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The Roughest Draft
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.
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behudd
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️I found this book equal parts entertaining & annoying.
The concept was really intriguing - two coauthors who had a falling out but have to write one more book to fulfill their contract - but I did not like the infidelity storylines & wish the authors could have come up with a different way to add that tension. And I‘m not sure I ever really liked the main characters themselves?
Anyway - not mad I read it; probably wouldn‘t recommend it.

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Shaaaannnn
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
Mehso-so

This was okay. Kind of dragged on and I found myself just wanting it to end. I didn‘t like the way they kept jumping from past to present. Meh, I wouldn‘t waste your time if you‘re thinking about reading it.

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kissmehardy
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Pickpick

I just loved how Nathan and Katrina kept circling around their characters' lives, because they're right: truth does exist in fiction, even if not exactly as it does off the page. And the fact that Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka are ALSO married coauthors added a fun level of meta! Interesting pacing, but not bad, and GREAT characters. #contemporaryromance

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NikkiKey94
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Pickpick

I can‘t believe it took me so long to read this book. This is the second book I‘ve read by these authors and I loved both of them so much. This was such a sweet love story and I devoured it. This was a past box from OUABC and I wish I would‘ve gotten to it sooner because the gifts were all so great!

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CoffeeK8
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Waiting for my food to come out of the ovens. Acts of service are so important for me and I‘m glad to be able cook for my synagogue.

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Nicki_K
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Pickpick

I loved the angst, between these 2 former co-authors and how they were throwing themselves together again despite their previous fall out to write another book.What unfolded was details from their history and what broke them up along with what reunites them.I loved the little life lessons peppered into it along the way, it felt real and at times raw in the best of ways.A very enjoyable read.#theroughestdraft #emilywibberley #austinsiegemund-broka

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suvata
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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#OUACC Once Upon a Book Club February 2022 Box (Write Your Own Story) • 3.5 Stars

Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would publicly divulge. They haven‘t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.

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Verity
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Hoping this will clear my post Funny You Should Ask book hangover…

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K.Wielechowski
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Mehso-so

Katrina & Nathan were friends & co-writers for years when they had a massive falling out. 4 years later, they‘re forced together to finish their contract & try to recreate their last success when things blow up again.
It was a little frustrating because you only get the smaller details of the original falling out but the twist was good. If you want Beach Read by Emily Henry but more literary & less funny, check this one out.
Finished 10/16/2022

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Graciouswarriorprincess
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Books 159 and 160 of the year. I will have read 160 books in 2022.

tpixie Amazing 2y
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mcipher
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Oh were you doing something? Let me get EVEN CLOSER 😹 (and those stripes behind Amelia are Edith….)

gossamerchild 😂 😂 Cats are SO helpful! 2y
LeahBergen 😆😆 2y
BiblioLitten 😂😂 2y
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BookNAround At least you‘re getting her front end. Ozzie does the same thing but with his back end. I have to keep pushing a cat tookus out of my face to try and see anything in my book. (edited) 2y
mcipher @BookNAround Ohhhh that is the worst! And then the tail always hits you!! 😆 2y
kspenmoll @BookNAround And here I thought I was the only one with cats who loved to smoosh my face with their “tookus”- especially while reading! 2y
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monalyisha
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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A romance-writing duo splits due to undisclosed circumstances, & must come back together to finish the last book of their contract despite their proclaimed hatred for one another.

I wolfed this one down…but I think my romance kick might be at an end (just as Fall descends; how timely). Some of the conflict felt fabricated & the villain of the piece was comically terrible/one-dimensional but there was plenty to like. 👇🏻

monalyisha 1/1: Though it becomes part of the problem later, I loved how Nathan & Kat communicated most honestly via their edits, how they could (literally) finish one another‘s sentences, how writing sex scenes together primed them for success, and how they refused to diminish Melissa (Nathan‘s ex-wife) as a person. Their friend Harriet, with her direct personality, was a welcome addition to the cast (and one I could‘ve had a bit more of, to be honest)! 2y
monalyisha 📸: by Cloud Lake Literary 2y
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kera_11
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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1. This book has 2 authors why is only the man‘s name showing
2. Idk, the connection between their lives and the books they‘re writing is cool but also like omg just talk to each other, I‘m actually begging, this was so angsty and avoidable. Didn‘t like as much as I thought I might, felt like a more complicated and less likable version of beach read by Emily Henry. And timeline was confusing jumping between 2 perspectives and 2 timelines

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RenePenn
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Mehso-so

Meh. I thought I‘d like this one more. It was good, but not great.

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Graciouswarriorprincess
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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I am diving into this @onceuponabookclubbox today.

