Review: We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Publication Date: 8 June 2021

Publisher's Description

A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow.

Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email—and then he left for college without a response.

Quinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents’ weddings. When he shows up at the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek’s always loved the grand gestures in weddings—the flashier, the better—while Quinn can’t see them as anything but fake. Even as they can’t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn’s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman.

Quinn can’t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth about his silence, opens up about her own fears, and begins learning the art of harp-making from an enigmatic teacher.

Maybe love isn’t the enemy after all—and maybe allowing herself to fall is the most honest thing Quinn’s ever done.

My Thoughts

I received an eARC courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review.

I was surprisingly captivated by this book. It is always nice to find a book with protagonists that are dealing with mental health issues right alongside the normal (and sometimes abnormal) issues of being a teen. This was a nice, single-sitting kind of book.

For Libraries: Your contemporary romance fans are going to find a lot to love about Quinn and Tarek.

Content Notes: OCD, depression, religion, race, sex, language