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Review: Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters


Book Info & Summary

Release Date: December 3, 2019

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Format Read: eBook

# of Pages: 368


Summary: Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms are unrealistic--and he'll only put pen to paper if Evie shows him that it's possible to meet a man in real life the way it happens on the big screen.


Cynical Evie might not believe in happily ever after, but she'll do what it takes to save the job that's been her lifeline . . . even if it means reenacting iconic rom-com scenes in public. Spilling orange juice on a cute stranger? No problem. Leaving her number in books all over London to see who calls? Done. With a little help from her well-meaning friends--and Ben and Anette, the adorable father-daughter duo who keep witnessing her humiliations--Evie is determined to prove she can meet a man the way Sally met Harry. But can a workaholic who's given up on love find a meet-cute of her very own?


Originally published on Ideally Inspired Reviews.


Excuse me while I cry at how cute this whole book was! Well, actually it was a complete disaster that gave me secondhand embarrassment, but in the best possible way. This book took all the best rom-com tropes and mixed them all together in one hilarious and devastating love story.


Evie Summers is a slightly neurotic assistant to a highly neurotic film agent and is tasked with making sure a hotshot screenwriter finishes his rom-com script or their whole agency is going to go bankrupt. Screenwriter Ezra says he'll only finish if Evie can prove to him that people fall in love in real life the way they do in rom-coms, so she sets out to prove that it can be done. What follows is a series of meet-cutes (the drink spill, the road trip, the shoe-stuck-in-a-subway-grate, etc) pulled from the reels of her favorite romantic comedies. I squealed each time a trope I loved came up or when the characters referenced some of my all time favorite rom-coms and was rooting for Evie to not only inspire a screenwriter and save her job, but find love for herself.


Evie was shy and risk-averse, so that made the fact that she was doing these outlandish meet-cutes and was willing to make a fool of herself. I liked her a lot throughout the novel, though she could definitely be selfish and oblivious and I felt that her awesome friends were sometimes too forgiving.


Her friends!!!!! Jeremy, Sarah and Maria were such squad goals. They were always supportive of Evie, wanted to make sure she was looking out for herself and were quick to call her out when she was being a brat. They are the friends we all want in life, lifelong and strong even when you're separated by hundreds of miles.


If you're a fan of rom-coms you have to read this! It's all the best parts of your favorite movies with a few new surprises thrown in. I loved it from start to finish and can't wait to see what else debut author Rachel Winters has in store!

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