Here for the Drama by Kate Bromley

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publication Date: June 21st, 2022

Reviewed On: September 7th, 2022

BASIC PLOT

Becoming a famous playwright is all Winnie ever dreamed about. For now, though, she’ll have to settle for assisting the celebrated, sharp-witted feminist playwright Juliette Brassard. When an experimental theater company in London, England, decides to stage Juliette’s most renowned play, The Lights of Trafalgar, Winnie and Juliette pack their bags and hop across the pond.
But the trip goes sideways faster than you can say “tea and crumpets.” Juliette stubbornly butts heads with the play’s director and Winnie is left stage-managing their relationship. Meanwhile, Winnie’s own work seems to have stalled, and though Juliette keeps promising to read it, she always has some vague reason why she can’t. Then, Juliette’s nephew, Liam, enters stage left. He’s handsome, he’s smart, he is devastatingly British…and his family ties to Juliette pose a serious problem, forcing Winnie to keep their burgeoning relationship on the down-low. What could go wrong?
Balancing a production seemingly headed for disaster, a secret romance and the sweetest, most rambunctious rescue dog, will Winnie save the play, make her own dreams come true and find love along the way—or will the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune get the best of her?

REVIEW

I wanted to love this book after “Talk Bookish to Me”, but I found it so hard to get into the story. I almost gave up after about 30 pages but I don’t like to leave books unfinished so I soldiered on.
It wasn’t until I finished that I realized why it rubbed me wrong. Winnie’s boss – Juliette – was just…. No… For me. I absolutely cannot stand women who bring down/slow down/halt another woman’s career, especially for their own selfish reasons. The “forbidding” of Winnie having a relationship with Liam (Juliette’s nephew) was another issue for me. Basically, Juliette’s character just didn’t sit right with me, even with her character growth at the end of the book… I just couldn’t.
However, I did enjoy the witty banter between Winnie and Liam (it took me a minute to realize this was the same Liam form Talk Bookish to Me!). Seeing their relationship evolve over the pages was heartwarming and I had a few “sigh” moments and few “giddy” moments when they where just too cute with each other! I was sad when they went their separate ways, but, it was necessary as both characters needed to grow and figure out their lives. They still got happy endings though so that makes me happy.

FAVOURITE QUOTES

Sadly, nothing really stuck out to me as “WOW” or “LOVE” or even “FAVE”.
It happens sometimes.

STAR RATING