And so ensues a summer in New York with a group of friends split between two girls with two vastly different movie ideas. Recently returned from France, Sophia (in true hate-to-love fashion) tells Emma her idea is awful. The novel begins with Emma recruiting her friends to create a queer rom-com featuring a bisexual heroine for a film festival. Sophia’s parents are divorced, and she’s just been sent back from Paris because her mother has remarried. Sophia is cold and bitter – but she also has a more interesting backstory, and Emma says so midway during the novel. From the onset, readers may find Emma much more likeable.
Emma wants to find ‘the one’ and Sophia thinks she’s ridiculous. Emma is a die-hard romantic Sophia hates romance, preferring to be pragmatic. I Think I Love You is narrated by Emma and Sophia, two very different heroines. It’s a premise worthy of any of the good rom-com films name-dropped within the novel. And the premise to accompany the cover is just as good: two girls who don’t get on so well are pitted against each other in a film festival competition, with a twist resulting in them slowly falling in love. Many sapphic books of 2021 have been blessed by stunning covers, and Desombre’s I Think I Love You is one of them.
Suddenly their rivalry feels like an actual rom-com. until a real-life plot twist unfolds behind the camera when Emma and Sophia begin seeing each other through a different lens. The movie is doomed before they even start shooting.
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