We Met Like This
A Novel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Beloved author Kasie West's sparkling adult rom-com debut about a hopeless romantic falling for the one man she never expected
Can a swipe right turn into swept away?
Margot Hart is a hopeless romantic. That’s why she wants to be a literary agent—to help bring romance books to the world. It’s also why she hates dating apps with all her romance loving soul. She wants her own love story to be just as much fun as the books she reads—a mixed up coffee order, a mistaken identity. She’s not going to tell the story that she swiped right on future husband’s shirtless pic for the rest of her life.
The problem is that her most consistent relationship over the last several years is with Oliver, a guy she keeps rematching with on the apps. They’ve only been on one date and it was a disaster…well, until the make out session in the car before parting ways. But, she keeps reminding herself, a make out session does not a relationship make. And so there will not be a date two regardless of how witty their app banter is.
When Margot gets fired from her job on the same day she meets Oliver again, her life becomes a veritable shit show. Her dream career is dying right before her eyes, and Oliver thinks she’s interested in only one thing: a repeat of the hot make out session they had three years ago so she can get him out of her system. And maybe that is all she wants from him, because she and Oliver are definitely not compatible—he doesn’t hit the snooze button, he runs five miles every morning, he reads nonfiction, and worst of all, she didn’t meet him in cute way! But in her scramble to keep her dream career alive, by opening her own agency, Oliver is there with his golden retriever energy, more steady and helpful than any man she’s ever dated. Just when she thinks she’s overcome her app bias, she realizes that maybe it’s not her who’s holding back, but him. And his reasons are more than she bargained for.
Kasie West's romantic and sexy adult debut is full of witty banter, meet cutes gone awry and, ultimately, true love.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
YA star Kasie West makes her adult rom-com debut with this sharp look at how modern love stories are told. Margot Hart, an aspiring literary agent with the heart of a hopeless romantic, wants a meet-cute worthy of a romance novel in a world full of swipes and scrolls. Years ago, she had a disastrous first date with a guy named Oliver Gray, whose profile she sees every time she goes back to the apps. When work and family life knock Margot off course, guess who reappears at exactly the wrong—or right—moment? West has a knack for lively banter, relatably imperfect characters, and believable twists. And the spicy scenes are both fun and plot-necessary. We Met Like This is a witty and heartfelt rom-com about the tension between fairy-tale expectations and messy real life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
YA author West (Better Than Revenge) makes her adult debut with an endearing rom-com about the pitfalls of modern dating. Romance-loving junior literary agent Margo Hart longs for a meet-cute with the man of her dreams, but for now she's stuck swiping on the apps while struggling to disentangle herself from a toxic situationship with her boss and constantly comparing herself to her happily married sister. Fielding gross or tone-deaf messages from creepy dudes online is made somewhat easier by Oliver, a virtual stranger with whom she shared one disastrous date three years prior but whom she's matched with on every dating app she's downloaded since. The pair have never met again in person but frequently trade dating horror stories, romantic encouragement, and flirtatious banter. When Margo's boss passes her over for a promotion, she decides to start her own literary agency. That very same day, she unexpectedly runs into Oliver in person, sparking intense chemistry. As Margo works to solidify her career, she must also wrangle with her feelings for Oliver, a task made harder when she learns the truth about why their first date went so horribly wrong. West has a gift for witty dialogue and successfully mines the horrors of dating app conversations for humor. Abby Jimenez fans will want to check this out.