I love getting these boxes with the books and turning the pages to see a post it note to open a gift.

Want to join in on the fun? Order a box and use https://onceuponabookclub.com?sca_ref=1243896.jDIDfIxGsi for a discount.

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Roary47
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Pickpick

4✨Okay this is the last one I finished this week I promise! Lol. Written by two writers about two writers. In the story the writers have history so we go back four years every once in a while. It is also in both of their perspectives outlining who is talking at the beginning of each chapter. They originally wrote a love story and in present day they are writing about their characters divorcing. There is tension between the characters throughout.⬇️

Roary47 The writing is amazing! I didn‘t want to read it too quickly because while I didn‘t like the story so much the writing was too good not to appreciate. Read from #OUABC so the gifts were big hits in my book too. Read this month as my #Doublebookspin @TheAromaofBooks also counting this for #roaringwolf @Littlewolf1 “cake” 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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Roary47
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Only 20 pages in and already loving it! 😍

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MaggieCarr
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Mehso-so

This one just didn't work for me. The settings and not enough time displacing the split time-line, maybe? Or the alternating POV in both present day & 4 years previous made it complicated to follow without returning to the beginning of the chapter to remind myself who I was reading. Throw in the first book and book currently being written and bam it's a perfect mess. Maybe I was too distracted while reading or something, it just didn't work.

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kathytrithardt
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Write Your Own Story | unboxing & reading vlog
https://youtu.be/QezhF6hGUL0

(Sorry for the lack of picture, the app crashes every time I try to add one, and has for months)

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sebrittainclark
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Pickpick

4/5

Best selling co-authors, Nathan and Katrina, are as well known for their falling out as their novel, but with another book already contracted they're going to have to find a way to write together again.

This is the rare enemies to lovers where the characters actually hate each other. It does make the first half of the novel a bit unromantic, but I enjoyed the second half as Nathan and Kat sort out their complicated history with one another.

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BarkingMadRead
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Because I like opening gifts as I read……
Use BARKINGMADRUN10 at checkout if you want to try out Once Upon a Book Club!

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Bookish_Gal
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Mehso-so

Not the best, not the worst. Did get the connection between the book they‘re contracted to write being literally their life. Did like how both characters described their past relationship, but did not see theirs together works. I don‘t have a lot to say, as it just felt like I was expected to know what was going on. I liked the characters better separate of each other. That they‘d be better letting the other go
#ouabc

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Bookish_Gal
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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There‘s a lot going on in the book, it seems. Two major authors worked together to write books. Something broke them apart, aggressively, and now they are being forced back together for one more contract book.
It sounds like a book on reflection and reconciliation. What I‘m not keen on is the notion of it being like a romcom story. I do hope it sticks to the getting over the past to be better more than romance. Hoping for bookish gifts
#ouabc

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Nessavamusic
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Bailedbailed

DNF‘d
This seems less of a romcom and more literary fiction. Also unlikeable characters so nope.

Laughterhp Oh no! I just got my hold in from the library! (edited) 3y
Nessavamusic @Laughterhp you might like it, just not what I was in the mood for 3y
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wallacereads
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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A story about a bookselling duo who cannot seem to find success without one another. After not speaking for three years, Katrina and Nathan are forced to bunker down in Florida to write a final book. What is the worst that could happen? I did not find any of the characters particularly appealing, but the story was entertaining enough to keep me going.

#FabulousFebruary

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3y
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mhillis
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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🍊 Current reads: Two books in translation—Straight from the Horse‘s Mouth (Morocco) and Tales from the Cafe (Japan)

🍊 Last book you couldn‘t put down: The Roughest Draft
Not my usual genre but I liked the dynamic between the main characters who were book cowriters, and I read it in a day!

🍊 Bake cookies!

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Beachesnbooks
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
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Teaser on the #botm app! I'm speculating it could be the tagged book but that's just a guess; any other guesses?

brittanyreads Ohhhhh I wish it was the tagged book!! But I think I know what it is....if you wanna know! 3y
Beachesnbooks @BrittanyReads Yes please share!! 3y
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brittanyreads I can't take credit. I saw it on Reddit! 3y
Beachesnbooks @BrittanyReads oo interesting, i haven't heard of that one! thanks for sharing! 3y
brittanyreads Of course!! The little teasers are so fun 3y
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Mpcacher
The Roughest Draft | Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley
Mehso-so

I do not read much romance , but during the pandemic have discovered the joy in a good rom-com. This book was not really a rom-com as I found it more serious. I liked it, but I think there wasn't enough to the story to really love it. It was a great glimpse into the writing process though. I gave it 3/5 stars.