Bourne sugar coated nothing, which was a great perspective on love and sex without the usual rose-tinted glass. A word I am not repeating on a blog followed by my grandparents but I think you get the idea.Īudrey did seem a little hypocritical of her anti-romance mindset around Harry… but that was the main idea of ‘It Only Happens In The Movies’ (this is just me trying to poke holes in one of the best books I’ve read this year).

Previously, I’d predicted that the story would be the true-love-turned-abusive type and whilst I was wrong, there is a *special word* often used to describe boys like Harry. If you have any underrated romance movies that would make Audrey proud, let me know in the comments (I need more film recommendation for this new lockdown…)! I read ‘It Only Happens In The Movies’ with my friend over at Wacky Words, and one of the things we both agreed on was that we were just waiting for the romance to sour. There were so many quotes I could have included and I wanted to watch every movie that was mentioned. Nando’s…” – It Only Happens In The Movies Let me tell you, I wanted to print out some of those sections and stick them around my school.įinding some gorgeous abandoned house that the boy fills with candles The pacing was excellent between every chapter or so would be a short section from Audrey’s media studies essay on romance films. She had some brilliant social commentary which is, from what I’ve heard, something Holly Bourne is good at. And maybe there was a bit of cringing, but I loved Audrey’s narration. It’s so refreshing to have a female MC in a romance novel who has genuinely decent opinions, and acts in a way that doesn’t have you throwing the book at a wall or cringing out of your skin. I promise you it’s better than it sounds! I bought this expecting some chic-lit rubbish I could roast on here, but I was surprised by how great ‘It Only Happens In The Movies’ was. She recently broke up with/was dumped by her first proper boyfriend, so surely it’s fate when she meets Harry at the local cinema – a budding director who just happens to needs a lead actress in his new zombie movie… It follows Audrey, a feminist teenager whose family life is falling apart.

‘It Only Happens In The Movies’ was brilliant – I’m worried I won’t be able to do it justice. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy clichés. The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports.

Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents’ relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house.

It only happens in the movies review