📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Charm Offensive
AUTHOR: Alison Cochrun @alisoncochrun
Publisher: Atria Books @atriabooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐰
Published: September 7, 2021
The Review 📚 The Charm Offensive
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I have been all about reality dating show books lately. Thanks to @Netgalley and @atriabooks for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The relationship between Charlie and Dev was so beautiful. The author really writes honestly, allowing the characters to go on a journey of who they are – both separately and together. This is also true of other people in the book, and they care for each other, growing as a community. It really touched me.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There were a few laggy moments, but really that was it.
🚦 My face at the end: 😿
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Supportive community
- 2. Discovered vulnerability
- 3. Honest view of human feelings
- 4. Unique POV
- 5. Reality dating show
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Charlie goes onto a reality dating show to improve his image. He meets Dev, a producer who believes in fairytale romance.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 The Charm Offensive
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.
Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.
In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.