We Met in December

by Rosie Curtis

Prepare to fall head over heels. The perfect book for fans of Josie Silver, Richard Curtis, and anyone who ever fell in love with the wrong person...

'Gorgeously festive and romantic' Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call

What if you couldn't get away from the one who got away?

This December, unlucky-in-love Jess is following her dream and moving to Notting Hill. On the first night in her new house-share she meets Alex, the guy in the room next door. They don't kiss under the mistletoe, but there's still a spark that leaves Jess imagining how they might spend the year together - never mind the house rule against dating...

But when Jess returns from her Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has started seeing Emma, who lives on the floor above them. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into the man of her dreams - and, apparently, the woman of his.

Jess is determined to move on and spend the year falling in love with London, not Alex - but what if her heart has other ideas?

Everyone is falling for We Met in December...

'Bridget Jones meets Love Actually - the PERFECT Christmas story and I loved, loved, loved it' Cathy Bramley

'Like putting on your favourite Christmas jumper: cosy, heartwarming and gorgeously romantic' Holly Martin

'Effortlessly capturing the magic of Christmas, this brilliantly characterised and light-hearted read is the perfect choice to add a little romance into those dark winter days' Woman's Weekly

'A perfect festive hug of a book. It's packed with brilliant characters, beautiful settings, warm humour and a love story guaranteed to steal your heart. I absolutely adored this clever, wonderful story. Get ready to meet your new favourite author!' Miranda Dickinson

'Just what everyone needs right now - a gorgeously warm and uplifting story full of romance' Alex Brown

• ISBN10: 0062964577
• ISBN13: 9780062964571
• Publish Date: 5 November 2019 (first published 5 September 2019)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: William Morrow & Company
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[readingwithwrin]

May Contain Spoilers.

I was expecting a far more Christmassy book than what this was.
While the two main characters Jess and Alex do meet around the holidays that's about as Christmassy as the story gets.
Instead, it focuses on a year-long will they won't they get together situation filled with some roommate drama.
Individually I liked the two characters and learning about them, even together I could have liked them. Having said that though we never actually got to see them together, and instead the ending felt extremely rushed after all that we had had to go through to get to it.

Overall for me, this book was false advertising of a Christmas story, when in all actuality it should have been more like we met and took a year to do anything about our feelings story.

[Sam@WLABB]

Jess and Alex both needed a fresh start.

After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, Jess left her secure job to follow her dream of working in publishing. She left her quiet, seaside town and her gran, for a shared home in Knotting Hill. There, she met Alex, who was also starting anew. After losing his father, Alex abandoned his law career to retrain as a nurse. Soon thereafter, his fiancee broke off their engagement. Though Alex wasn't looking for a relationship, Jess couldn't help falling for him.

This was absolutely delightful, but also drove me batty (in a good way). I had such a great year with Jess and Alex. I loved watching their friendship take root and blossom, but I was also shipping them so hard. The bad timing and missed opportunities drove me up a tree, but I do think it was for the best. These two really needed that year to heal from their pasts, while becoming better acquainted with who they were becoming.

Curtis rounded out this tale of will-they-won't-they with holidays and time spent with family and friends. The secondary characters really added to my enjoyment, and I liked watching them grow and change right along side Jess and Alex. And, seriously, thank you, Rosie Curtis for giving me an epilogue, and it was good one.

Overall, I enjoyed spending a year with Jess and Alex. There were ups and downs and in-betweens, and I was thrilled to see how far they came since they had met in December.

*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

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[Rowena]

3.5 out of 5

This book had a lot of promise and while I enjoyed it, a lot of the book moved really slow and I wasn't a big fan of that. A lot of missed opportunities because the main characters didn't open their mouths and communicate. It would have been okay if the story felt like it was moving but it was so slow that I wanted to kick both Alex and Jess in the shins to get a move on already. Still, I enjoyed the book as a whole.