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Book Boyfriend
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Twin sisters Jemma and Clara are falling for men they have never met. Jemma finds a possible romance in notes exchanged through library books. Clara sets her sights on the actor appearing in a screen adaptation, with far less interest in waiting for chance to introduce them.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Jemma has lived a thousand lives through books. The only life she isn’t living is her own.”Read the full description at Simon & Schuster description
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What makes it funny?
Clara tries to arrange encounters with a television star that will look entirely accidental. Her bookish twin has her own fixation: what the screen adaptation might do to a favorite novel, starting with the indignity of its changed title.
The comedy at work
The sisters invest in different versions of an ideal man: one imagined through private messages, the other admired on screen. Clara’s pursuit gives her fantasies an awkward public life; Jemma’s objections to the adaptation bring a reader’s fierce sense of ownership into the romantic guessing.
Try this if…
Book lovers who have strong opinions about screen adaptations have a point of entry here. The twin perspectives also make room for readers who want sisterly friction alongside the question of who will end up with whom.
Good to know
Chapters alternate between the sisters, with occasional passages from a mystery narrator.
A few distinguishing details
- Romantic notes passed through library books
- A determined fan engineering accidental meetings
- Twin sisters with different romantic fantasies
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