Title: We Met in December

Author: Rosie Curtis

Publisher: William Morrow 2019

Genre: Romance

Pages: 400

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges:

Two people. One house. A year that changes everything.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s December, and she’s taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don’t kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning how they will knock down the wall between them to spend more time together.

But when Jess returns from a two-week Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has started dating someone else—beautiful Emma, who lives on the floor above them. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into (hell, sharing a bathroom with) the man of her dreams…and the woman of his.

This one ended up being a bit of slog if I’m being honest. It started out great and then we have to getting into the mundane for the next 350 ages and one year in the timeline. I was a bit disappointed that we don’t get to the romance section until the very last pages (like the last 10 pages). I always want to sit in the relationships more than that. In my recent read, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, we have to wait until nearly the end for romance also, but we get all those fun dates in between. This book was really stuck in the weeds for most of it. I kept having remind myself to pick up the book and keep reading. Not the best sign. This book isn’t bad, but it was definitely not the book for me.

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