We Met Like This by Kasie West

  

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre:  Romance, Contemporary Romance
Content: Strong Language, several descriptive sex and make out scenes

 

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 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 a 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.
 

 

I've read and liked some of Kasie West's YA books, so I was thrilled to find out she was writing an adult romance book. Because her YA books are sweet romance, I automatically assumed this would be sweet romance as well. Needless to say, when I read the opening paragraph I realized that wasn't the case. This book is spicy, and it's spicy from the very beginning. I was really wanting to read a sweet romance written for adults because that's what I like, but I stuck with this and read the whole thing anyway. It ended up growing on me. 

My biggest complaint about this book is the main character, Margot. She comes off as desperate and horny. I had a hard time liking her, especially when she lets her boss use her the way she does. Even after she knows it, she still ends up having to talk herself out of letting him. She did eventually grow on me but I wish she had been written differently. 

I really liked the main male character, Oliver a lot. He's the reason I'm rating this book three stars instead of two. I liked that despite the spicy beginning between these two characters, the book actually ended up taking the slow burn route before it got spicy again. I liked the banter of the messages between them and the way the relationship evolved.

 

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with and ARC of this book.