Beloved author Kasie West's sparkling, seductive adult rom-com debut about a hopeless romantic falling for the one man she never expected. This deluxe paperback features beautiful designed edges; order now to receive it while supplies last!
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.
Title: We Met Like This
Author: Kasie West
Publisher: Macmillan Audio/St. Martin's Press
Expected Publication Date: September 16, 2025
Review:
Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for providing me with early access to this title to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I've always loved Kasie West's YA titles. They are sweet and fun and full of great teenage angst. I was excited to see how she would handle the adult romance realm. I had high expectations that she would pull me in and keep me hooked throughout. But it didn't happen as I thought it might.
While there were some fun parts of this book, I never could truly connect with the characters. They annoyed me more than anything else and I didn't feel like I cared about their story lines.
First, the relationship between the FMC and her boss gave me the creeps. I just didn't see the draw of her being attracted to him and wanting any kind of relationship with him. She knows it is a mistake but it just keeps happening. And it really puts her in a precarious position. I feel like she was taken advantage of but then never really does anything about it. She lets people walk all over her and never fights for who she is or what she wants.
Then there is the drop of her having a relationship with her sister's ex. It's just even more creepy and cringy. And I never felt their connection or chemistry between the FMC and MMC, despite their history. They struck me more as friends than anything else. I feel like these relationships were thrown in for the wow factor rather than being essential to the plot or the growth of the FMC.
Add to that the fact that I was totally and completely bored for most if not all of the book and I just didn't love any of it at all. I tried, I really did. I did audio and then switched to the Kindle version. But it didn't matter. The voices of the characters droned on.
Then there was the miscommunication trope which is sewn through almost every part of the book. In most cases I enjoy this type of trope, even if it makes me want to smack the characters. In this book, the miscommunication just keeps coming and coming and just gets annoying.
And the book is toted as a romcom but I didn't laugh, not once, during this one. Where was the banter? Where was the fun? I wanted it! I craved it. But it fell flat.
There was so much telling and not enough showing. How many times can the reader be told the two characters have insane chemistry? Too many, in my opinion.
And on top of all of the above I just didn't like the narrator, Katie Bloomwood. This is my first book with her and she didn't make me like any of the characters at all. No inflection in her voice, flat tone, just all around boring.
I will say the representation of the dating apps is spot on. It's hard to date in this day and age.
If you're looking for an adult romcom with a strong female characters who learns her worth, don't dive into this one. It definitely reads more YA than adult. It had it's moments but overall just made me want to throw my kindle or phone across the room at all the wrongness that went on. I honestly thought of DNFing this book more times than not and that made me really sad. Sometimes authors just don't hit it right in a new genre and need to work a little more to make it happen. I'm hoping this is a one off for West and any future adult stories will be more well fleshed out and hold my interest.
Author:
I write YA and adult romance novels. I eat chocolate cinnamon bears. Sometimes I go crazy and do both at the same time. A few of my works are: SUNKISSED, PS I LIKE YOU, MOMENT OF TRUTH, WE MET LIKE THIS, and more. My agent is the talented and funny Michelle Wolfson.
