It shows that the people you see at school, or at work, or in the street, aren’t actually what they seem; they could be a person trying to be something else, rather than just embracing who they are or someone unhappy in life and putting on a mask for others to see. Bourne acknowledges the complicated realities of being a teenage girl on the cusp of adulthood, portrays all the stresses and obligations a young adult must weigh even as she tries to figure out her feelings about friends and lovers.

I was a bit disappointed with the cover reveal but I’m hoping the story will make up for it and we’ll get to understand more of Chaol and his life. But, while I was reading it, I felt that Holly Bourne was so determined to counter the entire rom-com movies system, that storylines and characters didn't get their due justice. is second in the Normal series and is set in a truly stunning location and realllllly made me want to visit Yosemite Falls, inspired by the author’s own experience when travelling through America. While in her other books the stories were just normal - as boring and predictable -, here the normality is a positive thing: Audrey is a normal girl with almost-normal problems, and she falls for Harry, a boy with normal problems; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.I can't praise it enough, this is my first Holly Bourne book I've read, but if her other books are like this, sign me up! There aren’t enough books set in UK high schools and sixth forms and I so enjoyed reading a book with a setting that I could relate to more than the typical US high school stories. Audrey is a drama-loving, caring girl who takes up a job at the local cinema to escape from her life at home as her mother struggles to cope with her own relationship with Audrey’s father. reading is an escape for me - it's for me to forget about the pains of my own life, the burdens that I may be trying to avoid, and find the happiness of love with characters that I let into my life. However, their relationship outside of the cinema didn't work, with Harry being either full on or distant with no in-between, constantly hanging out with his friends, getting wasted and smoking weed.

She decides to fill her time focusing on getting into university and working her new job at the local independent cinema; along with deciding that all romance films are total fabrications. Meanwhile, Audrey tries to maintain a connection to her dad, even when it’s somewhat clear that he isn’t that interested in being in her life beyond formalities.

To begin, I got this in my bookboxclub subscription and for the month of November I've only been reading books from my subscriptions. I'm changing my rating to a 5 stars simply because as soon as I woke up this morning, my first thoughts were of this book! A firm favourite in a brilliant series, it runs parallel alongside Empire of Storms in the Throne of Glass series.

As a girl who actually really quite enjoys wearing matching underwear (I find it empowering, I like the feeling it gives me and I like having that little secret underneath my clothes) I can guarantee we do not care what underwear you’re wearing, if it matches, where it’s from, I do not care. We love imagining beautiful things in love and thats why we watch movies to just escape from the reality and somewhere in the middle we just start hoping for such love in our life. There is a new Holly Bourne book coming out in October but and I’m actually going to the launch event at Waterstones Piccadilly which includes a copy of the book!

Also here is your heads up that there are going to be so many spoilers, but isn’t there always with 1 star reviews? A wonderful and refreshing read of the truth of romance movies and how this doesn’t actually translate in real life. If I were to describe the story of It Only Happens in the Movies it would be that it's a unflinching raw truthful look at 'Why love is never like the movies'. This upset me because why are we viewing the act of sex as something that takes away from who we are?