Review: Would Like to Meet

Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm torn about this book. It's not a bad book per se, but it could have been so much better. Here are the things that I really enjoyed about this book:
- I liked the narrative style/idea of introducing the chapters as if they were scenes in a script from a romantic comedy... I truly loved those little descriptions at the beginning that really reminded you of visual moments in rom-coms
- the idea of someone going through meet cutes going terribly wrong and write about them
- Annette and Ben... but mostly Anette

What could have been better:
- At some point it became clear where the story with NOB was going and it was hard for me to stomach it. I dreaded it and I really consider stop reading it. It's tirening reading about women being ripped off their hard work... we see it so much in real life that I don't want to read it in books
- The ambiance, the friends, the adventures, the so called triangle, while fun, were too similar to Bridget Jones and it really put me off the book a little bit. I think the author could have used different settings/friends stories and made it a little fresh
- the romance didn't take front and center of the stage and if this book is going to be promoted as a romance, then I need more of what we got. We basically get little to no interaction with Ben, who is the romantic lead (in theory). she spends more time with NoB, her boss and her friends than she does with Ben and to me, that was a put off.

Overall, a good first novel but it could have been a lot better

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