From the publisher:
The Dead Romantics meets Book Lovers in this charming rom-com about struggling writer Ziya, who’s about to give up on her dream of publishing until she wakes up one morning to find a physical manifestation of her writing muse in her apartment.
Ziya Khan is a legal secretary by day, but she spends her nights working hard to be a published author. She’s spent the last few years trying to get her novel published about a young brown woman falling in love with a small-town brown man—but with no luck.
After one particularly painful rejection on the night before her thirtieth birthday, Ziya decides to give up her pen for good and instead just wishes to be happy. Then, the next morning, Ziya wakes up to find Aashiq, a physical manifestation of her writing muse, sitting on her couch.
Aashiq has materialized to help Ziya find her love for writing again, despite Ziya’s determination to keep her dreams in the past. But bit by bit, Aashiq starts to remind Ziya of why she loved writing and that her words matter more than she thinks. And impossibly, something more starts to blossom between them.
But as Ziya falls for Aashiq, he begins to disappear, which prompts her to choose: her art or her heart?
My thoughts:
Romantasy as a genre is quite popular, and Writing Mr. Right is more of magical rom-com, something you may have seen as a 2000s rom-com movie.
Ziya is very good at her day job as a legal secretary, but she dreams of becoming a published author. Her novel as been rejected many times for being "too small-town" and she is getting discouraged when she finds the physical manifestation of her writing muse in the form of a very handsome man in her living room.
She tells her roommate and best friend that Aashiq is her boyfriend because the truth is too unbelievable. Aashiq even follows her to work where she tells her coworkers that he is shadowing her for a new program. He gets Ziya to open up to her coworkers, become more friendly to them, even going to lunch with them.
As Ziya's world opens up, she finds herself falling for Aashiq and he for her. But how can this relationship work? And can he help her become the author she always dreamed of being?
I like reading books by diverse authors, getting to know more about their culture and family life, and I enjoyed that aspect of the story a great deal.
If you like your romance with a magical touch, but romantasy seems too dark for you, give Writing Mr. Right a look.
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