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Meet Cute by Meredith Russo, Dhonielle Clayton, Julie Murphy, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Kass Morgan, Katharine McGee, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Sara Shepard
2.0
Original review from The Paper Trail Diary:
Colour me disappointed. I was soooo excited for this, and it fell down hard.
There are a lot of issues with this collection of “meet cute stories” by popular YA authors, and firstly, it’s that most of the stories are not actually meet cute moments. Yeah. In many of the stories, characters already knew each other in some way, or the way they get together is very gradual over the story, or not even until the end. A meet cute is like, a couple meets in an elevator when the girl drops her purse and the guy picks it up and they look at each other and sparks fly. I basically think of Mindy Kaling when I think of meet cutes. So there was that, which just made me disrespect the book because it had one simple thing to do!
There was no coherent editor for the book, no introduction, no reasoning, and a lot of the stories that were similar to each other were placed right next to each other. There were no guy-guy relationships present, or any ace, which I thought was too bad. I feel like this book could have been so good, but it was a big let down. And I don’t say this stuff lightly.
The stories I did enjoy were Emery Lord’s “Oomph,” “Click” by Katherine McGhee, “The Dictionary of You and Me” by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Jocelyn Davies’ “The Unlikelihood of Falling in Love.” I wasn’t super into Julie Murphy’s story unfortunately, and I couldn’t even finish Nicola Yoon’s.
It makes me wonder if the publisher just wanted to put something together quickly to make a few bucks – which to be honest will work – but it just could have been done so much better, and I feel like many of these authors don’t have a lot of short story experience. I’d pass on this one if I were you.
Colour me disappointed. I was soooo excited for this, and it fell down hard.
There are a lot of issues with this collection of “meet cute stories” by popular YA authors, and firstly, it’s that most of the stories are not actually meet cute moments. Yeah. In many of the stories, characters already knew each other in some way, or the way they get together is very gradual over the story, or not even until the end. A meet cute is like, a couple meets in an elevator when the girl drops her purse and the guy picks it up and they look at each other and sparks fly. I basically think of Mindy Kaling when I think of meet cutes. So there was that, which just made me disrespect the book because it had one simple thing to do!
There was no coherent editor for the book, no introduction, no reasoning, and a lot of the stories that were similar to each other were placed right next to each other. There were no guy-guy relationships present, or any ace, which I thought was too bad. I feel like this book could have been so good, but it was a big let down. And I don’t say this stuff lightly.
The stories I did enjoy were Emery Lord’s “Oomph,” “Click” by Katherine McGhee, “The Dictionary of You and Me” by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Jocelyn Davies’ “The Unlikelihood of Falling in Love.” I wasn’t super into Julie Murphy’s story unfortunately, and I couldn’t even finish Nicola Yoon’s.
It makes me wonder if the publisher just wanted to put something together quickly to make a few bucks – which to be honest will work – but it just could have been done so much better, and I feel like many of these authors don’t have a lot of short story experience. I’d pass on this one if I were you.