Review: A quirky and fun romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
Love, In Writing by Elsa Winckler, is about Margaret Parker, a romance author who meets sci-fi writer Graham by chance in an elevator. She is waffling there wondering if she should head home or spend the night at her brother’s place after a relative’s party gone wrong. But while she is there Graham walked in and mistakenly thought that she was following him.Then the next day Graham walked into Happily Ever After, Margaret’s book store, and mistakenly beliefs that she is still stalking him. Making Margaret angry and ends up kicking him out once she tells him she owns the place. Neither of them knows the other’s identity, but those meetings left them both interested and aroused.Later they meet as guest authors at a college level creative writing class. By now Graham knows who Margaret is, and tries to make things up while talking to the students only he ends up making Margaret angry once again. As they head out he follows her to her car and kisses her, bringing forth the sexual tension between them. Slowly they start to develop a relationship, but they are both too stubborn and set in their ideas to see the love growing between them.Since Margaret is a romance author she struggles to allow a normal man to fit the image of her dream man. (Boy, do I know what that means!) Margaret will stand her ground and not compromise on her ideas and values that easily. She wants the forever type of love, not the right now that seems to be the only thing on offer with most guys, so she is prepared to wait for just the right guy.Graham has been burned by a previous relationship and is not a clear believer of happily ever after. He is not interested is anything serious at the moment and he just wants something casual. Therefore, he tries to pull back from getting too close to Margaret before he is ready.As Graham and Margaret spend time together they get to know each other a little better, only they also use each other as characters in their respective books. Only in this writing where they ended up writing about each other without realizing will they be able to decipher their real feelings about each other.Graham and Margaret will have a tough time trying to make the other agree to their terms and beliefs. But their love for writing will bring their true feelings to the surface, as without their knowledge they are each other’s muse and end up being the main character in each others stories.For a sweet, quirky and fun romance, don’t miss Love, In Writing by Elsa Winckler.