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Pretty Face

3/5. Het romance about the screen actress typecast into a sexy role trying to make her debut on the stage, and her super cranky director. If this were on the AO3, it would be tagged snark to lovers, workplace romance, we can't touch oh no, except we totally did anyway, family issues.

I'm enjoying this series. The characters are actual adults with adult problems and families that hit that right balance between complicated and charming. And the romance is one of my preferred shapes, where they both realize relatively early on that this might be the real deal, but at least one of them has completely explicable reasons to hesitate.

If I have a complaint, it's that this leans too heavily on that trope where someone is sexist to the heroine, and the hero gets to ride to the rescue. It's not as annoying as this usually is, as it's part of the hero's growing understanding of her, and how much sexism she is subjected to, and the ways she is resigned to it and the ways she isn't. Still. It's a little annoying.

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