This book started out in a way that totally had me reading as quickly as I could to find out what would happen. I really connected to the main character Emma, as I am also the oldest and two of my younger siblings are either married or engaged and here I am with no prospects in sight. I also kind of wish there was a real matching experiment like this that I could sign up for.

It took a bit longer than I would have liked for what I thought would be the meet-cute, even though we did have one that wasn’t it, since we know from the synopsis who Emma is going to be matched up with.

There was so much going on in this story. With all the other sisters, I wondered if there had been books for them in the past and I had missed those. But since all the couples had things going on, it seemed that I hadn’t. While I liked the story for the most part, I did have a few issues. First, when we got Cooper’s chapters, it was done in third person instead of first person like Emma’s chapters. I don’t know that I was a fan of that. Secondly, I kind of think there was a lot going on in the story, sometimes things I didn’t necessarily want to read as I was really invested in Emma’s story and how it would go. And finally, the ending. It wasn’t what I had really thought would happen after reading as far as I did, and from the synopsis. Now, I wondered at a few points toward the beginning if that could be an issue, but just figured it wouldn’t be.

A good story, but don’t go in expecting you’ll know what will happen. It’s not necessarily a sweet romance, but it’s also not really got any steamy bits either. In the end I do feel it was a little long as well.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.