seriously romantic: would like to meet by rachel winters

if you enjoy reading books by sophie kinsella and have run out of new ones, then would like to meet would be a very good stand-in. it's a british rom-com, in which evie summers, our hapless heroine, who's naïveté about her boss's willingness to promote her and her tolerance of their most prominent client's bad behaviors can't help but lead her astray.

the gambit here is that she is going to try to reenact famous film meet-cutes in the hopes of finding love, to prove to the nob (the poorly behaved client) that the premises of romantic comedies can work in real life. the nob is a "serious" screenwriter, and can't stand the idea of writing something he believes is unrealistic.

in the process of doing this, she keeps running into a widower and his child, ben and anette. and the trio form a connection, a friendship, of sorts. but the nob is forever putting a wrench in things and evie is just silly enough to be lead astray.

don't get me wrong, i enjoyed evie, but she's also a huge idiot for a huge chunk of this story. when she finally wises up and gets her head on straight there's a series of miscommunications that up the stakes, but this is a rom-com and all's well that ends well.

**would like to meet will publish on december 3, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/g.p. putnam's sons in exchange for my honest review.