Sawyer Greene and Mason West meet when they’re briefly stuck in an elevator. Their attraction is immediate, but for different reasons, both are wary of love and relationships. They are, however, willing to take a chance on a one-night stand, fully expecting to never see each other again.

When they unexpectedly run into one another at a Christmas market, Mason believes it’s meant to be. He is an actor, and a hopeless romantic whose relationships always end in heartbreak and headlines splashed all over the tabloids. Sawyer on the other hand may be a romance writer, but she is also a certified romance skeptic.

They agree that romance is not in the cards for them, but decide that they can instead help “cure” each other. Mason will help Sawyer with her writer’s block and in return Sawyer will help Mason avoid all the trapping of love. The rules are simple: no (more) sex and absolutely not falling in love.

The rules they are determined to follow soon start to become blurry as they grow closer. Mason is having a difficult time keeping his feelings platonic and Sawyer is stubbornly refusing to believe she feels anything other than crazy physical attraction. I can’t say their behavior did not frustrate me at times, but they were both so charming that I never lost hope and cheered for them the entire time.

Unromance was a great debut by Erin Connor and I look forward to reading more of her work in the future.

This was a great, sexy, swoony read. I didn’t really connect with or relate to Sawyer, but I think that’s just me and other readers will. Erin Connor is a great writer, and I’m excited to see where she goes next!

This book was definitely fun, but it should have been marketed as a holiday romance. The connection between the characters was great. There was good tension and the plot flowed for the most part. The entire story took place over Christmas and New Year’s Eve, so if you’re a mood reader, save it for next Christmas. Otherwise, it’s cute! Go for it.

Sawyer Greene is a romance author who doesn’t believe in romance and Mason West is a cable TV star who is a hopeless romantic. In Unromance by Erin Connor (expected publication January 2025), Mason and Sawyer decide to address common romance tropes and ruin them together.

I loved the way the chapters were laid out as romance tropes and that the subtitle was always a witty and accurate interpretation of what that trope really means. Although this book takes place in the winter months, it isn’t really a holiday romance, and therefore it is good for any time of the year. Sawyer and Mason’s banter captured me from the very beginning and hooked me into the story.

I found this book to be medium-paced, although it was attention-grabbing throughout. I found it to be unique, in that the chapter introductions told you exactly what to expect, and it was a rom-com so you didn’t even really need that guide, and yet it still surprised me and blew me away. The book deals with both tough and lighthearted concepts that have shaped both Mason and Sawyer’s personality as adults, including true love, biphobia, heartbreak, and more. One character I wish we had gotten more of was Lily, she was such a great best friend and I could have handled so much more of her!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am very grateful to the Forever Rep who sent it straight to my inbox, and to NetGalley for hosting the copy. This review is nothing but honest, and I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

I love Sawyer and Mason, individually and as a couple. I think they complement each other and they have amazing dialogue and dynamics. The idea that Mason is romantic but serially in relationships that end badly is a fun contradiction. Sawyer may not believe in romance, but she isn’t cynical about it and it makes her character likable and relatable. The tropes that they complete are not the ones that are overdone, which is very refreshing.

This was such a fun holiday romance! Sawyer is a jaded romance writer with horrible writers block. That is, until she meets tv star Mason West and gets trapped in an elevator with him, the perfect meet cute. Except, she no longer believes in love. When the two of them keep running into each other, they decide they were fated to meet, to cure each other. Mason of his romantic notions, Sawyer of her writers block. So the two of them enter a pack with rules to help each other through a hard time, and go through all the romance tropes. I loved the main, and side characters, the character development, and the plot of this book. It was the feel good escape I needed this week! I haven’t read any books by this author before, but I’ll definitely be checking them out now! I received an ARC, and this is my honest review.

