We Met Like This

Margot doesn’t want to meet “the one” through a dating app. She uses them periodically but always deletes them again. It’s so unromantic, and Margot is, to the core, an incurable romantic. She wants a novel-worthy meet cute story, not an impersonal algorithm. Oliver Gray is also on and off dating apps. He and Margot swiped right for each other three years ago and had one disastrous date that neither wanted to repeat. So why do the apps keep matching them together? Truthfully, neither has forgotten that date, or more accurately, the steamy make-out session in Oliver’s car afterward. When they’re matched yet again, something is finally different. They start texting. There’s witty banter, and when they meet in person, there’s definitely still chemistry. Margot and Oliver are total opposites carrying bad-relationship baggage, but perhaps the algorithm is right after all. The backstories that made them reluctant to love again are deftly woven into the romance, as is fun banter, all with a sense of pacing that sweeps readers up and carries them along.