written in the stars alexandria bellefleur series

The holiday has to play a meaningful role in the romantic arc, and I don’t think it does here. Then I realized: a Christmas/holiday romance isn’t categorized as such just because of timing. The cover doesn’t suggest holiday romance either, so as I was reading, I was occasionally wondering if it’s a straight-up contemporary romance, or how deep we’d go into The Magic Of Christmas.Īarya: I was thinking about this contradiction for a while because it puzzled me. Tara: It IS a little weird! I didn’t check the blurb before I started it, so I didn’t realize it would take place during the holiday season. The blurb mentions the holidays and the New Year’s Eve fake relationship pact, but the cover focuses on the astrology/star element. Two important scenes (Elle’s Thanksgiving dinner in the middle and Brendon’s Christmas party in the end) feature the holidays… but it’s not a holiday romance. Easy peasy, except for that pesky chemistry between them and the fact that they genuinely like each other once they put that first date behind them.Īarya: The interesting thing about Written in the Stars is that it’s set in November/December in Seattle. All they have to do is convince their families until New Year’s Eve and then they can part ways, having gotten everyone off their backs for a while. They each have something to gain by faking a relationship for a couple of months: Brendon will stop setting Darcy up on dates and Elle will have someone to take home for her all-day, soul-sucking Thanksgiving family visit.

Naturally this confuses Elle when Brendon is thrilled their date went so well, and she demands a meeting with Darcy. Clearly they’re not meant to be.īrendon isn’t going to give up on his quest to help Darcy find love, so she tells him a single, teensy weensy lie, saying that her date with Elle went great. Despite excellent chemistry between them, that date goes horrifically bad, with Darcy getting judgy about Elle’s belief in true love and Elle accidentally spilling red wine on Darcy’s vintage dress. Elle is working with Darcy’s brother, Brendon, on a project and he insists on setting them up on a blind date because they’re both single (also, as the founder of the dating app company OTP, he’s a big believer in true love). Written in the Stars is an opposites attract, fake relationship romance between Darcy Lowell, an actuary, and Elle Jones, an astrologer.

And luckily, Aarya agrees with me, so we’re talking about it together!

Tara: This book is so freaking cute, it should be illegal. Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance

Written in the stars alexandria bellefleur series