
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, September 7th 2021
Format: ebook
Pages: 368
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.
Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.
In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.
My Review:
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Read if you like: Red, White, and Royal Blue.
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Dev works on a tv show that is kinda like the Bachelor and he believes that the show really finds people’s happily ever after. That is, until Charlie becomes the star of the show and they start falling for each other.
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I really loved how Dev and Charlie wanted to learn about each other in order to best support each other. They were so cute bit also they showed the complexities of relationships when you are being forced to fit a hetero-norm.
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CW: sexual content, homophobia, racism, sexism.

great review! i’m glad you enjoyed this one!
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