Hi there! Today we're celebrating the release for Summer Heacock’s endlessly charming and brand new rom-com, Crashing the A-List. Take a look!
After four months of unemployment, former book editor Clara Montgomery is still stuck sleeping on her little brother’s ugly couch in Queens. Determined to keep her minuscule savings account intact, she takes a job clearing out abandoned storage units, but is in no way prepared for stumbling upon dead snakes or trying to identify exactly where the perpetual stench of beets is emanating from.
When Clara comes across a unit that was once owned by an escort service, she finds the brothel “résumé” of a younger Caspian Tiddleswich… an astonishingly famous British actor. Her best friend thinks she should sell the gossip to a tabloid to fund her way off the couch from hell, but Clara instead manages to track down Caspian’s contact info, intending to reassure him that her lips are sealed.
Unfortunately, Caspian misinterprets Clara’s attempt at altruism and shows up on her doorstep, accusing her of blackmail. When the paparazzi capture a photo of them together, Caspian’s PR team sees an opportunity to promote his latest film—and if Clara wants to atone for her “crimes,” she’ll have to play along. Pretending to be Caspian’s girlfriend seems like it will be a tolerable, if somewhat daunting, penance… until their fake romance becomes something more than either of them expected.
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I read this book already through Netgalley (thanks to the publisher), and I'm sharing here my review:
Clara Montgomery was left out of work as book editor and she's now living in a couch in her little brother's apartment, working in a storage unit sorting stuff and getting drunk with her best friend every once in a while to cope with her new situation. In this new job she find some papers of a not-so-prestigious business involving someone famous, and after a drunk call she finds herself in a lot of trouble. And what kind of trouble, my friend!
Fast-paced, fun, heartwarming and sweet, that's how I describe Crashing the A-List, and for some moments I found myself thinking in this book as the perfect story for a movie.
Clara and Caspian were amazing characters until the very end. I loved every bit of this book, the misunderstandings, the ever-present hilarious situations Cas and Clara were involved, the friendship between CiCi and Clara, Clara's mom... but I also loved how the author developed Caspian, explaining why he acts in the way he did, and why was so important to Clara to get her life/job back in her own terms.
It was my first time reading this author, and I enjoyed her writing a lot. Can't wait to read more books from her.
