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Love, Unscripted
Love, Unscripted | Owen Nicholls
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A film-obsessed romantic rewrites the script to understand why his "picture-perfect" love story crashed and burned in this wonderfully clever debut. Ellie had the quizzical eyebrows of Broadcast News-era Holly Hunter and the neon-red hair of Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At least, that's what caught Nick's attention when he met her on the night of 2008's historic election. A cinema devotee and lover of great love stories, Nick always fancied himself the Tom Hanks of his own romantic comedy, and when sparks flew with Ellie that night, he swiftly cast her as the Meg Ryan of his story. For four blissful years, Nick loved Ellie as much as he loved his job as a film projectionist: wholly, earnestly, cinematically. But now Ellie has moved out, convinced "the fire's gone," and Nick is forced to sift through his memories to figure out where it all went wrong. The fallout from Ellie's declaration that she "doesn't love Nick the way she used to" throws him back into recollections of their first night together. Their shared jokes, her wry smile, the "hope" that filled the night air--his memories are as rose-colored as the Hollywood love stories he idealizes. That night was a perfect meet-cute, yes, but was their romance as destined for a "happily ever after" as he'd thought? Is he really the rom-com hero he believes he's been? Or did this Harry let his Sally down? Peppered with references to beloved movies, Love, Unscripted explores how even a hopeless romantic can learn that in real life, love isn't, and shouldn't be, like what we see in the movies.
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BookNightOwl
Love, Unscripted | Owen Nicholls
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Mehso-so

Written in 3 timelines. You have the moment where the main character Nick meets Ellie the night of the election of 2008. Then you have the part where their relationship is over and Nick is trying to figure how everything went wrong. The 3RD part (The Intermission) is written more in depth of their relationship and how things were in Nick's mind.

BookNightOwl This book deals with relationships, friendships, and trying to figure life out when it seems that everything is falling apart. I felt the book was a little slow. I had a hard time investing my time in this story so it took a little longer to finish. I felt like Nick was a little annoying with his choices. The movie references I didnt get because I have never watched any of the movies. With that aside. I did find Nick and his sister funny at times. I did like The Intermission parts of the story where you get to know the characters a little bit better. Unfortunately that was the shortest part of the story.

Thank you to Netgalley and Random House Ballantine for providing an ARC of this book for an honest review.
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Preciouz29
Love, Unscripted | Owen Nicholls
Bailedbailed

I thought the premise of this book was cute, but the execution was not. I was expecting Hornby, but I bailed about halfway through because I couldn‘t get through it; already been a month of me trying to work through, but I felt it was long and the protagonist was lacking in any interesting qualities which it made it hard for me to root for him. Also, the back and forth time in time distracted me from the flow of the story and made it harder for me

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BookishClaire
Love, Unscripted | Owen Nicholls
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In episode 52 of the Brit Lit Podcast, we hear from Owen Nicholls, author of the delightful debut novel LOVE, UNSCRIPTED. He talked about some underrated romcoms, a little-known film he recommends, and more. https://buff.ly/2No8EJO

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