Book reviews are subjective. I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather to how perfect they are to me.
Flippin’ the Script by Aisha Ford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Description: Sabrina Bradley is the assistant to the assistant producer of one of America’s hottest daytime talk shows. As part of a deal for a future promotion, she agrees to sit on the panel of a series about ordinary people who struggle to keep their New Year’s Resolutions. But to become co-assistant producer of the show in a year, Sabrina must keep all of her own resolutions—including an ill-timed resolution that she will not fall in love!
My thoughts: I discovered this ChristFic author and first read four of her romance novels about twenty years ago. I recently reread ’em, and now I’ve finally gotten to what I think is the only other solo novel of hers, written around that early 2000s time.
I thought it’d be another contemporary romance, but I’d say this book is romantic contemporary fiction. It includes the perspectives of multiple characters and the different issues they’re dealing with, rather than just being a story about Sabrina and her love interest.
Now, some aspects of the plot I didn’t find the most convincing, including the fact that someone like Sabrina would agree to a workplace deal with unethical strings attached. I also didn’t find it believable that entertainment outlets and numerous fans across the country would have such major interest in Sabrina’s New Year’s goals and the details of her love life when she wasn’t already a celebrity—a music artist or movie star or someone whom wide audiences would already be primed for gossip about.
Yet, I still found the unfolding of it all quite entertaining and not too high on pettiness and “drama,” even considering the villain of the story. I grew to like Sabrina and her love interest more as I got deeper into the read, despite my frustration with some naïveté on his part and my wishing they’d both just say what’s on their minds at some key times. I’ll admit that in the end, I felt just a little shortchanged in the romance department, as the resolution isn’t a swoon-worthy one. But again, this isn’t exactly a romance novel.
I’m not sure how much the book’s salvation subplot was needed, but the whole aspect of it didn’t merely feel pasted in. And a part of it gave me a good and genuine laugh-out-loud moment.
In all, I found this read satisfying, and it seems to have turned out that I saved my favorite novel by this author for last.
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