Would Like to Meet: The hilarious, London-set, enemies to lovers romcom

This was a very enjoyable British rom-com story set around the 'meet-cute' premise. I love the term meet-cute, the first time I'd heard it was in the film The Holiday, so a book set around it sounded really appealing to me. Evie works for a screenwriting company, that is is financial trouble, and reluctantly agrees to help NOB (Number One Boy Child!), i.e. Oscar award winning Ezra, to get past his writer's block and write the promised rom-com screenplay within three months to save the agency. To do this she sets out to recreate lots of meet-cutes from various films to prove that rom-coms are believable, sending details to NOB so he can get inspiration for his screenplay, leading her on a very funny journey with various characters. And whilst NOB was very annoying most of the time Evie didn't take any rubbish from him and they had a very amusing relationship. Evie's friends were a great bunch, all doing different jobs and on their own paths, along with one about to get married so there's wedding/hen-night madness, but always there for each other. Evie often went to a coffee shop to work and regulars there were Ben and his daughter Annette. I really loved these two, especially Annette who was such a character. Ben was still struggling with losing his wife 3 years ago but was always helping Evie out of sticky situations. I must admit at the beginning of this book I though it might be a bit daft, but it actually didn't take me long to get into it and by the end I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very funny, light-hearted and easy reading book with a really lovely ending. It definitely had the feeling of a rom-com film, like Bridget Jones Diary or Love Actually. Delightful!

Minggus Dakara