This book is a love letter to romantasy, and I truly wanted to love it. Unfortunately it just didn’t work for me, and I had to put it down at the 40% mark. I gave it two solid days of effort, but in the end, I couldn’t push through.

As a huge fan of romantasy and someone who has enjoyed other works by this author duo (The Roughest Draft being one of my all-time favorites) I went in with high hopes. But the FMC’s quirkiness felt overdone and unrealistic, juvenile even. Also, the constant references to the fantasy books were tiresome and disconnected me to the story.

Almost halfway through the book and there wasn’t even an inkling of chemistry between the main characters. In fact, Jennifer’s brief interaction with the actor playing Val, was far more engaging than anything she shared with Scot.

This isn’t a bad book by any means, I’m certain many readers will adore it. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t the right fit for me

All I want for Christmas is a book themed event like that!

I loved the theme, the program, the community and everything on that campus. I wanted to be there 😭. Jennifer’s new friends were amazing, her roommate was hilarious and the actor playing Val was the cutest and he deserves a HEA.

So the background was great, but the romance itself unfortunately less so. It wasn’t bad, but there was very little magic. The pacing was off, they turned from sworn enemies to lovers in no time and I didn’t exactly understand why. On top of that the reason why they were “enemies” in the first place didn’t score Scott any points either, so, despite the title, he wasn’t a book boyfriend material and I’m docking a star for it.

Also, there is no epilogue! I need it, I need love declarations 😭!

I would love to read about Amelia and her book boyfriend 😏.

Overall still four stars.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.