When Summer Meets Autumn is a sweet, low-angst story about a scholar/college professor (Summer) who meets a Hollywood starlet (Autumn) after she takes a bet with her roommate and becomes a seat-filler at an awards show, where they're seated next to each other. It's a bit of a slow burn, but it's a nice burn and I really loved how naturally the relationship between the two developed. Summer and Autumn are both adorable and their connection and communication is wonderful, and the side characters are nice, if not fully developed. 

 

I had two issues, I think, with the story. The first was that there are some time skips that felt a little odd, and I personally would have liked to see a longer, more fleshed out book with less fast forwarding. Second was that Autumn's asexuality, while an important enough factor to be mentioned in the blurb, is barely addressed in the story outside of a couple of brief mentions. I would have liked to read more about that and how Autumn specifically identified within it, since asexuality is so rarely addressed in books and it seems to have the largest variety of interpretations and boundaries. I do recognize, though, that I'm not asexual, so perhaps it's just my curiosity that has me wanting to know more where others might not. 

 

I received a free ARC from BookSirens, but my review is unbiased and left voluntarily.