Don't hold the front page. Hold the guy who wrote it. Sunny Miller's dream job on London's Fleet Street has become a nightmare. His boss at the Bulletin hates him, the sub-editors keep putting comedy headlines on his attempts at serious journalism, and he's just been scooped by that posh bellend from the Sentinel, Ludo Boche. Worst of all for this working-class boy from Leicester, the lads in London aren't willing to date a guy who writes for Britain's trashiest tabloid. Apparently, they have standards. Up the respectable end of Fleet Street, Ludo Boche is literally making headlines. He's the son of the editor and the heir to an establishment media dynasty, so his success is assured-if he can stop singing showtunes long enough to get any work done, that is. There's just one problem: everyone seems more interested in using his connections to get a job at the Sentinel than they are in dating him. Sunny and Ludo come from different worlds. They are talented, ambitious, and in fierce competition for the same big story. The last thing they should do is fall in love. The Paper Boys is a gay romantic comedy ideal for fans of Red, White and Royal Blue and Boyfriend Material.
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3.5 stars. Very cute and very British contemporary M/M romance between the posh scion of a respectable newspaper family and the scrappy, chip-on-his-shoulder tabloid writer with lofty ambitions. There's a lot of banter, more vomiting than I would have liked, mutual heart-eyes, and a frustrating but somewhat understandable failure to communicate. Loses half a star for inexplicably underplaying some shady behavior by the father of one of the MCs and the death of a secondary character. Maybe it's a “keep calm and carry on” British thing, or maybe the author didn't want to inject too much angst into what is otherwise a lighthearted read.
