Nora Goes Off Script ⭐⭐⭐

Nora Goes Off Script  by Annabel Monaghan

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Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er-do-well husband Nora's life will never be the same.

The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He'll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it's the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it's the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.

Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story--the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.

Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit

The How/Why: Too much hype. The real question is why two Romance in a row. I don't usually do that. I started this one and at 7% I put it on pause because I just wasn't feelin' it. I still wanted fluffy so I queued up The Great Italian Holiday Mix-Up instead. It was a quick one so when I finished that I thought I'd give Nora another try. 

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🎉 Overall Storytelling? 🎉🎉🎉🎊

🎣 Did it grab and keep my attention? 🎣🎣🎣🎏

🗣️Would I recommend it to anyone? Maybe 🤷 If you like Saturday Night TV Romance

🕮 Would I want a sequel? No ➖

📚 Would I want to read more books by this author?  Maybe 🤷 

💣💥 📢 Content Warnings? No

🌶 Spice? No

🌪 Plot Twist? No

👟 Pace? Slow

💻 Tidbits ~ Not much to add about the story that isn't outlined in the About Summary. Her husband leaves her and their two children. She's a successful love-story-made-for-tv writer. She steps out of the box and writes a screenplay about her break up. It gets a movie deal. The cast and crew move in to film. The hot leading man stays for a week or three. They fall in love. He adores her two children and they adore him. He leaves for an audition and says "I'll be back" and then he disappears. Not as in missing person or in a coma, but vanishes from her life. 

The entire dramafest of self-doubt could have been avoided with a simple phone call. "Hey, you said you'd be back. Is everything okay? What's going on?". Don't people communicate anymore? 
There would still be a love story about a popular actor fitting in with a ready made family.  

I give this one a solid average. It was entertaining enough for me to finish it. The silent break up and then a very long time of avoiding each other, then the reason comes to light, then back in insta-love again... was just not my cup of tea. 

Apologies to those who loved it. Reminder that not every book is for everyone. 

🎧 Narrator: Hillary Huber

🎧7.0 hours 🕮 272 pages

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