✯✯✯✯4/5 stars✯✯✯✯
okay this was SUCHHHH a fun read! i think this is actually the first romcom i’ve read, and it def didn’t disappoint. the plot, the writing, the characters and their banter, everything was pure perfection and i’ve never kicked my feet and giggled over a book as much as this one.
ℳ𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉ℯ𝓇𝓈：
Mason ~ i am so in LOVE with this man! he’s so funny and such a sunshine character, and he’s also a hopeless romantic (same) so, he’s become one of my new favorite mmc’s <3
Sawyer ~ i wanna be her friend so badddd. this woman is so sassy, funny, witty, total black cat energy. i loved her personality so much and her banter with Mason was everythingggg! they were just too cute and hilarious together. plus the spice?? WHEW!
they ofc had their fair share of problems and had to face their flaws in order to make things work, but it all came together perfectly and made these two even more perfect for each other (i want what they havee). im already thinking about rereading it after having just finished it so, 10/10 recommend.
Thank you NetGalley for this ARC <3

This book was amazing.

As much as I hate certain romance tropes, they fit in this book since this book was about how many romance cliché's you can fit into one story!

Mason and Sawyer were amazing characters with believable growth. They had problems that everyone could relate too (Sawyer at least), and you were really rooting for them.

This was Erin Connor's first novel and I can't wait to see what she comes with next!

The first thing that caught my attention was the title of the book. “Unromance”, strange to say the least but equally appealing that I knew I had to read the book.

Funny enough it was a wonderful story. A plan to have a one night stand only to meet again at a Christmas market? Surely nothing could go wrong hahaha…

Well by wrong I mean falling deeply and madly in love😉

This was a perfect holiday read, and as it says in the blurb - it looks like it came straight out of a hallmark movie which is exactly the vibes it gave. Humor, cheesy, swoony, and absolutely romantic. Definitely going to read again later in the month!

Ruining one romance trope at a time 😈
Thank you, Forever Publishing,  for the gifted e-copy of Unromance {partner}

Genre: Romance
Trope: all of them!
Format: 🎧📖
Pub Date:  1.14.2025
Pages: 352
Star Rating: ☆☆☆

"Over the past few years, I've dropped a lot of glass balls thinking they were plastic, sacrificing them for plastic balls that I thought were glass."

I loved the premise for this - a jaded actor who enlists a romance writer to ruin romance tropes one at a time. Why? Because he's hoping it'll keep him from finding the romance in all the "little" moments of a new relationship. 

The book's first third was so much - I enjoyed the character's banter and especially loved Mason. There was just something about him that gave me major romance vibes. However, Sawyer was a bit grating on my nerves. Something about her irked me from the beginning, and as the book wore on, I started to resent the way she acted and treated Mason. His character deserved a lot more than she was willing to bring to the relationship - which is not her fault; she was clear about her intentions from the start. 

My biggest issue with the story is that there is no character chemistry. The only thing Mason and Sawyer are interested in is having sex or thinking about sex. When your two main characters lack the sizzle that makes a romance steamy, it makes it hard to believe in them as characters or see anything appealing about their relationship. 

One thing I loved was the humor that was mixed into the story - I found myself laughing out loud on several occasions. 

Read if you enjoy:
🫶🏼 He Falls First
👏🏼 Opposites Attract
📖 Debut authors
🤭 Fun humor

Now, take this with a grain of salt because this is just my opinion of the characters, but there are a lot of glowing reviews out there, so I recommend checking it out for yourself! I plan on reading whatever Erin Connor writes next 🥳

Unromance by Erin Connor. This was a fun read. Honestly, the cover is what caught my attention the most with this book and the story did not disappoint.

It all started with a meet-cute…

Anti-romance romance author Sawyer gets stuck in an elevator with a handsome stranger, and it is decidedly not a meet-cute. But then she can’t seem to stop running into him, so maybe it’s a sign: he can help her overcome her writer’s block, and she can help cure his hopeless romanticism.

Each chapter is introduced as a trope or microtrope, which was such a clever and well-done element. With 32 chapters, I’m sure you’re thinking “too many tropes!” but the author really does pull it off in a fun way.

I really enjoyed this one. I will say it had more spice than I prefer, so I just did some skipping. But Mason is SUCH a romantic, and I love how it all tied up at the end.

If you liked The Rule Book or How to End a Love Story give this one a try!

Thank you Forever for the gifted copy!

Oh how I adored this book! This novel was just so much FUN, and such a refreshing take on romantic tropes.

