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A review by eliza_k
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
2.0
I'm so disappointed.
I was super excited to pick this book up. There's some great rep and a super interesting sounding plot, too. And it has fake dating! I'd just read my first fake dating book a little bit before and though it was sort of disappointing, I was excited to read another one!
And I'd just like to say that there are some really good things about this book. I mean, the representation first of all, especially of neopronouns, was amazing! Also, I loved Devin, e are just so awesome and nice.
But the rest of it....
Honestly, a lot of the other reviews here say my thoughts exactly, but I will try to write my own.
First of all, the Diary itself. It didn't make sense.
From what I gathered, every single one of these stories was set in Miami. Given that Noah was actually going to places to try to get plot for these stories (eg going to an ice cream store and 'forgetting' his wallet so that someone goes and brings it to him), all these stories were about people who are trans male and m/m romances? And Noah didn't get one person asking to submit a story to him that entire time? How could the readers, who he had thousands of and from all over the US and possibly the world, believe that there are only people submitting stories from Miami and and only m/m trans male romances?
Also, yeah, Noah was a jerk.
So, he definitely gets some character development over the book, but it's really not much and he's still really immature at the end. There are so many times when people do a lot of things for him and he just groans, or when something bad happens to someone else and he just complains about himself.
Especially like him getting a job. He hated having to work at all for any amount of time and just seems to expect that people will...give him money? For free? Without him working or anything?
Okay there's a lot of reviews out there that explain other things but these were the things that really stood out to me so those were the things I wanted to point out.
I was super excited to pick this book up. There's some great rep and a super interesting sounding plot, too. And it has fake dating! I'd just read my first fake dating book a little bit before and though it was sort of disappointing, I was excited to read another one!
And I'd just like to say that there are some really good things about this book. I mean, the representation first of all, especially of neopronouns, was amazing! Also, I loved Devin, e are just so awesome and nice.
But the rest of it....
Honestly, a lot of the other reviews here say my thoughts exactly, but I will try to write my own.
First of all, the Diary itself. It didn't make sense.
From what I gathered, every single one of these stories was set in Miami. Given that Noah was actually going to places to try to get plot for these stories (eg going to an ice cream store and 'forgetting' his wallet so that someone goes and brings it to him), all these stories were about people who are trans male and m/m romances? And Noah didn't get one person asking to submit a story to him that entire time? How could the readers, who he had thousands of and from all over the US and possibly the world, believe that there are only people submitting stories from Miami and and only m/m trans male romances?
Also, yeah, Noah was a jerk.
So, he definitely gets some character development over the book, but it's really not much and he's still really immature at the end. There are so many times when people do a lot of things for him and he just groans, or when something bad happens to someone else and he just complains about himself.
Especially like him getting a job. He hated having to work at all for any amount of time and just seems to expect that people will...give him money? For free? Without him working or anything?
Okay there's a lot of reviews out there that explain other things but these were the things that really stood out to me so those were the things I wanted to point out.