This is a pretty straightforward 'how to structure a romance novel' book that I bought because I've had an idea floating through my head for the past year and I was sort of hoping that mapping it out via a beat sheet would help me actually write it. There's some good and useful tips in this book, but my reaction to a bunch of the beats outlined was more along the lines of 'oh, here's the section in a lot of romance novels that I dislike' rather than 'this is how the magic works!' I don't regret buying or reading it, and I think there's some useful structural advice in there, but it feels a bit like a paint by numbers instruction manual that doesn't actually result in a pretty or particularly interesting picture.
Grade: C
Grade: C
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