Better than the Movies - Lynn Painter (Book).

Book: 7/52

Better than the Movies - Lynn Painter

My Rating: 2/5

My daughter was surprised when I raided her room for this book, as I had run out of my own books and couldn’t go to the library last week. I had no expectations from this one, as going by the title, it did look like a teenage love story, and I wasn’t wrong. Turns out to be a teenage girl's story of finding a happy ending with her forever crush, how she gets to him after dreaming about him all his life is the gist of the story. Then comes along her handsome hunk of a neighbour with whom she has a permanent tiff because of a single parking spot in the neighbourhood where both of them try to park their car, much to the other's annoyance. Things take a good turn when this next door good looking neighbour starts helping her land her crush. What happens next was a pretty predictable teenage love triangle with loads of referneces of love stories (movies) and a plethora of love songs. Later, things fall into the right place with the ending confirming a sequel :). It wasn’t a bad read at all, thanks to the side characters, her dead mother, loving stepmom and a cool best friend, they all make it a good time-pass read. I would have definitely given it an extra star as the girl works in a bookstore (part-time) and the author somehow rated Julia Quinn (Bridgerton fame) at par with Jane Austen (like really??), thereby losing one star from me. Although I finished it in three sittings, and yes, it did make my to-be-seen movie list a bit longer and gave me 30-odd love songs, which made it to my Spotify list. 

So far, there is no movie based on the book, but it will definitely make up for a good TV series whenever it may come. Do let me know if you have read Better than the Movies and liked it too.