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A review by per_fictionist
We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
4.0
I have said this time and again that Lynn Solomon’s books are like a warm hug that comforts you in the gloomiest of days and her newest release “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like this” corrborates my statement yet again!
In “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This” we are told the story of Berkowitzes and Mansours who have been business partners for years with the Berkowitzes running their own marriage and the Mansours who own a catering company! As we dive into the story, we meet Quinn Berkowitz, the youngest of the B + B fam, who has/had a huge crush on Tarek Mansour, her best friend and how she confesses her feelings to him over a rambling e-mail after he leaves for college which much to her dismay sits unresponded! So, yeah when they meet over Summer break at the marriage events AHEMM IT’S HIGHKEY AWKWARD! On the flipside, Quinn has been find it daungtingly difficult to talk to her parents about how she doesn’t want to pursue the B+B family business going forward because she fears her leaving the family biz might be the final straw that breaks their family!
With a plot like this, there is so much you can expect from “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This”. Quinn and Tarek are two very different individuals both with their own flaws and insecurities and are immensely relatable. Lynn Solomon once again welcomes representation as a central part of the story and she focuses on mental health with sensitivity and with an ease that allows the reader to learn briefly about OCD and anxiety, that Quinn deals with and Tarek battling his depression. Rachel’s books are always about sex positivity as already encountered in Today Tonight Tomorrow, and “We Can’t Keep” didn’t fall behind either.
Quinn, with her trust issues has a hard time believing in romance, after the heartbreak she experienced when parents separated for a brief period of six months. Her cynical approach towards love is in stark contrast to Tarek who is a hopeless romantic at heart and is known for his out-of-the-way declarations of love.
All in all,” We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This” is a book that melts your heart as Quinn and Tarek endeavours to figure out their lives and relationships and what their future holds. There is also a lot of CAKE AHEMMM SO YOU CAN EXPECT A DECENT AMOUNT OF DROOLING!
In “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This” we are told the story of Berkowitzes and Mansours who have been business partners for years with the Berkowitzes running their own marriage and the Mansours who own a catering company! As we dive into the story, we meet Quinn Berkowitz, the youngest of the B + B fam, who has/had a huge crush on Tarek Mansour, her best friend and how she confesses her feelings to him over a rambling e-mail after he leaves for college which much to her dismay sits unresponded! So, yeah when they meet over Summer break at the marriage events AHEMM IT’S HIGHKEY AWKWARD! On the flipside, Quinn has been find it daungtingly difficult to talk to her parents about how she doesn’t want to pursue the B+B family business going forward because she fears her leaving the family biz might be the final straw that breaks their family!
With a plot like this, there is so much you can expect from “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This”. Quinn and Tarek are two very different individuals both with their own flaws and insecurities and are immensely relatable. Lynn Solomon once again welcomes representation as a central part of the story and she focuses on mental health with sensitivity and with an ease that allows the reader to learn briefly about OCD and anxiety, that Quinn deals with and Tarek battling his depression. Rachel’s books are always about sex positivity as already encountered in Today Tonight Tomorrow, and “We Can’t Keep” didn’t fall behind either.
Quinn, with her trust issues has a hard time believing in romance, after the heartbreak she experienced when parents separated for a brief period of six months. Her cynical approach towards love is in stark contrast to Tarek who is a hopeless romantic at heart and is known for his out-of-the-way declarations of love.
All in all,” We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This” is a book that melts your heart as Quinn and Tarek endeavours to figure out their lives and relationships and what their future holds. There is also a lot of CAKE AHEMMM SO YOU CAN EXPECT A DECENT AMOUNT OF DROOLING!