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The Ending is the Best Part
A gorgeous, innovative romcom written by and for the BookTok community
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Yara and Xander are both writers on a major TV series. But that's where the similarities end.
Yara loves romance, but Xander doesn't see the point. He is only interested in the Kubrick, Scorsese, Tarantino. He doesn't have Instagram, hasn't read a book published this century.
When they're tasked with writing the season finale together, they know the episode needs them both - romance and drama, head and heart.
Can they put aside their differences to create something remarkable?
_______________________________________
Yara and Xander are both writers on a major TV series. But that's where the similarities end.
Yara loves romance, but Xander doesn't see the point. He is only interested in the Kubrick, Scorsese, Tarantino. He doesn't have Instagram, hasn't read a book published this century.
When they're tasked with writing the season finale together, they know the episode needs them both - romance and drama, head and heart.
Can they put aside their differences to create something remarkable?
- GenresRomance
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 2, 2025
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January 4, 2026
I really don’t want to be overtly critical of this because I know it’s the authors debut novel—but this is really bad.
I was intrigued by the blurb and I loved the cover, so I was really looking forward to reading it—and while there definitely were bones to the plot, the execution ultimately fell flat.
this book is marketed as being written by and for the booktok community—we can tell.
I should’ve really DNF when the fmc said she gets her book recs from booktok, but I preservered because it’s short and I hoped it would get better. it did not.
yana is scatterbrained and her point of view is all over the place. she’s SO judgemental, clumsy (in a wattpad kind of way where she’s tripping over thin air and somehow the mmc is there to catch her every time).
it truly felt like yana thinks the world is out to get her despite having a well esteemed job in TV—and at times she felt like a perpetual victim.
xander is our mmc who doesn’t really have much going on apart from serving as the love interest who—despite being hot and cold with yana at any opportunity—is secretly infatuated with her.
one of my main issues was that this is marketed as enemies to lovers. yana and xander are acquaintances—at most—who shared a kiss a few years ago, and have since had a disdain for each other.
if they just communicated like adults, literally all of their problems would be solved.
as I’ve said above, I don’t want to be overtly critical. I do want to give some constructive feedback that I hope the author will take on board for future books.
expand your writing. a lot of the sentences were: ’I did this, I did that’, and they would end abruptly or just tell us what was happening.
examples:
chapter six – I don’t really understand him. he’s always been like this. cold one moment, warm the next. sometimes I wish I could go into his mind and see how he’s feeling. truly feeling.
chapter ten - my alarm blares at seven thirty. I barely slept after the whirlwind of last night. all I remember is calling amira and maddie in a panic. they dropped everything and rushed over and tried to make me feel better about the trip.
chapter fourteen - I walked enough to last me the year. the minute I step through the doors to our room, I feel a rush of relief. after a long day of trekking through muddy trails, the only thing on my mind is a nice, hot shower.
the sentences are choppy at best—when yana felt panicked in chapter ten, we could’ve been told why she felt panicked and what triggered it.
the author could’ve expanded on why yana felt that way, but instead we were told her friends came over to make her feel better, and that was the end of it.
another thing is to not rely on current trending topics to push the story forward.
I, like a lot of readers, want to escape the world. I try to read and get away from apps like tiktok, but I’m being told the fmc uses it to doom scroll and get book recommendations from booktok creators.
there’s nothing inherently wrong with quoting something from the real world, but it gets to a point where it’s too much.
there was a reference to emily henry (don’t get me wrong, I love her books!), timothee chalamet, doctor who, tamagotchi, nintendogs, ali hazelwood, doomscrolling on tiktok, and the seven year slip—to name a few.
it felt like the writing was trying to appeal to a certain audience, and it just took me out of the story. how am I meant to take a book seriously if I’m being told the character gets her book recommendations from tiktok?
ultimately this was not for me, and it’s a shame because it held a lot of promise.
I was intrigued by the blurb and I loved the cover, so I was really looking forward to reading it—and while there definitely were bones to the plot, the execution ultimately fell flat.
this book is marketed as being written by and for the booktok community—we can tell.
I should’ve really DNF when the fmc said she gets her book recs from booktok, but I preservered because it’s short and I hoped it would get better. it did not.
yana is scatterbrained and her point of view is all over the place. she’s SO judgemental, clumsy (in a wattpad kind of way where she’s tripping over thin air and somehow the mmc is there to catch her every time).
it truly felt like yana thinks the world is out to get her despite having a well esteemed job in TV—and at times she felt like a perpetual victim.
xander is our mmc who doesn’t really have much going on apart from serving as the love interest who—despite being hot and cold with yana at any opportunity—is secretly infatuated with her.
one of my main issues was that this is marketed as enemies to lovers. yana and xander are acquaintances—at most—who shared a kiss a few years ago, and have since had a disdain for each other.
if they just communicated like adults, literally all of their problems would be solved.
