A review by sarah2438
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

3.0

I think this had a really strong start. I wish that we had stayed with the setting that we had for chapter one, instead of doing a time jump into the 2020 pandemic. The emails were cute but it made for a weaker story. A common theme in this book is having good thing going and then pushing it too much. It was cheesey/cutesy but took that too far and became cringe. Our FMC was strong and independent but took that too far and became a bitch for no reason. The humor was taken too far and became forced and cringe like bad stand-up. The formatting was a bit odd as well-- it felt like the author was experimenting with some things that didn't entirely work for me and there was a lot going on-- divided into 3 chapters, chapter 1 divided into different times of day, chapter 2 being just emails, and chapter 3 being the closest to what I would consider normal.
Overall, this certainly had potential to do something cool and different, but it was just mid.