ARC received from Hachette Australia for an honest review

I am kind of in love with all these cartoon-type covers that are about lately. Don't know what it is, but they suck me in every single time.

I liked the sound of Would Like To Meet right from the start, because our leading lady Evie seems like a real cynical kinds of gal - and me likes that! I like that yes, she is the typical overworked, underpaid assistant that really does all the hard work. But there is an awareness about Evie that she can see this, and she will -eventually - grab life by the balls and do something. It is like if she was in one of her rom-com meet cutes, she would talk to the camera about the stuff that is happening.

I did laugh, I did cringe, and I did smile at the meet-cutes Evie does on the way to helping the self-centred writer and her (a-hole) of a boss get what they want.

We have a hen's night, a wedding, the group of BFFs who will never let her down - all the expected of a rom-com. Oh, and the cute child that will just steal the heroine's heart - though I was surprised at how old they turned out to be, as I had her pegged as at least double her age lol

And we the reader knew exactly who our lovely lady was going to end up with, but it was the road getting there that was fun.

The story is totally implausable, but that didn't bother me. Would Love To Meet is just a whole lot of fun. It was just the perfect read for me as I was on my sick bed for a couple of days.

Wonderful, fun and easy to read debut novel. A great summer (or winter) read.