Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster UK for this ARC.

Jemma and Clara, 28 are fraternal twin sisters who couldn't be more different in character. Jemma is a very reliable ghost writer and takes the same book out over and over again from the library, when one time she finds a note in it directed to her. She starts corresponding thinking the other person is a woman as it's a romance book. Her flatmates Harry and Selma convince her it is a man, so she asks for his name.

Meanwhile, chaotic Clara has returned from the US where she has lived for the last five years, just in time for their mother's wedding to a woman. Due to lingering resentment, Jemma is not happy to see her, especially as she moves in with her, Salma and Harry and is a very inconsiderate flatmate. In fact, she is selfish, useless and obnoxious, and when we are later given some background on her time in the US, it is a 180 degrees turn around on her character that I personally didn't swallow.

Clara falls in lust with an actor called Milo who has the main role in a series based on Jemma's favourite book, renamed Book Boyfriend. She tries to get near him in a series of events that are meant to be funny but are just plain embarrassing and display obsessive behaviour unworthy of a 28 year old.

We get some potential love interests for Jemma in the form of mountaineer Aarav and grumpy librarian Mack, probably trying go get the grumpy/sunshine trope going, but failing spectacularly. I didn't find the book funny, just silly, and why do we need a narrator? We could have done without him and lost nothing. I tried to like the romance but it was barely there and I got no sense of some of the guys at all.

A lot of words to say this book wasn't for me as I neither liked the plot, the characters or the writing style.

2.5 stars

I think this is Lucy's best since Hot Mess! It's a total, full-out unapologetic rom-com - very zeitgeisty, very funny and very silly!

The switching narration between the twins works really well, just as one of them is getting a bit much, you get to spend time with the other one! The flatmates are fun too.

The only thing I wasn't;t 100% sold on was "The Narrator" who wasn't really needed IMO.

I want to read "Too Good To Be True" now!

Thank you for my earc of this book. I loved the premise but didn’t enjoy the writing style & characters so I DNF