doorstep. This meet-cute leads to a lot of witty banter and laugh out loud moments. I knew from the very first first page that I was going to love this book. The story is well written, the story arc flowed effortlessly and the characters were likable and relatable. The rom-commers had all of the elements of a great rom com. It made me laugh, cry, and swoon.

Thank you to @netgalley and @stmartinspress for the earc in exchange for the honest review.

Katherine Center’s Rom-Commers is a delight! It’s a witty and self deprecating commentary on romance novels. As Emma is telling Charlie what romance novels are suppose to be like and what its readers expect, you feel seen - as in, yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking for….. and this book goves you that and more!

Katherine Center does it again. Her books are such a delight and this one is no different. Emma is quickly likeable. Charlie is rough around the edges, but Emma slowly wears away his layers. I love how Charlie was the seasoned writer, but Emma truly was the teacher in how to write a love story. I always love the depth of Katherine Center's characters; they have flaws, they are human, they are relatable, they are real but she always gives you a happy ending in the end. As I have with all her books I've read thus far, I get completely engrossed in them and have a hard time putting them down after starting. If you enjoy a good rom-com, playful banter and heartfelt conversations this one is for you!

Read if you like:
🎥 4th Wall Breaks
🌤️ Grumpy x Sunshine
💋 Just Kissing
🏠 Forced Proximity
💻 Coworkers to Lovers
🥺 Hard Topics Mixed In
💕 Learning the Value of Living Life & Love

I don’t know how to start out this review other than to say this was such an amazing romance that truly made me sooo happy and was exactly what I needed with the sunshine Emma brought to the story.

Also, the way the story is told to the reader made me LOVE it so much and loved the 4th wall break with this style of storytelling.

I really loved the opposites attract with Emma and Charlie and how she was so sparkling and full of so much sunshine to Charlie’s grumpy personality that doesn’t believe in love.

The story was a bit silly, ridiculous and I loved every second of it and it truly made me swoon and oh so happy which was exactly what I needed! And loved the author’s note so much too!

Thank you so much to the publisher for my ARC and ALC in exchange for my honest review!

I loved The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center. The characters had great banter and an inconvenience to love back and forth. I enjoyed that their hardships brought them together and all of the side characters were a great addition to the trajectory of the plot.
I loved that Jack Stapleton was also in this book, I love a cross-book character mention.
Overall, this book was really good and is a great rom-com!

Last year’s Hello Stranger was a home run in my book, and I was thrilled to get my hands and ears on an ARC of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center; thank you so much to St. Martin’s Press for the review copy!

Emma’s career as a unknown screenwriter gets blasted into the spotlight when she is handed the opportunity of a lifetime- to co-rewrite a rom-com screenplay with her idol * celebrity crush, Charlie Yates. There’s just… a few problems. 1, Emma must relinquish the full time care of her dad to her younger sister for the time she’s away. 2, Charlie doesn’t write with anyone, and he certainly doesn’t want to write with her. And 3, the screenplay is truly horrendous… almost as if the original writer doesn’t believe in romance or comedy!

It's a tale as old as time, folks. Grumpy meets sunshine, forced proximity, cue the montage of adorable and hilarious mini-adventures. Add in some family drama, mistakes, and one depressed hamster, and you’ve got The Rom-Commers. Center is certainly not the first or last author to rely on these themes in a romance novel, but she does them quite well. I flew through this book just as quickly as Hello Stranger. Romance readers take note- this book is very light on spice- I prefer romances this way, so this did not detract any points from my rating. I must admit that these MCs did not work as well for me as I hoped they would, however I do think that most chick lit readers will like this one for a light summer romance— Happy reading!

I was 60% into this book and I knew it would be five stars. Katherine Center could have completelky fumbled the ending, she didn't but it wouldn't have mattered. The swoony feelings from caretaker Charlie and the overwhelming need to applaud at everything that Emma did and said on every page made me LOVE this book.

Great love story (he falls first and HARD), great banter, very quick pace, lots of giddy and fun moments. Full of Center's signature charm and wit.

I'm pretty sure that it's my favorite Katherine Center book.

I could not put this one down. It was full of heart, love, drama, family, relationships and so much more. Emma was a fantastic FMC with so much spirit and was so interesting to get to know. Charlie was a great MMC to spar with Emma. This is along the lines of grumpy guy trope but it's written so well that I loved that angle. When I read the line, "If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you're at the mercy of darkness," it was a wow moment. And I felt like the theme of the book was summed up nicely with "There are endless human stories, but they all end the same way. So it can't be where you're going that matter, it has to be how you get there." Highly recommend reading this one!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for advanced copy, and I give my review freely

This was an easy read and would be great summer reading on the beach! It's predictable, like most other books in the genre, but it's still fun.

I thought The Bodyguard was my least favorite KC book but The Rom-commers takes the cake.

I couldn’t relate to both the main characterers and found them annoying. Most of the interactions between Emma & Charlie was too far-fetched. Like who does that? I felt there was no chemistry between the two.

I loved Katherine Center’s other books. Will definitely give the author another chance because I love her writing style. Sadly this book was not for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange of my honest review.


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DELIGHTFUL. I've only read one other KC book, and I wasn't a fan, but I've seen The Rom-Commers basically everywhere so when I saw the arc on NetGalley I had to check it out. Love it when the main conflict doesn't stem from miscommunication for once!

