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A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn

11 reviews

thisteachreads's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was my first Meghan Quinn story and I figured I’d enjoy it because I appreciate the tropes of the story.

One thing I was not prepared for was the involvement of pregnancy in this story, so be warned.

I have mixed feelings on the book.

Things I enjoyed include: the funny banter between Hux and Lottie, the slow burn sexiness of this story and the alpha possessiveness of Hux with Lottie.

Things I really didn’t enjoy include: Lottie’s absolute fixation on how Angela is a terrible friend and screwed her over (girl… you knew this for ages, get over it…), her inability to stop crying at the end after Hux accused her of telling Ellie (I get it, you’re betrayed and sad, but that you can’t stop crying for 24 hours after a few weeks seems a bit… much), the fake pregnancy angle (again, why?!) and the absolute robotic nature of Hux throughout most of the story.

The potential for more was here and it isn’t going to stop me from
Checking out more of her stories, because the writing wasn’t bad and the spice was nice, but this story did require you to suspend belief in realistic timelines and to believe that a handsome, rich, billionaire wouldn’t have women knocking down his door.

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siobhankeira's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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rebakesl's review against another edition

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funny tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

Ugh, I can’t believe I actually made it through this. The toxicity abounds! Possibly billionaire romances are not for me if they’re all like this. The primary relationship was toxic from the start and never seemed to find solid foundational ground. Even secondary characters like Kelsey (sister) were hot on the gaslighting. Telling her sister to be thankful when the man she’s working/living with is acting like an actual troll? Not okay. The story lacked a lot of the believable magic of an enemies to lovers story; MQ can write a spicy scene, but I feel like that was one of the only redeeming qualities. Maybe I’m being too harsh, but this story felt like it had so much potential at the beginning and I just didn’t feel like it delivered.

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vj_thompson's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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quietmarki's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

So cringey to read! I hated the trope, storyline, charachters,... . Like No! Please spare yourself from this hell.

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a_libra_library's review against another edition

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emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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matthewslaura's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Ok I genuinely have never laughed so hard at a book until I read the evil one-eyed fake baby scene… there were tears in my eyes! I really liked this story and that’s all I gotta say.

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maayaner29's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

The female mc is really cringe, she’s over-dramatic and she’s the type of character who always says weird and irrelevant stuff in the middle of a conversation because she’s QuIrKy, she says a ton of stuff that one isn’t supposed to say out loud in front of other people, if you know what I mean. Overall she’s just very annoying, and she’s not realistic at all, how am I supposed to get attached to a character if they don’t feel like a real person but rather just a bunch of exaggerated stereotypes? She really is the stereotypical “annoying female”. Same thing for him, in the beginning of the book he’s super rude to her, doesn’t respect her at all, doesn’t care about her, and really mean to her. How am I supposed to get attached to a character that is such an asshole? I mean, I like books with the grumpy sunshine trope, and when the guy is a bit “rude” at the beginning, but when he is that rude, and that mean to the female mc, there’s only so much he can redeem himself.

The mom is so cringe, she’s always talking about how she wants Lottie to find her own place so that she and her boyfriend can walk around naked in the house. Are there really parents out there who talk like that to their kids??? Even if that kid is 28, which kind of parent talks like that?? I hate when authors make the mc’s mom be such a cringe character, and sadly it happens a lot. At some point she literally sends a picture of her and her boyfriend naked (from the neck up, but that doesn’t excuse her action) to her daughter to show her how much they love the fact that she finally left their house. That is so messed up and disgusting. The fact that the author wrote that and then was like, yep, that’s good, I like what I wrote, is kind of concerning if you ask me. At least she doesn’t appear much in the book.

Their relationship is very toxic, they absolutely hate each other in the beginning but at the same time they’re both always thinking about how the other person is so hot and attractive and turns them on. He also does *dirty* things to her and she likes it but she still despises him, not the best way to have a healthy relationship 🥴.

The way he acted towards her when he thought that she told Ellie about their fake engagement was extremely toxic, he didn’t believe her at all and was already convinced that she was the one who told everything before she even had a chance to speak. And then he proceeded to say that he accused her because he was shocked, it doesn’t excuse what he did at all. And when he invited her to dinner to apologise, omg that was hella toxic, she was angry at him so he just pushed her against the wall and got all possessive because she was “stubborn” while he got angry at her and forced her to listen by holding her and not letting her out of his grasp, I don’t understand how can this author be okay with this, just when I thought that he finally changed he just became even worse than he was before. No matter how much he apologises and promises that he’s going to change, at the end of the day, the next time something bad happens to them he’s going to blame her again, and who knows how bad it’s going to be the next time? I wouldn’t be surprised if one day he starts being violent towards her, he already kind of threatens her, at some point during his “apology” he says “Do I need to bend you over this table just so you knock it off…Then hear me out and I won’t be forced to take extreme measures.”

Is anyone actually okay with this? She should just run as far away from him as possible.

Basically they have no chemistry and the only reason they end up together is because they’re both attractive people, their relationship is shallow and toxic.

Also the scene where they talk about sexual stuff in the car while the driver literally hears EVERYTHING made me super uncomfortable, I had major second hand embarrassment. But the worst was the scene right after at the “pregnancy class”,

that was the worst reading experience of my life 😂 I wanted to die with them, I felt really bad for them.

Oh god, Dave and Ellie made me so uncomfortable throughout the whole book, ugh 😩, they were waaay too comfortable with their body in front of other people. Can’t this author write normal characters that don’t give you second hand embarrassment?

I was absolutely shocked when there is a scene

where they casually talk about the fact that she had sex with him in the middle of the night while he was fucking SLEEPING, I don’t care that they are dating and they have a ton of sex, that’s just wrong, and in the book it’s written as something that’s super hot and it’s great, no it’s not, she literally took advantage of him while he was sleeping.

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ahyde712's review against another edition

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Absolute trash. The man is a narcissist and her entire family is gaslighting her. Not a redeeming trope in the book, I’m convinced it was written by an incel with a vendetta against women. 😤

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mamawantsbooks's review against another edition

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funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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