Actresses. Closeted actresses. Co-stars. Part fake
relationship. Ice queen. So many tropes in this one.
Elizabeth Thornton, a British import to USA has a starring
role in a popular TV medical drama series. A past altercation with the script
writers has seen her character in the series transform into a villain and she
is now the most hated villain in the USA receiving a ton of hate messages every
day. It doesn’t help that she is also dubbed ‘difficult’ and ‘Brit Bitch’. She
is waiting to be written out of the series soon while maintaining her privacy,
which happens to be very important to her because she is a lesbian. Summer
Hayes, a former child star is trying to break out of her ingénue mould into
more adult roles and her role in the series is going to be the stepping stone
to that. Summer has a teen crush on Elizabeth ever since she’d seen the latter
performing on stage. Starry-eyed Summer tries to reach out to Elizabeth and
form some kind of a cordial relationship with her but is rebuffed and insulted
at every turn. That is, till Elizabeth needs Summer to land a role.
We’re a little conflicted about how to rate this one. We
loved Summer. We hated Elizabeth. We think that the author has done a great job
of not breaking character and keeping Elizabeth dislikeable all through the
book (even at the end of it she still is less giving, still overbearing and still
something of a user especially when it comes to Summer); but we like our romances
to be, you know, more romantic.
This was probably the only romance where we were not rooting
for the MCs to get together. Summer was too good, too warm, too nice for
Elizabeth and should have either got someone better or Elizabeth needed to
break character.
A good read in the ice queen trope niche, but not a heart-warming
romance that we hoped for.
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