Nora Goes Off Script
As soon as I finished I started all over again. It’s that good.
Nora Goes Off Script one of those special books. The comparison to an Emily Henry title is 100% warranted, so if you like her work I think you’ll swoon after this novel too.
Why it’s not topping the charts in the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2022 is beyond me, but that’s why I started this blog. Because I’m often in the minority on Romance Planet. But the books I love, I love-love! I want to champion them forever and bang on all your doors and give you all the air kisses and draw your bath and put this book in your hands while I hand you your beverage of choice.
This is that story that will make you cry and laugh multiple times, and yet you’ll be overwhelmingly grateful for all it. Thank you, dear Annabel Monaghan for all the feels!
The sexy bits aren’t as smokin’ hot as books that usually top my list but the longing and the build-up is deliciously sweet and thrilling. Leo has to earn it, and by that, I mean Nora’s trust, while their mutual attraction practically knocks them both down onto the nearest daybed (which is in her tea house, spoiler alert). The journey to get there was fire.
I was rooting so wildly for our tough, disciplined, heroine main character writer, Nora. And Leo, our famous, loser-y over-indulged and out-of-touch movie star hero gradually redeems himself. Because the mythical power of love wakes us all up! Gah! I was so there for it. It was like he could not resist Nora, and he saw what he needed to do. (Act like an adult.) I love how their romance unfolded in a kind of no-nonsense way, even though it was also completely against the odds. I guess that falls a little into the insta-love category, but it worked beautifully.
The writing was so sharp and spot-on that as I write this review, it makes me me want to start over and read it again. Like, again, again. Maybe not every one of you readers is up for the single-mom-finally-gets-the-love-she-deserves-trope, but I’m of a certain age that I’m like HELL YEAH to the mental soundtrack of 90’s R&B hits. Plus her husband #1 was such a narcissistic leech, it was Nora’s time. I hope you love this one as much as I do.
