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A review by torts
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
hopeful
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.5
Disney romance, complete with copious references to the movie (the yellow dress on the stairwell, the library, the bookstore ladder, the delicious gray stuff, the talking furniture...). I liked the publishing industry backdrop (especially when it acknowledged editorial assistants being underpaid, the industry in general being very white, and the whole working-on-books-potentially-sapping-the-joy-out-of-reading-for-pleasure thing). The non-whiteness and non-skinniness of the main characters was integrated into the plot fairly well, and it had the requisite happily ever after that incorporated career success along with romantic success, which was a nice way of modernizing the ick around a story about Stockholm-syndrome/inappropriate-relationship-between-author-and-editor. Ultimately not my jam, but probably exactly what book-nerd Disney adults (who are fine with very PG romance novels that include kissing and suggestions of sharing a bed but nothing more explixit) will enjoy.