A review by redsilva95
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

4.0

"Some people make you want to be known."

This is a very good anthology! The short stories were mostly well-written, and have diversity in genders, sexuality, ethnicity and skin color. Here's my individual ratings for each story:

"Siege Etiquette" by Katie Cotugno - 4 stars
"Print Shop" by Nina Lacour - 2 stars
"Hourglass" by Ibi Zoboi - 3 stars
"Click" by Katharine McGee - 4 stars
"The Intern" by Sara Shepard - 2 stars
"Somewhere That's Green" by Meredith Russo - 3.5 stars
"The Way We Love Here" by Dhonielle Clayton - 4.5 stars
"Oomph" by Emery Lord - 5 stars
"The Dictionary of You and Me" by Jennifer L. Armentrout - 4 stars
"The Unlikely Likelihood of Falling in Love" by Jocelyn Davis - 3 stars
"259 Million Miles" by Kass Morgan - 4 stars
"Something Real" by Julie Murphy - 4 stars
"Say Everything" by Huntley Fitzpatrick - 1 star
"The Department of Dead Love" by Nicola Yoon - 4 stars

Overall, I really enjoyed the stories. The average of these individual ratings is 3.43 but I'm rounding up to 4 stars because of my enjoyment. Some felt flat to me, others were exactly what I was expecting them to be, there were cute, adorable and swoony moments, some heartbreaking ones. I want full novels of some of these stories (like the ones written by Lord, Clayton, Morgan, Murphy and Yoon) and expected more from others (maybe I don't click with Lacour's writing style? The meet-cute aspect of her story felt like an afterthought to me). But they made me want to read more from these authors, which is always an amazing thing.