A review by michellekernan
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

2.0

I first read this book in 2020 during the pandemic when in lock down and I was reading a book a day essentially. I remember not being able to put this down and thought it was the cutest story ever. Now, the second time around I almost DNFd it. It is not good. And all the things I remember feeling the first time around were pretty cringy and hard to read at times. I listened to the audio version this time and I think that was another mistake, the performance was not the greatest. The FMC simply came across very cringy and immature. The whole office set up is very juvenile and some of the characters are very annoying and are clearly written to act only as a set up for cute “knight in shining armour” scene. So strange how I went from liking something so kick to actually really hating it. 2020 was a weird time though.