It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne

This is exactly the type of book young girls should be reading and I love that Holly Bourne always challenges particular notions that are problematic in our society and dissects it, by putting forth real-life situations that we're all familiar with and/or experienced and calling it out. How it is not realistic, giving women false sense of security or hope and calling out the misogynistic viewpoints that are ingrained in our society. The story was about challenging the notion of romantic-comedies or romantic movies in general. I'm changing my rating to a 5 stars simply because as soon as I woke up this morning, my first thoughts were of this book! I am in love! Please.i just want a cute ease reading gods let me have this happy fun workplace scenes!! which I am always a sucker for.īasically, this book is such a revolutionarily good contemporary I might have to come back and five star it.īottom line: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! More please. and a romance that is secondary to the happily ever after, too a romantic plotline that is secondary to the other aspects of our girl's life

a group of female friends who might seem shallow but are anything but a female character who isn't nice to our female protagonist.without veering into girl hate and a bunch of satisfying scenes in which that heroine screams and/or gets hers a powerful, badass, damaged heroine who heals herself

a screaming rant against the line 'not like other girls' a takedown of the bit in The Fault in Our Stars when the characters' steamy makeout happens in the Anne Frank House Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Holly Bourne, where have you been all my life?Ī short, by no means definitive list of just some of the literally innumerable awesome things this book contains: But she still chooses to let him into her heart. When Audrey meets Harry, it's the start of a truly cinematic romance - or is it? Audrey knows that Harry is every movie cliche rolled into one.

Bad boys turned good, kisses in the rain, climbing through bedroom windows.

YA star Holly Bourne tackles real love in this hugely funny and poignant novel. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban oncheesy cliches. Becausereal love isn't like the movies.Thegreatest love story ever told doesn't feature kissing in the snow or racing toairports. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in loveas hard and fast as they do. But there shemeets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents' relationship imploded her mother's beencatatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house.

It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne