The Charm Offensive

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Cochrun, Alison	4-week checkout	Due 01-11-2025
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"Ever since he was a kid, Dev Deshpande has believed in fairy tales, and he has spent his career crafting them for the reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise's history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns off-screen. That is, until the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming he's playing on TV. He doesn't believe in love (at least not for himself), and his publicist only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he's a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date thirty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he's cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off. Only Dev can save the season--and possibly the entire show--by coaching Charlie through every scene. Dev always gets a happy ending, and he knows he can find a way to help Charlie find his. Yet the more Dev fights to get Charlie to open up to the contestants, the more they begin to open up to each other, and it soons becomes clear Charlie has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. Travelling to romantic locations around the world, they begin to suspect they could both find their happily ever after if they're willing to let go of their ideas about whose love story gets told"-- Provided by publisher.

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LOVED IT submitted by bjkoch on July 15, 2022, 3:13pm great spin on the Bachelor trope

Delightful submitted by bookasaurusray on July 27, 2022, 10:15am An absolute delight. I don't watch a ton of reality tv, but that definitely didn't hinder my understanding of the content.

SO GOOD submitted by vtabor on June 9, 2023, 11:22am This was one of the best romances I've ever read! I loved the characters and the reality TV premise. It is so endearing and funny.

Good! submitted by yeager on July 28, 2024, 10:05am It took me a while to get a feel for the characters, but I ended up loving them and really liked their love story!

Incredibly sweet submitted by nelsonr on August 15, 2024, 10:02am I wasn't sure that I'd like this one, because I don't watch reality TV at all and I don't read a lot of romance, but this book was really sweet, and I really enjoyed it.