This book is a composition the author played by the strings of our emotional cords to present us the sweetest harmony!Īt some moments I just only want to scream at Katrina and Nathan stop hiding behind the secure walls to protect their hearts and run to each other! The way they pour their souls on the pages, sharing their intimate feelings by hiding behind the dialogues of fictional characters, the powerful and purely intense attraction they feel for each other made me hyperventilate and sigh for thousand times! The blasting chemistry between Katrina and Nathan activated the smoke alarm at my house! Ps, this is a better take on Beach Read and i'm not afraid to say it I don't think this will be on my best books of the year list but it is a 5 star read for me. but it felt real and raw and had elements of the kind of story i'd like to write for myself one day. I enjoy a giggle as much as the next bitch but the romances i tend to swoon for are the angsty kind. but i was pretty immediately assuaged by the angst and tension. i was fairly discontented myself at picking it up and realizing the font was just a little too small and the prose a little too inaccessible for the kind of book i was hoping to read when i picked it up yesterday. This is an, at times, irritatingly literary take on a romance novel. if i could guess, i would bet that the majority of the middling reviews for this book expected the summer romcom that the cover (and the blurb which i have now read lol) promised. i hardly read the blurb and knew nothing of this author duo's YA titles so i went in with absolutely no expectations and honestly i'm glad for that.

that.īecause i really, unabashedly, enjoyed this book. I started to read the reviews before i went to write my own and i have got. While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.įacing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public.

Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down.

The roughest draft book