A chance at love might not be out of this world in the next romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Mallory Marlowe.
Los Angeles social media influencer El Martin seems to live the perfect aesthetic life. But what El wants more than anything is to find something real to make her heart race in a way it hasn’t in years. She doesn’t expect that feeling to come from capturing footage of an unidentified flying . . . thing, much less from the charming Man in Black who keeps following her around.
Agent Carter Brody is trying his best to keep the Private Intelligence Sector afloat by dragging their hopelessly out-of-date office into this century, even though what he really wants to do is follow in his father’s footsteps identifying and hiding extraterrestrial sightings. He gets his chance after being assigned to El’s case and is stopped in his tracks not only by her ingenuity and confidence, but also by the unnerving coincidence of how her sighting looks eerily like what he saw right before a family tragedy.
The deeper El and Carter fall into the mystery, the harder it is for them to ignore their growing chemistry, as their own alien feelings become dangerously terrestrial.
Los Angeles social media influencer El Martin seems to live the perfect aesthetic life. But what El wants more than anything is to find something real to make her heart race in a way it hasn’t in years. She doesn’t expect that feeling to come from capturing footage of an unidentified flying . . . thing, much less from the charming Man in Black who keeps following her around.
Agent Carter Brody is trying his best to keep the Private Intelligence Sector afloat by dragging their hopelessly out-of-date office into this century, even though what he really wants to do is follow in his father’s footsteps identifying and hiding extraterrestrial sightings. He gets his chance after being assigned to El’s case and is stopped in his tracks not only by her ingenuity and confidence, but also by the unnerving coincidence of how her sighting looks eerily like what he saw right before a family tragedy.
The deeper El and Carter fall into the mystery, the harder it is for them to ignore their growing chemistry, as their own alien feelings become dangerously terrestrial.
Title: Love At First Sighting
Author: Mallory Marlowe
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Expected Publication Date: August 12, 2025
Review:
Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group/Berkley and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this title to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I'm loving the romances with a bit of a paranormal twist. This is my second one in two weeks and they are just so much fun.
El is an influencer who gets caught up in what she believes is and extraterrestrial sighting. Carter is an agent who has never been anything special When he stumbles upon El's video her experience is too close to what he went through when he lost his own father. He's determined to figure out the mystery of what happened.
I loved the set up of this story. The Men In Black/XFiles vibes were really fun. Much of what happens is quite fantastical and of course not anywhere true to what probably happens. But it was fun, nonetheless. Marlowe's writing was easy to read. I liked her use of the dual POV. Every scene easily pushed the story forward and the action was fun, even if a little unbelievable at times. The pacing did stall at times with the descriptions of the social media stuff but for the most part it kept my interest.
I really liked that El and Carter were so different. It shows opposites can truly attract. There romance was cute, though I thought they could have used a bit more chemistry build up.
This book is like Men In Black had a baby with XFiles and added a bunch of romance. It's witty and entertaining. It didn't require a huge amount of brain power and it's just what I needed to break things up with my more in depth fantasies I have been reading. If you're looking for something light and cute, with a bit of a fantastical element, give this one a try.
Author:
Mallory Marlowe is the USA Today Bestselling author of Love and Other Conspiracies. Seriously right-brained since childhood, her love of telling stories began with highly elaborate plots for her Barbie dolls and taking elementary school writing projects too seriously. She studied Writing for Film and TV at Emerson College. While romance is her truest love, she also loves to write across several genres from paranormal to fantasy to horror. When she isn’t writing, she’s likely reading, stuck in L.A. traffic, or fallen down a weird internet rabbit hole. She lives in Los Angeles, CA and writes video games by day.
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