Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson Fiction for providing this book, with my honest review below.

The Perfect Rom-Com was a fun story that, while not quite the perfect rom-com, was absolutely an entertaining one. In truth the book follows Bryony, an ESL teacher looking to write a book simply to bring attention to her Grandmother’s ESL school in a bid to keep it open. After putting herself on the line and bombing with agents, her uncharacteristic direct talk hits a chord with Jack, a big shot agent, and she gets a secret job as a ghost writer.

From there we start to build out to a romance between the two while also dealing with Bryony’s bid to get her own book published (the school is still in peril) and dealing with the prima donna ‘author’ Bryony ghost writes for. I loved that Bryony had found her voice as an author and we focused on her growing confidence in herself before the romance got hot and heavy, so that it could not be attributed to ‘woman finds man and finds herself as a result’. I also loved the school storyline, especially Bryony’s care for her quirky students. While the wrap up was clean and neat this story was so sweet and just that much different that I could absolutely get behind it. I’d recommend you read this, perfect rom-com it may not be, it’s truly far better as a more nuanced story about a woman who starts to believe in herself, hard truths and all, and just so happens to have a good man waiting when she does.