Not in My Book

By: Katie Holt

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Rosie writes romance novels and listens to Taylor Swift on loop. Aiden is a literary fiction writer who doesn't believe in happy endings. They're about to write a book together—what could go wrong?

The Hating Game meets Beach Read in this sexy and hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance from a debut Peruvian-Tennessean voice.

Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian American, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre or for Rosie.

Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must cowrite a novel that blends their genres.

The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other.

When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.

“Atmospheric, beautifully conveying the appeal of bustling NYC … Readers will not be able to put down this delightful, witty romance.”—Library Journal

©2024 Katie Holt (P)2024 Recorded Books

Generic Beginning But then gets AMAZING

This rivaled beach read by EH!! Worth the read and has a unique plot twist.

The line between love and hate does not exist!!!

Rosie and Aiden falling in love as they’re forced to work on a project together was everything I didn’t know I needed.

I’d read the actual book they co-wrote if I could lol

Love this so much!! The banter and swoony-ness of it all that would have aiden himself scoffing at lol
PERFECTION

Loved

I loved everything about this book - felt giddy with their developing love - except the FMC’s behavior at the end. I know there has to be some misunderstanding and break up - it’s part of the formula of a good romance - but this one annoyed me. Great book and great narrators.

WOW. This was banter filled F-U-N.

5 out of 5 Stars

WOW. I really, really enjoyed this one. The two main characters have such good tension and banter in the beginning and all throughout the book. I think that the enemies to lovers plot developed really well. It was a believable progression of the relationship. I did enjoy the way the love story unfolded. The story within a story aspect of the novel was extremely appealing to me. I enjoyed the side characters that were woven throughout as well. I thought that backstories were interwoven well and the way the two characters got to know each other was very clever and made sense for the story. I found myself getting caught up in the story and didn't want to stop reading. I thought this was a great debut novel and look forward to reading more from her in the future.

The narrator did a great job of bringing the story to life and making the two characters voices distinct.

Closed door modifications: 17, 24, 26

A fun listen!

The story was fun and I liked both the fmc and the mmc BUT the narrators seemingly random “Tennessee” accent was not it for me. Seemed to come out very randomly and was just a super generic southern accent. Signed, an east TN native