Director's Cut by Carlyn Greenwald

Director's Cut by Carlyn Greenwald

Published by Vintage on June 11th, 2024

Genres:  Romance, LGBTQ+, Contemporary Fiction, Chick Lit, Sapphic

Pages:  336

Format:  eARC

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★★

🌶/5 spice

Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but can she keep her cool when things heat up in and out of the classroom?

At twenty-nine, Valeria Sullivan is a celebrated, award-winning actress. But when her attempt to transition to directing is complicated by a bad interview on a late night show, Val decides she's had enough of Hollywood. Intent on pursuing her other passion, she pours herself into a guest professorship at USC, hoping to transition to academia fulltime.

Standing in her way is her co-professor, Maeve Arko, whose brilliance and beauty is matched only by her contempt for Val. As Val rises to the challenges that teaching throws at her, though, Maeve starts to soften, and soon sparks are flying.

Now with a job and a girlfriend she adores, Val should be happy. But Hollywood isn't done with Val quite yet. Her directorial debut, Oakley in Flames, starts getting attention, and soon Val has to choose between her obligations to her class—and Maeve—and a burgeoning directing career.

I wanted to love this one I really did… but between ALLLLL that movie theory talk and miscommunication I had the worst time trying to push forward.

A sapphic movie star who falls for a professor had the potential to be such a good book. But sadly the chemistry was not there for me between these two. Val and ??? (shit I already forgot the other persons name and I literally just finished it) just didn’t have the chemistry that I hoped for.

I feel like I was also attending their class because I learned way more about movie theory than I cared to. There’s also the problem of the miscommunication - JUST TELL HER THE ISSUE. literally the whole third act breakup could have been fixed with a simple convo. It really irks me when characters are this stupid.

Someone might love this one more than I did but unfortunately after taking LITERAL MONTHS to get through this one it just wasn’t for me.

Big thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinions.