♥ℳelody's Reviews > Love Scenes

For a book titled Love Scenes there isn't really much of that in here, it's more of a footnote than anything. This book kind of falls into the trap of misleading illustrated cover and title that makes you think you are going to get a cute light rom com CR. But that's not really what I got. I would say 40% of this book is romance, the other half reads more like Contemporary Fiction or Women's Fiction. As much as I love a story set in a Hollywood setting, the author spends too much time waxing poetic about the craft of acting and emoting and giving tedious play-by-plays of shooting scenes, the director's artistic vision, or telling readers in exact detail about a conversation that took place 11 years ago between two ex-wives about raising a child. This felt more like a family saga about the workings of filming a movie with your own family. A famous family where everyone is an actor/musician/producer/director in some variety including the father's 2 ex wives who both have a role in this film. There's nothing the Ford family can't do apparently. I found Sloane's family insufferable to be quite honest with the way Morrissey tried so hard to make them all so cool and "typical" new age Hollywood with everyone sounding so jaded but politically correct about everything including her 11 year old stepsister. I felt the writing took itself way too seriously and had a pretentious/self-important tone that was borderline eye-roll inducing. Especially with how the heroine talks about her craft and her prestigious Hollywood elite family and her ex-boyfriend who wrote a whole album about her. I mean, who listens obsessively to the album that your asshole ex writes about you? <_< Major eye roll.

For what it's worth I did warm up a bit to the romance between Sloane and Joseph--it took a while to get there-- just wish the connection and intimacy wasn't so behind closed doors/FTB especially in regards to shooting the love scene that the whole book is marketed around. I know the story is more than that but it felt like the actual romance was an afterthought. And I wanted an ILY from the heroine. Having your character say "that's what I love most about you" is not a love confession. 😑 So yeah that bugged me.