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A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn

3 reviews

a_court_of_escapism's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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antigoniselena's review against another edition

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fast-paced

2.0

I had given this book a higher rating but in retrospect, I think I am going to lower it. (for those of you wondering… yes I did). There are a few things I did enjoy about this book. Firstly, that it was a easy read, perfect to have by the beach or by the pool. This was the mindset I had when starting the novel. I knew it wasn’t going to be something super deep. It was going to be a fun fluff romance with some spice. I enjoyed it at first, it was giving “Pretty Woman” meets “Fake Fiance” (that movie with Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence) with the added forced proximity trope.

Then there were things that really bugged me and I couldn’t ignore them. MC’s sister was CONSTANTLY defending her rich-af-fake-fiance’s behaviour and it really felt like “its fine because he’s rich.” which nope not for me. Another issue is with the spice in the novel. While normally, I would give it a 3/5 because there was a significant amount of spice in the novel… I want to give it a huge ICK/5 and that’s because it glorified SA. There is a scene in the novel where MC initiates sex with her Fake-Fiance WHILE HE IS ASLEEP!!!!! And while his character does say afterwards how much he enjoyed that… it really grossed me out. I think that those are things you and a partner have to discuss beforehand and they absolutely DID NOT in the book. I didn’t like this in 50 Shades of Grey when Christian Grey did it; I do not like it here. I don’t think we should be upholding these toxic types of double standards.

So while I do have another Meghan Quinn book on my TBR (because well I already spent the $) unless it really has a different tune on the SA front, Meghan Quinn will be going on my NEVER authors list.

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khloereads86's review

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

I enjoyed reading this even though Lottie could be a bit annoying at times. I think I would have rated it higher if it weren’t for the ending.

I really don’t like when they do the whole miscommunication big fight at the end, but then to propose as a way of trying to win her back - especially when they’ve really only known each other for just over a month?? All I could think of was when Chandler tried to do that in friends and Monica told him how stupid it was. But at least they actually knew each other well.

I wasn’t big on the lying thing cause it was really stupid (well really the whole contract was) but it was pretty funny and Huxley was much sweeter than I thought he was going to be.

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