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melbsreads's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Trigger warnings: nothing??
I absolutely FLEW through the first 20% of this. Like, read it in about half an hour. And then somewhere along the way, the pace slowed right down for me and I found myself struggling through it. And I think part of that is I thought this was a romance but it's more of a straight up YA contemporary story with some romantic elements thrown in. So every male character that turned up I'd convinced myself was the end game character and then they weren't and it drove me up the wall. Especially when I then saw where the story was going with a good hundred pages to go, but I still had to read about Mia and other dudes.
In summary: sigh.
I absolutely FLEW through the first 20% of this. Like, read it in about half an hour. And then somewhere along the way, the pace slowed right down for me and I found myself struggling through it. And I think part of that is I thought this was a romance but it's more of a straight up YA contemporary story with some romantic elements thrown in. So every male character that turned up I'd convinced myself was the end game character and then they weren't and it drove me up the wall. Especially when I then saw where the story was going with a good hundred pages to go, but I still had to read about Mia and other dudes.
In summary: sigh.
bubblegumbook's review against another edition
3.0
Super cute teen romance/coming of age. I wanted a bit more interactions between the main character and the love interest but it was still good.
thoranareads's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol
eliandbooks10's review against another edition
3.0
I’ve been thinking about this book lately and how underwhelmed I felt while reading so I’m changing my rating to three stars (yes I know it’s three months later)
Original rating: 4 stars
Original rating: 4 stars
librarypatronus's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars. This was cute, and totally my fault but I wasn't remembering that it was YA when I actually sat down to read it, so maybe I just wasn't in quite the right mood. It was *very* predictable, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in a romance, but I was a little bored with how long it took her to figure some things out. The sister's wedding was a fun sub-plot and I enjoyed the disastrous titular meet cutes.
kindleandilluminate's review against another edition
1.0
Mia Hubbard has enough on her plate between swim team, math club, volunteer work, and making it through her junior year of high school - not to mention her bridezilla sister's impending wedding. So when she's told she has just a few months to find a date to that wedding, her friends rally round to help her out - by orchestrating a series of romcom meet-cutes... what could possibly go wrong?
The Meet-Cute Project sounds like such a cute premise, but the nitty-gritty of that premise is more than a little forced. Big sis Sam is supposedly such a details-obsessed Bridezilla that she's having meltdowns over the exact shade of purple of her wedding flowers...but when the best man drops out of the wedding, she tells Mia to just find herself a new date/groomsman?? I tried to get past the initial weird set-up, but the rest of the book continues in much the same vein, with the most contrived, artificial, mountain-out-of-molehills drama imaginable just to keep the plot twisting along. None of the obstacles are real - like when Mia realizes she scheduled a date for the same night as her sister's bridal shower...and decides it would be far too mature and reasonable to reschedule, so instead she has to manufacture drama by sneaking out of the house to go on this date and ditch the shower. Mia herself is immature even beyond what's reasonable for a YA book's teenaged heroine, and while her initial awkwardness and total inability to flirt with the series of potential dates her friends parade in front of her is #relatable, neither she nor any of the supporting characters is especially interesting or engaging. Including the ultimate love interest, whose favorite pastime seems to be telling Mia she's being silly even when he himself is pulling completely unnecessary, made-up-for-the-dramz shenanigans like hiding his identity and lying about having a girlfriend. None of it makes sense. None of this story makes sense! Sentences contradict themselves on the same page ("All he wants to talk about is the club we're both in, and he doesn't answer my questions about his college plans!" "All he talks about is his college plans, how self-obsessed he is!" back to back), characters behave bizarrely with no justification except to cause drama and prolong the plot, and it's ultimately just so flat, forced, and faked at every step.
A cute premise - less than cute execution. It's just disappointing from start to finish.
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advance review copy.
The Meet-Cute Project sounds like such a cute premise, but the nitty-gritty of that premise is more than a little forced. Big sis Sam is supposedly such a details-obsessed Bridezilla that she's having meltdowns over the exact shade of purple of her wedding flowers...but when the best man drops out of the wedding, she tells Mia to just find herself a new date/groomsman?? I tried to get past the initial weird set-up, but the rest of the book continues in much the same vein, with the most contrived, artificial, mountain-out-of-molehills drama imaginable just to keep the plot twisting along. None of the obstacles are real - like when Mia realizes she scheduled a date for the same night as her sister's bridal shower...and decides it would be far too mature and reasonable to reschedule, so instead she has to manufacture drama by sneaking out of the house to go on this date and ditch the shower. Mia herself is immature even beyond what's reasonable for a YA book's teenaged heroine, and while her initial awkwardness and total inability to flirt with the series of potential dates her friends parade in front of her is #relatable, neither she nor any of the supporting characters is especially interesting or engaging. Including the ultimate love interest, whose favorite pastime seems to be telling Mia she's being silly even when he himself is pulling completely unnecessary, made-up-for-the-dramz shenanigans like hiding his identity and lying about having a girlfriend. None of it makes sense. None of this story makes sense! Sentences contradict themselves on the same page ("All he wants to talk about is the club we're both in, and he doesn't answer my questions about his college plans!" "All he talks about is his college plans, how self-obsessed he is!" back to back), characters behave bizarrely with no justification except to cause drama and prolong the plot, and it's ultimately just so flat, forced, and faked at every step.
A cute premise - less than cute execution. It's just disappointing from start to finish.
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advance review copy.