Unromance opens with Sawyer, a cynical romance novelist, experiencing the classic stalled elevator meet cute with a hopelessly romantic actor named Mason. After hitting it off while discussing romance cliches, Sawyer and Mason enjoy one night together before deciding that they would be better off entering into the kind of pact that you only find in a romance novel. Sawyer promises to destroy all things romance for the charming actor by breaking down tropes, while Mason wants to push the anti-romance Sawyer out of her comfort zone to end her romance writer's block.

This book was so charming, and I binged it in under a day. The characters had great banter, were both so genuine, and they both had fantastic development throughout the book. The ending and characters were predictable but not blasé, and it was such a joy to read. If you love romance (and mocking the overdone tropes), I can't recommend Connor's novel enough.

This was one of the better rom-coms by a new author I've read recently, and it didn't hurt that it had a lot of elements I'm a fan of anyway (hooking up and then falling in love, queer heroine, celebrity romance). I did find Mason to be just a little unrealistically too much of a cinnamon roll for my taste even allowing for this being a romance novel, and the big misunderstanding/fight at the end was likewise based on a ridiculously unrealistic response on the the part of a character who's supposed to be a bestselling author, but neither of these things were ultimately dealbreakers for me and I would still recommend this one, especially for fans of Emily Henry, Katelyn Doyle, and other similar authors.

I ate this book up!!!! First of all, this cover is so stinking cute and I love it. Second of all, this book??! Hello??? This was a debut!? WOW I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you Erin!
Anyways, if you’re a romcom lover who also loves 90’s rom com movies then you’ll absolutely love this book!!! What can go wrong (or absolutely right😉) when a cynic and a hopeless romantic get stuck in an elevator????

Okay this book was so fun and so well done. The romance and the story were just so cute and had me enthralled from the start.

It was utter perfection and frankly I will never love a man in tights the way I loved Connor in tights in this book. (Literally can't get over this scene, gasped and giggling and kicking my feet).

Thank you NetGalley for an eARC!

Unromance was so fun and flirty and I really feel like it is going to be a big success. A love letter to rom-coms, we see Sawyer and Mason start as strangers who have a one night stand and then embark on a mission: get her out of writing slump and change romance for him. What transpires is two people who realize they like each other more than friends and aren't sure how to admit their feelings. I had a couple moments where I wasn't a fan of how Sawyer behaved, and I don't love miscommunication or not communicating at all, but the story redeemed itself at the end. This was a great debut romance for Erin and I am so excited to see what comes next from her! Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

There’s something about romance authors writing about romance authors and romance tropes (unironically) that absolutely tickles me. I think Sawyer Greene was EVERYTHING. So witty and funny, true laugh-out-loud moments sprinkled throughout which is just a nod to Erin Connor’s writing. The tropes as the title chapters was such a beautiful touch 🤌🏼 Honestly, I can’t believe this is a debut!

I do think this book could/should have been released a couple months sooner. It actually feels like a holiday novel to me. But alas, I really really enjoyed this one.

Thank you always to Forever for the opportunity to read this one early ❤️

This was a fun book! I enjoyed the characters and the plot. I loveee books with a romance novelist as the main character. The characters were lovable, the plot fun and unique, and I will be suggesting my friends read this one!

Thanks @netgalley @readforeverpub and @erinconnorbooks for the chance to read Erin's hilarious debut, Unromance. It releases on January 14, 2025.

Romance author Sawyer has terrible writer's block, but when she meets recently dumped actor Mason in a stalled elevator (classic meet-cute!) they end up having a one-night stand. But as any romance reader knows, you are destined to keep running into the person who was meant to be one time only. So, they decide to team up: Mason will help inspire Sawyer's next book and Sawyer will ruin romance for him. Foolproof plan, right?

One of my favorite parts of the book is that Erin writes about romance tropes at the start of each chapter. For example, "The Meet-Cute: The love interests meet. It's cute. It upends their entire lives." It's such a love letter to romance and is SO MUCH FUN ❤️

Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Tropes: he falls first, cinnamon roll hero, one night stand, grumpy/sunshine, promise not to fall in love