Lisa (Remarkablylisa)'s Reviews > If I Never Met You

I received an ARC from Harper Collins Canada in exchange for an honest review.

I was highly recommended to read this one from a friend who works at Harper Collins and I was kind of... hesitant. I tried reading Mhairi's previous novel, Don't You Forget About Me, and honestly, I was kind of bored from the writing and didn't feel much connection to the characters. While If I Never Met You started out the same, I was gripped by chapter two. Oh! The heartache! The pain Mhairi was able to pour into her words to describe two people who fell in love and had been in a long-term relationship for 18 years only to have them fall apart in the end. I loved the emotion I felt. I loved how I could imagine this relationship and how difficult it would be even though I never once had this long of a relationship.

While the emotions were there, I should note that this one isn't like a romantic comedy. It's hardly funny. It's about Laurie, dealing with the aftermath of her broken relationship. She's angry at her ex who just broke up with her after 18 years and then jumping into another person's bed a few weeks later. She's furious. She wants revenge. So she enlists the help of the office player, Jaime, who just so happens to need to clean up his image to make partner at their law firm. They get a few fake posts on social media, and lie a bunch of times, and boom it's a success! What they didn't expect was to actually emotionally connect deeply. They share their secrets and let each other in their vaults.

I really liked the romance that happened in this book. However, it was simply too much and not enough. I wanted more angst and looooove. It felt more like a deep friendship than an actual relationship. But I have to admit the parts leading up to it was fluffy enough. However, the ending can go into the trash can. It came out of left field and I don't care for it.