![]() ![]() But maybe it’s women’s fiction – the Amazon bestseller rank matches it against books in “Women’s domestic life fiction” or “Women’s friendship fiction”, not romance. But if it is a romance novel, then unfortunately, it’s not good at doing what the genre is supposed to do. Is The Friend Zone a contemporary romance? The blurb at Amazon calls it “a hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy”, and the cover art and title are clearly pitched at readers of The Hating Game or The Kiss Quotient. ![]() This review was so, so difficult to write, and the reason for that was that I wasn’t completely sure what I was reviewing. Second, Kristen’s in a long-distance relationship. First, Josh wants kids, and Kristen’s already scheduled her hysterectomy. Josh and Kristen have great but unwelcome chemistry, for two reasons. Josh Copeland, new firefighter in town, keeps getting thrown together with Kristen because has the carpentry skills she needs in order to build the the custom staircases she sells to owners of small dogs, and because Josh and Kristen’s best friends (Brandon and Sloan, respectively) are getting married. Kristen Peterson runs a dog products business from her home, partly because she likes it, partly to spite the mother who wanted her to be a lawyer, and partly because her crippling uterine fibroids have made office schedules a challenge. ![]()
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