56 pages 1 hour read

Betting on You

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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Background

Author Context: Lynn Painter

Lynn Painter is a well-known author in the contemporary romance and romantic comedy genres. She has had massive success across multiple demographics, writing for middle grade, young adult, and adult audiences. Her published or to-be-published works include Better Than the Movies (2021), Mr. Wrong Number (2022), The Do-Over (2022), Accidentally Amy (2022), The Love Wager (2023), Betting on You (2023), Nothing Like the Movies (2024), Happily Never After (2024), The Wish Switch (2025), Maid for Each Other (2025), and Fake Skating (2025).


Painter lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and five children. Notably, Betting on You is set in Omaha, pulling from her real-life knowledge of the area to set the scenes in the novel. Painter’s lucrative career in writing romantic comedies began with her whirlwind success with Better Than the Movies, which went viral on social media in 2021 and made her a #1 New York Times best-selling author.


Some of Painter’s most commonly used tropes in her romantic comedies are a mix between the enemies-to-lovers and friends-to-lovers dynamics. Her novels often particularly transition enemies into friends first before turning them into something romantic, lengthening the slow-burn romance at her novels’ cores by integrating the two tropes.

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