as I’ve said above, I don’t want to be overtly critical. I do want to give some constructive feedback that I hope the author will take on board for future books.
expand your writing. a lot of the sentences were: ’I did this, I did that’, and they would end abruptly or just tell us what was happening.
examples:
chapter six – I don’t really understand him. he’s always been like this. cold one moment, warm the next. sometimes I wish I could go into his mind and see how he’s feeling. truly feeling.
chapter ten - my alarm blares at seven thirty. I barely slept after the whirlwind of last night. all I remember is calling amira and maddie in a panic. they dropped everything and rushed over and tried to make me feel better about the trip.
chapter fourteen - I walked enough to last me the year. the minute I step through the doors to our room, I feel a rush of relief. after a long day of trekking through muddy trails, the only thing on my mind is a nice, hot shower.
the sentences are choppy at best—when yana felt panicked in chapter ten, we could’ve been told why she felt panicked and what triggered it.
the author could’ve expanded on why yana felt that way, but instead we were told her friends came over to make her feel better, and that was the end of it.
another thing is to not rely on current trending topics to push the story forward.
I, like a lot of readers, want to escape the world. I try to read and get away from apps like tiktok, but I’m being told the fmc uses it to doom scroll and get book recommendations from booktok creators.
there’s nothing inherently wrong with quoting something from the real world, but it gets to a point where it’s too much.
there was a reference to emily henry (don’t get me wrong, I love her books!), timothee chalamet, doctor who, tamagotchi, nintendogs, ali hazelwood, doomscrolling on tiktok, and the seven year slip—to name a few.
it felt like the writing was trying to appeal to a certain audience, and it just took me out of the story. how am I meant to take a book seriously if I’m being told the character gets her book recommendations from tiktok?
ultimately this was not for me, and it’s a shame because it held a lot of promise.
November 28, 2025
Reading this felt like I was back in the early 2010s, reading some crazy y/n stuff
This girl has everything: a messy bun, extreme clumsiness that's mentioned every 4.532 seconds, she's nerdy and loves rom-coms, despite being so young she's excellent at her job and given an opportunity not even the senior writers got, she's got 2 bffs that constantly push her to be with the "bad boy" and otherwise don't have a meaningful presence in the story, even her boss is shipping them together...
Her parents are these big bad villains who don't support her career but by the end of the book, without any concrete interactions (or conversations), they simply change their minds and become these super fans of her work.
Despite them supposedly working together, basically all of Yara's ideas are approved and pushed on while anything Xander wanted is minimized. He's switching between hot and cold faster than I wrote this rant review, which is quite fast mind you. Their love story is not even a proper love story, just a bunch of misunderstandings and them both acting like kids.
I'm giving it 2 stars solely for that Doctor Who reference.
This girl has everything: a messy bun, extreme clumsiness that's mentioned every 4.532 seconds, she's nerdy and loves rom-coms, despite being so young she's excellent at her job and given an opportunity not even the senior writers got, she's got 2 bffs that constantly push her to be with the "bad boy" and otherwise don't have a meaningful presence in the story, even her boss is shipping them together...
Her parents are these big bad villains who don't support her career but by the end of the book, without any concrete interactions (or conversations), they simply change their minds and become these super fans of her work.
Despite them supposedly working together, basically all of Yara's ideas are approved and pushed on while anything Xander wanted is minimized. He's switching between hot and cold faster than I wrote this rant review, which is quite fast mind you. Their love story is not even a proper love story, just a bunch of misunderstandings and them both acting like kids.
I'm giving it 2 stars solely for that Doctor Who reference.
October 30, 2025
the ending really was the best part because god could i not wait for this to end
October 2, 2025
This book was written as part of 'BookTok Made Me Write It', where TikTok users got to vote on key aspects of the book. You can really tell because it just screams that it was written for the BookTok community - and I ATE it up.
Yara Aslan is a junior screenwriter working on a popular television show. Her parents haven't really been supportive of her job, thinking it is just something she will do for a while and they have hopes of her becoming a lawyer. When tasked with the opportunity of writing the season finale of the show and to have her name proudly displayed as the writer, she thinks this could just be the opportunity to show them that her career is serious.
When her boss Meagan pairs her up with her office nemesis Xander Woods, stating that both of their ideas will gel well together, Yara is less than enthused and doesn't want his name being listed first.
This book has everything you would want in a romance novel. It is closed door for those who don't like spice, it is enemies-to-lovers with the forced proximity and "only one room" tropes but it also has heart. Although just a short novel - I read it in one sitting - there is a lot of depth to the characters. Something that I really enjoy. It shows that you don't need lots of words to make someone feel. Each has their problems, it shows that relationships take trust and time and I especially loved the parallels with Yara and Xander and the characters they were writing about.
A very enjoyable read!
Yara Aslan is a junior screenwriter working on a popular television show. Her parents haven't really been supportive of her job, thinking it is just something she will do for a while and they have hopes of her becoming a lawyer. When tasked with the opportunity of writing the season finale of the show and to have her name proudly displayed as the writer, she thinks this could just be the opportunity to show them that her career is serious.
