Meet Cute Book Review

 











Meet Cute

1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Armentrout et al. . (2018). Meet Cute: Some People are Destined to Meet. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.. ISBN: 9780385754729


2.  PLOT SUMMARY

Meet Cute is an anthology of chance encounters between two people of how they met. The stories range from every day encounters to futuristic settings. The stories are about all types of relationships including LGBTQIA+. Couples meet, miss each other, stand up for themselves, realize the love they want, and are destined for. There are contemporary along with sci-fi ad fantasy stories which touch on romances that bloom and break. 


3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Meet cute is an anthology of short stories written by 14 authors told in different persons for each one. The appeal to young adults will be that some of the authors are very popular right now. The characters are all identifiable by the audience which is mostly high schoolers. Although not completely developed, the characters are mostly realistic. The plots are mostly unbelievable but leave the reader in a completely fictional world of love and heartbreak. Readers that are hopeless romantics will enjoy the possibilities of what-ifs. The theme is obviously love but not happy endings. This parallels real life with the joys and pain of falling in love. I did enjoy some of the stories but some fell flat and seemed too forced. I do think it would be interesting to read a complete novel of some of the stories. 


4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)

  • Booklist, 09/15/17

  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/17

  • Publishers Weekly, 10/16/17


  • Booklist (September 15, 2017 (Vol. 114, No. 2))

  • Grades 9-12. What’s a romance without that first meeting? In this anthology, 14 popular YA authors play with the first steps of a love story. Most of the stories are grounded in realism, although some dabble with potential near-future technologies (Katharine McGee’s “Click,” Nicola Yoon’s “The Department of Dead Love,” and Kass Morgan’s “259 Million Miles”). Meanwhile, Dhonielle Clayton’s “The Way We Love Here” is a fantasy filled with boundless possibilities. Many of the stories feature LGBT couples (Nina LaCour’s “Print Shop,” Meredith Russo’s “Somewhere That’s Green,” Emery Lord’s “Oomph,” and Julie Murphy’s “Something Real“). Other standouts include Ibi Zoboi’s “Hourglass,” in which a plus-sized African American girl longs to escape her small, mostly white town, and Jocelyn Davies’ “The Unlikelihood of Falling in Love,” about a statistics whiz who tries to quantify love. The stories work best when the titular meet cute is a side effect, not the main focus, but most succeed. Ultimately a well-rounded, charming collection of love stories that any reader will be happy to meet.


  • 5. CONNECTIONS

Read other books by the authors


Mandanna, S. (2019). Color Outside the Lines. Soho Teen. ISBN: 9781641290463

Albertally,B.  (2023). Imogen, Obviously. Balzer+Bay.. ISBN: 9780063045873

Activities:

Write a romance intro for a couple

Rewrite or continue on a story from the book

Create a TikTok seeking a mate as one of the characters


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