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âThe Charm Offensive will sweep you off your feet.â âPopSugar
In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedyâreminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watchâan awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So itâs no wonder then that heâs spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchiseâs history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.
Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesnât believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, heâs a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, heâs cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, theyâll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.
Angelika
19/02/2023
Cute
Anonymous
13/01/2022
ich war zwei mal kurz davor, das buch nicht weiter zu lesen. das erste mal nach zwei kapiteln, weil ich mit dem schreibstil nicht klar kam; und das zweite mal etwa nach der hälfte des buches, weil mich der mental health aspekt des buches stark getriggert hat. im endeffekt bin ich aber sehr froh, dass ich dem buch noch eine chance gegeben habe, nachdem ich selbst aus einer besonders depressiven phase raus war. es ist eine sehr sĂźĂe story, wenn auch nicht so leichte kost wie ich erwartet hatte. die depressionen/angststĂśrung/ocd sind sehr real geschrieben, was - wenn man nicht grad selbst in einem schub einer solchen psychischen krankheit steckt - den wichtigen effekt der aufklärung Ăźber solche dinge in eine liebesgeschichte verpackt. alles in allem ein gutes buch, dass ich weiterempfehlen wĂźrde.