A review by jrosebartoli415
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This would have been a 4 star read for me - it was entertaining and a unique enough plot, and I liked both main characters which is kind of rare for me - if the book had ended before the last 2 hours of the book.
The end dragged on for quite a while, and it wasn't incredibly fulfilling because of that. The plot I guess needed that final conflict, climax (no pun intended), and resolution (though I really thought the book was over when there were 2 hours left and was content with that), but it could have been done a bit faster and smoother. The epilogue was kind of weird too with their different career activities - I just felt like we didn't need that. And the ending about how the public responded to the movie and the two costars, acknowledging their fatphobia and slut-shaming, was so outrageous because I live in the real world lol. I know it's a book but it was too far out of the realm of possibility that it just made me roll my eyes.


I did love seeing diversity in both leads, especially a queer male lead, which I've personally never seen in a straight romance before. I also felt like the fatphobic content was handled pretty well, and while there was still a lot of making being plus size a main character trait of Bee, it didn't feel too much to take away from the story for me personally. She seemed a rich enough character outside of that.
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