This was another great book by Katherine Center!! An inexperienced, but very talented screenwriter gets to work with her idol to write a rom com. She has always put others before herself and he’s very cynical about love and they set out to write the perfect screenplay. I fell in love with all the characters in this book. None of them are perfect, but that’s what makes them lovable. Our protagonist, Emma is a selfless and loving person who is dealing with grief and her self-proclaimed part in losing her mom. She’s also the main caretaker for her dad who is forever impaired due to an accident. Her family insists that she make herself a priority and move to LA to write a screenplay with her idol, Charlie. He’s a writer of action movies, but has been persuaded to give a rom com a try, but needs someone softer to help out. This book takes you through the relationship between Emma and Charlie, her feelings of guilt, his own reluctance to break down walls, and their mutual quest to finish the screenplay. The chemistry, the family love, and short chapters led me to flying through this book!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Katherine Center does it again💕

This is my fourth Katherine Center read, and she is becoming one of my favorite authors. I love how she makes her main characters adorably quirky and somehow incredibly down to earth and relatable. I love how she infuses humor and wit into her writing and dialogue. I haven’t necessarily noticed it in previous books, but I love how she draws the reader in and almost involves them in the story. And I love that her stories are not just romantic fluff, they are deep and sometimes sad and confront real, big issues.

As a romance and rom-com lover, I loved the premise of this book. I loved Emma, and I even loved Charlie (even though he was kind of a jerk at the beginning, he was really thoughtful and sweet on the inside). This was a super fun book full of classic romcom hijinks that will make you laugh and moving moments that may make you tear up. I can’t wait for my next Katherine Center read.💕

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Marten’s Press for an advanced copy of The Rom-Commers! All thoughts and opinions above are my own.

This is actually my first Katherine Center read, and I loved it so much that I'll be going back to start reading her other books! This was a sweet and entertaining read. I laughed, a lot. I cried. I felt all of the feelings throughout reading this. And I read it in one day. One sitting, actually. I couldn't have asked for a better read. There was plenty of angst and emotion, and all of the fluff that goes along with it, and it wasn't spicy, which was a nice change for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the wholesomeness of this love story. The heartbreaking moments were not heavy, but they were definitely there, and then those feel good, full of love moments were just the right mixture. I couldn't have loved it more!

Thank you so much to NetGalley for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review.

I loved Hello Stranger last year and was so excited to receive a ARC of this book. Katherine is a wonderful author, but unfortunately this book just fell flat for me. I was not connecting with the characters at all and felt like Charlie just had no personality whatsoever. The plot was just ok. This was a miss for me. Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for a copy of this ARC. All opinions are my own.

I would read a cookbook written by Katherine Center, so I was beyond thrilled to get this ARC. And, like all of Center's books, this one did not disappoint. Somehow Center was able to mash so many rom-com tropes into one book and make it absolutely work: grumpy sunshine, force proximity, popular/not popular (or in this case famous/not famous) and some that are potential spoilers so I'll leave it at that. This book works through the "in good time and in bad, in sickness and in health" vows but they aren't always for the main characters relationship. I would highly recommend this book to lovers of rom-coms!

Ok....please don't hate me but this was kind of a let down. I did love absolutely everything to do with Emma's father, and the scenes with Emma's family were my favorite by far, absolutely no question. The romance though? I don't know...
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First of all, this felt straight up ripped from Beach Read - a rom-com writer has to help a "more serious" writer write a rom-com, and in doing so, she takes him out to experience the elements that feed into that. I have definitely read this plot before.
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Second, I'm sorry but Charlie was a d*ck. Repeatedly. I honestly think the way he treated her at the end was unforgivable and should have been the biggest of red flags. I don't want to spoil anything, but this employed a trope that I just absolutely cannot get behind. And Emma wasn't really that much better. Especially her martyr attitude and the way she treated her sister. Ultimately, I just wasn't rooting for them as a couple.
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This does have some heavy content, and THAT I liked. I thought that was really touching, and I would have loved to have more of that. But overall, I did sadly find this disappointing.

I always enjoy Katherine Center books, but I had a hard time liking these characters.

What I liked
- fast paced
- Emma was fun at times and brought Charlie out of his shell.

What I didn't like
- Charlie talked bad about Emma twice behind her back (she overheard though) and Emma just carried on. I would have been hurt.
- Emma's meanness toward her sister.
These both stuck with me and made it hard to root for them.

I think this could have benefited a little more from Charlie's POV. That might have helped me understand him better and be more forgiving.

3.5 stars (rounding up to 4) because I still had a good time while reading even if the main characters had flaws I couldn't get over.

Ugh, this book! My heart didn’t stop thumping. The passion, desire, and love the author was able to create while keeping this book closed door is such a testament to her writing ability. All the heat without the spice.

I absolutely fell in love with both the male and female main characters. Charlie Yates is going to be long remembered. Both characters were so genuine and realistic, if you set aside the razzle-dazzle of Hollywood, I’d think this was a story of two real people who fell in love. The humor was also spot on…l’ll never look at a can of biscuits the same way again.

This was nearly a 5 star read for me but there was a stylistic choice that drove me a little batty at first (but admittedly, its charm grew on me and won me over) and the ending wasn’t quite the way I imagined it would go, and perhaps, if I’m honest, wasn’t how I wanted it to go.

This was my first Katherine Center read and you better believe it will absolutely not be my last!

My favorite Katherine Center book by far.

What I Liked:

Charlie and Emma's story is so heartwarming and endearing. I was kicking my feet, blushing, and smiling reading this (which was difficult at times since I listened to this while I was driving for work travel).

Charlie and Emma's banter is so good. Give me a book with good banter and I will fall in love so hard.

The relationship Emma had with her father and sister. Not just the good parts, but the difficulties (physical/mental/ emotional) that come with being a sole caretaker for a loved one. I cried so many times during these parts of the book.

What didn't work for me:

Not a thing