A review by lindentea
Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Yea you can tell this was written by a millennial. You can REALLLY tell this was written by a millennial. Also what's with romcoms feeling so obligated to have villains? I don't know if this was actually written with You've Got Mail in mind but splitting Tom Hanks into two characters where one is rich and evil and the other is her goofy nice online bestie is soooooo boring -- one of the things I really like about You've Got Mail is just how crazy and bold it is for Tom Hanks to have been the love interest, like if you think about it its super weird because its VEEERY enemies to lovers but the steps to get there feel all wrong and then somehow it just works anyway. I guess you can argue Kiki is Tom Hanks but still. I think my biggest complaint is that it felt like we were spending WAYY more page-time on Jonas over Liam when its made very very clear that Kiki hates being around him.

Like why did they fake date? No really why, in a story structure way, did they fake date? What did we get out of that? Why was the conflict of the story not between Kiki and Liam but rather tied to an entirely different asshole guy?