This was a cute romcom that I found enjoyable, but overall nothing exciting or new. It was definitely a comfortable read during a trying time.

When Harry met Sally, he needed somewhere to stay and she had a room to rent. I love romance books, I love romantic comedies, and I love forced proximity. I knew I would love it from the get-go. Opposites attract, forced proximity, grumpy sunshine, the only thing I needed was a touch of enemies turned lovers and I would be set. This is not to say that the book misses that, because it doesn't.

Nobody Puts Romcoms in The Corner caught my eye immediately. The title, the cover (THE lift, as Sally would say), the names of the characters, the premise...everything. This is romcom lover's dream come true, and when I recognized the author as the same one that wrote The Italian Job, I knew I would love it. It's about two people learning how to love, I think, and how to grow together.

I love, love, LOVE romantic comedies (my favourite one is 27 Dresses and I'll defend it until the day I die), and I always have. You could say I'm a mix of both of the main characters - I'm a romance writer and I love watching romcoms, but I'm also not sure the love depicted even exists. I hope it does, because it's beautiful and strong, but I'm just not sure it's exactly like that. Despite that, I love them and I love watching and writing people falling in love.

So here's why I didn't give the book of my romcom lover's heart 5 stars. I read books quickly and it helps me stay consistent in my opinions. I know writers have a lot of work for it to be talked about after a few hours of reading, but it is what it is. And what it is, is this: Sally has almost no character development. She starts as a romantic and ends that way as well - and I'm not saying she should have turned into a cynic, but I found myself wishing she would....compromise. Because, even after learning Harry's (very fair!!) reasons for not believing love is real, or even possible, you're telling me she should just stay exactly on the same path as she was before, not adapting even a little? I found that sad and I was disappointed in her, because her character was written in all the right ways, in a way it made me think she should have acted differently.

Yes, she eventually understood that Harry could love in a different way, but did she show it? Did she even learn it? Because, from what I read, she has that kind of epiphany but STILL depends on a grand gesture from HIM. And let me tell you, there's nothing I hate more in the romance genre than a male character that does a grand gesture when he's not in the wrong in the least. Sally still waited for Harry to grand-gesture her, still waited for him to say the words she wanted to hear, even if not in the same exact way she dreamed.

I loved Harry and I'll protect him with everything I have. And I hated that he was constantly bound by her believing him incapable of love. No, he could love - and he showed it throughout the entire book! But it was never recognized and I feel like Sally treated him with less empathy than he deserved. I felt like the book relied too much on the whole "this is gonna end" sense of doom where it didn't have to. They could have been happy. Sally could have taken her head out of her ass, as it were, and see what was right in front of her: Harry, loving her.

This is not to say that she was a terrible person, because she isn't. And I understand her motivations, but I still believe that she could have achieved more. For one: she could have been the one making the grand gesture. She SHOULD have, in fact. And it should have happened on New Year's, right after her epiphany, because that would have been nice to read - in a reverse When Harry Met Sally type of way.

In conclusion: I really loved this book and I plan on recommending it to my romcom lover friends, but I leave these words as food for thought. Sally, my baby, do better. Harry shouldn't have to do everything in the relationship and he shouldn't deal with your commitment issues disguised as bells-wishing.

I always enjoy reading one of Kathryn Freemans books! This one was no exception.

With this one I like that the author is letting the main characters take their time to fall in love. I also like that Harry is pretty oblivious to the fact that he clearly loves Sally. The ending was good and not to sappy. I hate sappy endings! The story was easy to get in to and kept me as a reader engage through the whole book. I find that when you read a 140+ books a year you sometimes don’t care enough to want to read the whole thing, this was not one of them. I also find that if a book doesn’t catch me in the first few chapters I probably won’t read it. This had led interested from the beginning.

I thought the plot with the TikTok videos was a bit much at times. But the plot overall was very good. And even though it wasn’t totally my thing I still think the author succeeds to make it a good plot and it too cheesy with the TikTok video theme.

I always love to read a book from an British author!