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July 14, 2023 β€’ 23 mins

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πŸ‘‹ Helloooo swoon squad!
Welcome to While You Were Reading β€” a podcast for contemporary romance readers.
I’m your host, best-selling rom-com author Lisa Daily β€” and every week, I'm bringing you the best contemporary romance novels of 2023. Today on While You Were Reading, we’ll be talking with I WANT IT THAT WAY with romantic comedyΒ  author Karen Grey. She’s a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of vintage romantic comedies with smart heroines and hunky heroes. Drawing on a long career as a performer, her retro 80's and 90's romances are populated with characters working both on- and off-stage in theater, TV and film.

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Tropes for I Want It That Way

πŸ’ Fake fiancee

πŸ‘‰ Child actor trying to find his way as an adult

🀩 Hollywood star falls for a normal

πŸ›Œ Only one bed

πŸš— Workplace romance

πŸ€” Figuring out who you are as a person

Book Boyfriend Keeper Rating: 4 πŸ’πŸ’πŸ’πŸ’
Note: So many books, so little time! We only review 5-star books we πŸ’— LOVEπŸ’— on While You Were Reading. The book boyfriend keeper rating is Lisa's ranking based on her experience as a former dating guru on whether or not she would personally date our hero in real life.Β  (If she were single, which she's not.) πŸ˜‚πŸ’™ Β 

πŸ“š Episode TBR Pile:

I Want It That Way by Karen Grey: https://books2read.com/IWantItThatWay
The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily: https://books2read.com/CuttingEdge
Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras: https://books2read.com/IslandAffairRomCom
Riesling with My Roommate by Liz Alden: https://books2read.com/RieslingWithMyRoommate

πŸ“– About I WANT IT THAT WAY by Karen Grey

Fake relationship? As if.

I don't need a man to complete me, but to get my tubes tied before I turn thirty, I do need a husband. So when former child TV star Lukas Keith's desperate for a favor, the exchange of my services for his seems like a great idea.

I help him relearn how to drive a car, and he acts as my fiancΓ© for a few doctor's visits.

What could go wrong?

Bingeing 90's TV shows like Seinfeld and Ally McBeal have you jonesing for a time when email and cell phones were strange new things, and an app was something you ate before dinner? Then this steamy, slow burn, fake relationship, entertainment biz romantic comedy is just what the doctor ordered.

πŸ“– About The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily

A laugh-out-loud hockey romantic comedy perfect for fans of Helena Hunting and Pippa Grant!

Logan Rivers is a star pro hockey player for the St. Pete Slashers -- and he's in a slump.

He hasn’t scored in 3 games and it’s starting to freak him out. Enter Coco, who strikes a deal with an assistant coach to be Logan's lucky charm to pay off her training expenses as an Olympic figure skater. Every

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