3.75 stars from me. As much as I enjoyed Mason being a cinnamon roll type of MMC, I felt like he was a bit two-dimensional and wanted there to be a bit more about him. When Mason and Sawyer were good, I enjoyed the writing, and when they weren't, it seemed to drag for me. The concept was cool, the chapter headings were fun. Also I found the timeline hard to get my head around - from the beginning of the book I got the impression the timeline was one way and then halfway through it felt different - I was confused at how weeks had apparently passed but it had been less than a week in reality for example.

All that being said, I did enjoy Mason and Sawyer getting their HEA, even if it was sort of predictable from pretty much the beginning!

Ergh. God. I wanted to make this book last longer and speed through it at the same time. It’s so lovely reading a book with a man who can express their love for love as we don’t get this a lot. But Mason, please, never change.

Sawyer and Mason were everything I love in a romance. Brilliant chemistry, flawless banter and a love that developed naturally whilst trying to ruin romance for each other. It’s such a good plot that I fell into it with smiles and flappy feet.

This story has been on my TBR but that was purely for the cover, but as soon as I opened my kindle and fell into the story, I was so glad I judged this book cover. What a brilliant debut and welcome to my auto-buy list, Erin Connor.

She a best selling author with writers block . He’s a disillusioned soap star actor who always falls in love with his leading ladies. His current leading lady and former love interest and friend is engaged and leaving Soap.
Mason has a chance meeting when the are stuck in a lift and she doesn’t recognise home as the soap star and their story begins. A well written rom com meet cute Will they /wont. they succeed as they both carry baggage from previous relationships and life. Slow burn great characters feel good read . 4/5

A hopeless romantic Hollywood heart throb and a cynical romance author get stuck in an elevator together. Sparks fly (between them, the elevator is fine). When they run into each other again, they decide to help each other out: Sawyer will ruin romance tropes for Mason, and Mason will give her inspiration for her writing. They definitely won't fall in love or anything...

This was an adorable homage to all the romance tropes. Definitely on the fluffier side of the romance spectrum, and very cute! Sawyer and Mason make for an adorable couple, with all of the (sometimes inverted) tropes and a lil 🌶️🌶️. Honestly, there's not much for me to say: this book should absolutely be judged by it's cover. If you like the blurb, you'll like the book!

Many thanks to HQ and Netgalley for the eARC.

if you’re looking for ;
He Falls First
Perfect for Romance Lovers
Secret Identity
Opposites Attraxt
Sexy Puns w Holiday Vibes
Debut Author
a lil Spice
this one is for you!

So heart-warming… I loved… Hit all the feels and had me laughing out loud… Will propel you to your happy place. A must read!… Feel-good romance… Truly heart-warming… Such a cute read! I started and finished in one day – what can I say?

Thank you netgalley for supplying this ARC.. this review is my own and my honest opinion.

Tropes:
- Rom com
- He falls first
- Fake dating/not dating
- Pact/mission
- Hidden identity
- One night stand
- Cynic x helpless romantic

I freakin’ loved this!!! From the get go I was enraptured.

This book had me howling! And I absolutely adored how every chapter started.

It was refreshing for the MMC to be the helpless romantic, the relationship between Sawyer and Mason was just SUBLIME!! I will always be a sucker for a strong female lead.

This fun, fluffy contemporary romance has everything you could ask for. It even lists the relevant trope at the beginning of each chapter which was super cute, especially if you are a big romance reader. Embrace the premise and you will enjoy this book!

Sawyer, a successful and personally cynical romance author, has sworn off love and needs to get to work on her next book, stat. But after she has a one-night stand with famous actor Mason, who falls in love at the drop of a hat, they keep finding themselves in each other's paths. Deciding to work together through a list of stereotypical romantic scenarios for opposite reasons, the two begin to fall for each other despite their best efforts. This is a bit of a quirky premise, but if you can suspend your disbelief and simply enjoy a fun book, it shouldn't bother you much.

Whether these two will end up together is a foregone conclusion from the very start. Their chemistry is obvious immediately, to the reader and everyone in the book (including the main characters). If you are looking for a will they won't they with crazy levels of brooding tension, this book isn't for you. If you're looking for a cute, funny, fluffy celebration of the ways we fall in love (and some spice - that tights scene!) this is the book for you.

I highly recommend this for fans of fluffy romantic comedies and anyone looking for an entertaining, feel-good read. If you're a sucker for romance tropes, this one has most of them.

Thank you to HQ and NetGalley for providing an eARC for my review.

