[Review] By Any Other Name - Lauren Kate

Summary: With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie’s more than good. She’s killing it. Then she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work with world-renowned author and her biggest inspiration in love and life—the Noa Callaway. All Lanie has to do is cure Noa’s writer’s block and she’ll get the promotion she’s always dreamed of. Simple, right? 

But there’s a reason no one has ever seen or spoken to the mysterious Noa Calloway. And that reason will rock Lanie’s world. It will call into question everything she thought she knew. When she finally tosses her ninety-nine expectations to the wind, Lanie may just discover that love By Any Other Name can still be as sweet. (Pub Date: Mar 01 2022)

 

I like this trope. The not knowing who you're talking to over letters (or email), the admiring someone only to fall in love with the person when you finally meet... So my opinion is biased. But I found this story lovely. 

3.5.

Lanie has the chance of a promotion, but she has to force a book out of the romance author that she has always admired, a mysterious person whose face no one has every seen. She doesn't like much when she finds out it's because that author isn't a mid-age lady but a man around her own age, and the shock is so huge, their meet wasn't cute at all. 

The read is very quick, I just sit down and in a blink ten percent of the story has already gone by, and the plot doesn't drag. In fact, there is a lot to put in its place and yet it didn't feel overwhelming. Lanie had a fiance who is every item on her list to be her soulmate, she can't get along with Noah and feel betrayed that he is her favorite writer ever, and we also have cute moments of her talking with her grandmother, whom I loved a great deal. Thanks to her eventual bonding with Noah, she ends up finding out more about her late mother and family. 

This is a romance that flows well and has a great chemistry between the main characters. There wasn't an ultra impactful scene in it, unfortunately, but everything was grinning inducing enough. I recommend to anyone looking for a good chicklit romance.

Honest review based on an ARC provided by Edelweiss. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.

Rating: 4 out of 5.