When her boss Meagan pairs her up with her office nemesis Xander Woods, stating that both of their ideas will gel well together, Yara is less than enthused and doesn't want his name being listed first.
This book has everything you would want in a romance novel. It is closed door for those who don't like spice, it is enemies-to-lovers with the forced proximity and "only one room" tropes but it also has heart. Although just a short novel - I read it in one sitting - there is a lot of depth to the characters. Something that I really enjoy. It shows that you don't need lots of words to make someone feel. Each has their problems, it shows that relationships take trust and time and I especially loved the parallels with Yara and Xander and the characters they were writing about.
A very enjoyable read!
September 26, 2025
The ending is the best part
Genre: Romance
Pages: 209
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
“that sounds like a you problem. I don't know how you've been burned, but I can tell you have, so now you think everyone else is going to get burned as well. But maybe you've not experienced just how beautiful love can be. You're a coward, you know.
You're afraid of what it means to let someone in.”
I really enjoyed this book, it was a bit of a slow burn which i sometimes struggle with but i really enjoyed it. I loved Yara’s character growth throughout the book as she struggled with family issues and trust issues due to her previous relationship. I loved how Xander teased Yara in playful ways. I could feel the chemistry between them as i were reading the book. Some parts were so funny and very relatable. I loved how it tells you a little about what they wrote for the show since that is a big part of the book. I also loved the concept of the book that Lamia used polls for her followers to pick the plot details as the book was being written.
Overall this is a fun quick read and wholesome with funny parts.
Tropes:
♥︎ Enemies to lovers
♥︎ opposites attract
♥︎ Forced proximity
♥︎ Grumpy X Sunshine
♥︎ Only one bed
Genre: Romance
Pages: 209
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
“that sounds like a you problem. I don't know how you've been burned, but I can tell you have, so now you think everyone else is going to get burned as well. But maybe you've not experienced just how beautiful love can be. You're a coward, you know.
You're afraid of what it means to let someone in.”
I really enjoyed this book, it was a bit of a slow burn which i sometimes struggle with but i really enjoyed it. I loved Yara’s character growth throughout the book as she struggled with family issues and trust issues due to her previous relationship. I loved how Xander teased Yara in playful ways. I could feel the chemistry between them as i were reading the book. Some parts were so funny and very relatable. I loved how it tells you a little about what they wrote for the show since that is a big part of the book. I also loved the concept of the book that Lamia used polls for her followers to pick the plot details as the book was being written.
Overall this is a fun quick read and wholesome with funny parts.
Tropes:
♥︎ Enemies to lovers
♥︎ opposites attract
♥︎ Forced proximity
♥︎ Grumpy X Sunshine
♥︎ Only one bed
October 11, 2025
"Its about love. The kind of love that makes you feel alive"
Thank you to Atlantic books and Bookramblerpr for including me on this book tour. Seeing my name in the acknowledgements of a book feels so surreal and amazing!
This book was a quick and easy read. I had such a fun time. I read this one on my kindle. This book centres around two screenwriters and bitter rivals, Yara and Xander who are assigned to write the season finale script. The tension and pining was cute and fun to read. The romantic moments between Yara and Xander reminded me of so many of the romcom movies I grew up watching.
Tropes:
Workplace rivals
only one room
Forced-proximity
No Spice
Thank you to Atlantic books and Bookramblerpr for including me on this book tour. Seeing my name in the acknowledgements of a book feels so surreal and amazing!
This book was a quick and easy read. I had such a fun time. I read this one on my kindle. This book centres around two screenwriters and bitter rivals, Yara and Xander who are assigned to write the season finale script. The tension and pining was cute and fun to read. The romantic moments between Yara and Xander reminded me of so many of the romcom movies I grew up watching.
Tropes:
Workplace rivals
only one room
Forced-proximity
No Spice
October 4, 2025
I received a Physical ARC in exchange for an honest review ✨
This one was such a cute read. Yes it was a slow burn but who doesn’t love that!? And also one of my favourite tropes enemies to lovers! I loved the banter between both Yazza and Xandy 😏 It’s a fun, quick read that’s perfect if you’re after a little palate cleanser between books! Even with it being a short novel I highly recommend! 🩷
This one was such a cute read. Yes it was a slow burn but who doesn’t love that!? And also one of my favourite tropes enemies to lovers! I loved the banter between both Yazza and Xandy 😏 It’s a fun, quick read that’s perfect if you’re after a little palate cleanser between books! Even with it being a short novel I highly recommend! 🩷
October 1, 2025
A cute and fun cosy rom com. You know where it’s going but you don’t care as it’s just pure feel good romance.
October 21, 2025
RTC (Goodreads cleared my review so I need to repost!)
December 17, 2025
Boring, terrible dialogue, didn't care at all about either main character. DNF
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