Although she is a bestselling romance author, Sawyer is struggle to write the next one. After a bitter breakup, she wants to think of anything else but romance.
Mason - a famous actor also coming off the back of a breakup in the spotlight and a self admitted hopeless romantic.
When the two meet in an elevator, they instantly hit it off and decide to fix their "problems" - to fix her issues with romance and make Mason fall out of love with it so they complete romance tropes and cliches to try to help.
One rule - don't fall for each other.

This reminded me a lot of Beach Read, which coincidently I read before this one - not realising they had similar vibes. This had a very modern vibe which I loved (as a swiftie I also appreciated the references). The spicy scenes were great (will never be over the tights scene), but I'm gutted that I just didn't feel the chemistry between the two main characters.
I hate to be that girl, but Mason was just too nice for me. Whilst it was refreshing to read about the epitome of a cinnamon role in a MMC, it was just a bit too much. He was all in pretty much from the word go - I like a bit more grovelling and grumpiness.
Sawyer was great but I wasn't a fan of how she sometimes treated Mason, almost trying to make an issue for no reason multiple times.

This was still a fun time and a cute read but I just wanted a little more chemistry.

I adored this! I wasn't expecting to given the cover and I figured the trope had been done to death, but this really made me smile and root for our two. The slow burn, the genuine and adorable development of a lovely relationship- this is one I could actually see lasting long after the book was done. I loved the side characters and their plots and would be very happy if this became a series!

thank you netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

Sawyer is a romance writer who doesn’t believe in romance and is currently suffering writers block. in a very unexpected meet-cute, she meets Mason. Mason is an incurable romantic, equipped with the swoon worthy romantic dates and grand gestures, but this often leads to him falling first and fast and every girl running in the other direction. on a whim, they decide to help each other, Mason will shower Sawyer in romantic clichés to kick start her writing flow and Sawyer will ruin romance and bring Mason’s head out of the rose coloured clouds.

the best way to describe this book is ‘fun’. it’s a good time read with great banter, innuendo, cheesy clichés and cringey moments that just make you roll your eyes and smile.

my biggest issue with this book was in the formatting but i think this was mainly due to it being exported to my kindle from netgalley so it hasn’t taken any points off the book as a whole.

i can’t say i’m the biggest fan of third person writing, especially when it kinda switches povs chapter to chapter as it gets a little confusing but i quickly adjusted to it in this book.

i would be interested to read more from Erin, this was a great, light and fluffy read that brought the chemistry and well developed characters. i really enjoyed it!

Honestly one of the best romcom novels I have read in a long time and the fact that it’s a debut is incredible. I loved the main characters, all the tropes they explored, the banter was perfection and I loved all the mentions of other classic romcoms from Jane Austen to how to lose a guy in ten days. I absolutely loved every minute of reading this book and I can’t wait to read more from the author!

I really enjoyed this. It was a good twist on the stereotypical romance. As a huge fan of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days when it first came out, I loved the similarities in their approach and mindsets.

Both of the characters were very likeable and the development they went on throughout the book was great, especially Sawyer. The banter between them felt natural and was gave me some laugh out loud moments. Mason was swoon worthy in his outlook on romance.

The only reason it lost a star for me was because I wanted even more to happen in her quest to ruin romance for him, it felt too short lived for me. More dates, more unromantic gestures etc.

I’ll definitely be recommending this one when it’s released.

un•romance: a story in which two characters absolutely, categorically do not all in love… right?

Funny, sweet, heartfelt, sexy, swoony, thrilling. A rom-com about rom-coms. Unromance was a delightful read. I found myself smiling and laughing at many moments throughout, while also having my heartstrings tugged at through Sawyer and Mason’s more vulnerable moments. It’s a celebration of beloved tropes, clichés and rom-com films. It’s one for all the hopeless/hopeful romantics and a book you’re going to want to add to your TBRs.

Sawyer and Mason’s chemistry was top tier and I not only loved the development of their relationship but their individual journeys too.

Also worth mentioning, referencing What Dreams Are Made Of from The Lizzie McGuire Movie scored major bonus points with me 🙈

un•romance: trying to ruin romantic clichés only to become them (and that’s okay, actually).

📖 Romance Author x Actor
🎬 One Night Stand
📖 Grumpy x Sunshine (She’s the grumpy one)
🎬 Opposites Attract
📖 He Falls First
🎬 Festive Vibes

This was such a fantastic debut and I’m excited for what Erin Connor does next. Unromance releases January 14th.

Thank you to NetGalley and HQ Stories for this ARC.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review to come tomorrow! Loved it! A millennial love letter to romance books. Swifties, fans of Greys and Jane Austen - this one is for you.

The chemistry between Mason and Sawyer is great and the spice was good without being overly consuming and overshadowing the plot. I’d absolutely recommend picking this one up.

