We Met Like This
By: Kasie West
Publication: September 16, 2025 by Saturday Books
368 pages
Genre: Adult, Contemporary
Source: Publisher via NetGalley (Thank you!!)
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Goodreads description--Beloved author Kasie West's sparkling adult rom-com debut about a hopeless romantic falling for the one man she never expected
Can a swipe right turn into swept away?
Margot Hart is a hopeless romantic. That’s why she wants to be a literary agent—to help bring romance books to the world. It’s also why she hates dating apps with all her romance loving soul. She wants her own love story to be just as much fun as the books she reads—a mixed up coffee order, a mistaken identity. She’s not going to tell the story that she swiped right on future husband’s shirtless pic for the rest of her life.
The problem is that her most consistent relationship over the last several years is with Oliver, a guy she keeps rematching with on the apps. They’ve only been on one date and it was a disaster…well, until the make out session in the car before parting ways. But, she keeps reminding herself, a make out session does not a relationship make. And so there will not be a date two regardless of how witty their app banter is.
When Margot gets fired from her job on the same day she meets Oliver again, her life becomes a veritable shit show. Her dream career is dying right before her eyes, and Oliver thinks she’s interested in only one a repeat of the hot make out session they had three years ago so she can get him out of her system. And maybe that is all she wants from him, because she and Oliver are definitely not compatible—he doesn’t hit the snooze button, he runs five miles every morning, he reads nonfiction, and worst of all, she didn’t meet him in cute way! But in her scramble to keep her dream career alive, by opening her own agency, Oliver is there with his golden retriever energy, more steady and helpful than any man she’s ever dated. Just when she thinks she’s overcome her app bias, she realizes that maybe it’s not her who’s holding back, but him. And his reasons are more than she bargained for.
Kasie West's romantic adult debut is full of witty banter, meet cutes gone awry and, ultimately, true love.
We Met Like This is Kasie West's first adult book. She usually writes YA books with happily ever afters. I find her to be a consistent author, but when I heard she wrote an adult book, I knew I wanted to check it out. And I am so glad that I did.
I will say that We Met Like This definitely starts out with some spice and shows the reader early that this isn't the young adult they might be expecting from Kasie West. Now, I can do without spice, but I do appreciate adult characters with adult storylines. There weren't too many scenes even if there were innuendos and comments throughout the book. The language was definitely more than you will find in one of her other books. But again, I suppose this is to be expected.
Margot works as an assistant/junior literary agent. She's been at this job for over three years without moving up despite being very good at her job, working beyond the scope of her title, and being verbally promised by her boss that she will advance. She's also been looking for love in all the wrong places. She keeps settling and getting disappointed. She's looking for a meet cute, but she keeps using dating apps to try to meet people. She feels a little bit like a failure compared to her sister who has what Margot considers the perfect life. But Margot is just her own person.
Oliver and Margot start off the book in her car making out after a terrible first date. The date went wrong, but the making out is on point. Oliver wants to slow down and get to know one another, but Margot has already written him off. She decides to leave instead. Through the next three years they match on the dating apps off and on and chat a few times laughing it off that they had such a terrible first date.
For Oliver's part, he was fresh off of a break where his girlfriend cheated on him when he went on that date with Margot. Apparently that girlfriend wasn't the only one to cheat on him either, and that's created some trust issues. I could relate to Oliver in that way. He works for himself in tech. I think software engineer, coder, and maybe some other titles were mentions which could all be quite different. But in my experience, a lot of techy people are pretty well-rounded even if not all of them know how to code. (I can do some coding in the old COBOL and DYL280 languages which were way old even when I was using them. They are pretty much obsolete nowadays. And of course, I use HTML and JavaScript with my blog.) But I'm nowhere on par with my techy brother who has worked his entire career in the field in various positions.
I loved Margot and Oliver's relationship development. I did feel like the secret that was kept was pretty obvious and it was also a little annoying that this was used in the climax of the plot for the thing the characters needed to resolve. Things did resolve fairly easily, so at least there's that.
I thought Kasie West did a wonderful job with all of the side characters. From Sloane, Margot's roommate, to Audrey, Margot's sister, Margot's parents, Sloane's boyfriend, Margot's boss, and even some of her co-workers. They all seemed to be pop-off-the-page characters even when they didn't have much page time.
Favorite quote:
-“Your friends are so lucky to have you,”
We Met Like This was exactly what I needed when I read it. I was having trouble getting into a story before I picked this one up. Margot and Oliver were so fun to read. I really appreciated that the guy was almost more interested in a real relationship than the girl at first. We Met Like This gets 4.5 Stars. Have you read We Met Like This? What did you think? Let me know!
