Prime Time Romance is a rom-com you don't want to miss

When it comes to teen dramas, everyone has a favorite but Prime Time Romance by Kate Robb takes it to an entirely new level. 

You might recognize the author from her debut novel: This Spells Love. While I didn’t pick up her first book, I was immediately intrigued by Prime Time Romance. 

As someone who grew up on those teen dramas of the ‘00s, the pitch was spot-on and from there, I was sucked in. That’s basically how all of us feel when we get invested in those shows because from there, you can’t seem to stop watching. 

I’d like to thank Dial Press for sending me an ARC so I was able to read this one early and share my thoughts with all of you. 

Prime Time Romance is an utter delight from start to finish. 

This story follows our main character, Brynn who is 30 years old, divorced and just trying to make the best of her situation. Unfortunately, she ends up at a bar with some friends and ends up running into her handsome roommate: Josh. While they aren’t close, it’s clear these two are friends in a way. Since Josh is a gentleman, he doesn’t want Brynn to go home alone and he agrees to go with her.

Once home, Brynn queues up her favorite show: Carson’s Cove. It’s one of those soapy small-town teen dramas that we all love. However, it never got the ending it deserved and after Brynn makes a wish for her birthday, she and Josh end up in Carson’s Cove as Sloane and Fletch which seems like a dream at first. 

Quickly, Brynn realizes that she’s living the life of her favorite TV character but things aren’t exactly as they seem. Everything she believed to be true is not and things aren’t happening as she imagined they would in the show. Coupled with the fact that she can’t help but feel chemistry with Josh, things are as chaotic for Brynn as they are for Sloane. 

Brynn and Josh are both dealing with personal issues as Brynn is still trying to cope with her divorce and believing in love again. Josh is struggling after trying and failing to save his father’s business and also dealing with the grief of losing his father. It would be a lot to deal with in the real world but being in Carson’s Cove only seems to amplify the issues these two are ignoring in their real lives. 

Since it’s a romance, things don’t go unresolved as they did in the show’s series finale. Of all the books I’ve read this year, Prime Time Romance felt like such a breath of fresh air. It was nice to see the author paying homage to these shows while also poking fun at them and even, making her own show. Tbh, I’d watch this if it ended up becoming a TV series as it would be so much fun but that’s a talk for another day. 

Kate Robb is doing such fun things in the romance genre and I truly cannot wait to read This Spells Love and see what she does next. If you haven’t picked up this book yet, you’re truly missing out. 

Prime Time Romance by Kate Robb is out now where books are sold.