Also, thank you for the tights scene. You are doing God’s work

This book... this BOOK! It was deliciously perfect!

I knew the minute I finished chapter 1 this was going to be a new favourite. Watching Mason & Sawyer's relationship blossom and develop was just glorious.

The banter between these two was outstanding, the spice was hot, and the fun these two had together on their outings was brilliant (and honestly goals). The IKEA trip I think might be my favourite - by the smallest of margins.

I also loved the side characters, particularly Luis and Lily, and do wish we'd seen a bit more of them and Mason's family towards the latter end of the story.

Overall this book is a love letter to the Romance genre both across print and the screen, and it filled me with so much joy and warmth, and reminded me of how great a genre it actually is. I'm already itching to go back and read this all over again and will be the first book I tell people about when the ask for recs.

<spoiler>Also the entire New Year's Eve section - PERFECTION!! The Scream I scrumpt when he turned up at the door. </spoiler>

this book was PERFECT. Mason and Sawyer were the perfect leading characters and the spice was perfect!! trying to ruin every trope was such a fun idea and i was truly hooked!!

“Sawyer loved romance – devoured it – but she didn’t actually believe in it.”

This book had everything you could ask for from a romantic comedy. Intriguing plot, humour and loveable main characters. If you’re a sucker for tropes, this one has them all. No, I mean, literally, all of them.

Sawyer is a successful, love-hating, romance author struggling with writer's block when she bumps into famous actor, Mason. After a one-night stand, the two inevitably (and impossibly?) fall into each other's paths yet again, regardless of the giant city that they live in.

The characters quickly realise that on paper, they are all wrong for each other. Mason LOVES love, finding himself in the headlines over and over again, for grand romantic gestures which leads to his relationships coming to an end due to his enthusiasm for love. Whereas, Sawyer, gains success from writing about the kind of things Mason loves, but hates the idea of experiencing it herself.

In typical trope fashion, cue the ‘arrangement’. The two decide that they will work together to complete a list of stereotypical romantic occasions to provide Sawyer with inspiration for her upcoming book, and Mason can keep out of the headlines, to preoccupied with their antics to fall for another woman. However, Sawyer’s goal is to help Mason fall out of love with love, by helping him realise that the things she writes about aren’t as romantic as they appear in the movies.

Rule #1 – no feelings. Rule #2 – no sex. But as the two are clearly attracted to each other, rule #2 goes out of the window pretty quickly. And inevitably... As does rule #1. But the development of their experiences and feelings is one hell of a journey. I couldn’t put it down.

“What did you call your friends with benefits when “benefits” were against the rules? A ... friend?”

Not only was the back stories of the characters relatable (pushy mother and estranged families), but it was really hard not to fall in love with Sawyer and Mason. Sawyer is so funny, and Mason was giving golden retriever energy.

“The falling was fun, yes, but the problem with falling was you eventually hit the ground.”

I have not a single complaint about this book. It was perfect in every way. Highly recommend!

Thank you NetGalley and HQ at HarperCollins for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

I was so pleased to be given the opportunity to have an advance read of this book by Erin Connor on NetGallery.

Loved the description of the book, particularly the scenario, which is something slightly different to other romance books that I have read, since getting the reading bug back in January of this year.

Sawyer Greene is a New York Best Selling Author who has one slight problem.... Writer's Block.... She is behind in writing her latest novel and has her Publisher breathing down her neck, but cannot bring any ideas to life for her next novel.

Mason Alvarez is the swoon worthy TV Actor that has his own issues.... relationships, and why they don't seem to last. He's latest relationship with his co-star has blown up in the media and he has to try and keep a low profile, and told not to get into another relationship until everything has calmed down.

One day Mason and Sawyer briefly get stuck in an elevator whilst heading to a local bar and it is at the same bar they eventually start talking and end up having a 'one night stand' after which they believe they will never see each other again. Fate though intervenes and they meet again and it is at this point that they then decide to help each other. Sawyer to help break Mason by ruining various romance tropes for him, with Mason then helping Sawyer try and bring romance back into her life in order to break the writers block she is experiencing. Through this agreement they decide two things #1 No more sex and #2 No falling in love.

It is a fool proof plan, until Sawyer and Mason both realise that the more they become involved in their respective roles, the more they begin to realise that they could be heading towards their Happy Ever After.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down. Loved all the various romance tropes that this story covered, as well as the references to various romance movies, particularly in relation to Sawyer had her re-enacting certain scenes from Love Actually and Say Anything - this made me melt ❤️

❤️One Night Stand to Strangers to Friends to Lovers to Idiots to Lovers (you have to read the book to understand this 💕)
❤️He Falls First (Cinnamon Roll)
❤️Fate Intervenes
❤️HEA