Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monoghan
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.
Review: Nora Hamilton is a romance screenwriter who has turned her failed marriage into her latest script. Former Sexiest Man Alive Leo Vance is cast as her ex-husband in the screen adaptation and filming is set to take place in her real-life house. After shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora is stunned to find Leo hiding out on her porch asking to pay to stay for a week. It is those seven days that change everything.
This was such a cute premise and a fun love story. For some reason, Leo reminded me SO much of Justin Hartley's character Kevin from the show This is Us, who is also an actor but who mostly comes across as down to earth and funny and sweet like Leo. It was fun imagining him as Kevin Hartley the whole time I was reading! I loved that Nora gets a second chance at love in this story and thought her kids were written in a way that wasn't annoying or unbelievable the way many child characters seem to be.
I do not particularly love a miscommunication trope, but this one was relatively well done and actually felt pretty believable?? I did think this book was too short. It didn't give enough time to build up their connection or the plot in general, and everything ended up feeling a tad rushed. I think Annabel Monoghan is one of those authors that keeps getting BETTER and BETTER over time. Unfortunately, I have read some of her more recent novels first. So while I enjoyed exploring her backlist, I don't think this is nearly as good as her newer stuff. Still cute! But not as good. I also think my enjoyment was hindered by my dislike of the narrator's voice and narration style.
Stars: 3.5
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