Meant For You

by Lili Valente

• ISBN10: 1542820405
• ISBN13: 9781542820400
• Publish Date: 1 February 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 280
• Language: English

Reviews

[Romance Schmomance]

I really wanted to like this book, I really did. But it didn't quite work for me. I've read a few of Valente's previous work and loved those, but this one didn't click with me as I hoped it would.

Valente does a solid job with her writing and manages to keep things flowing very smoothly. I couldn't connect with the characters and story, itself. There were some moments that seemed so odd to have.

Like many, I'm a fan of second chance romances, when two fall so deeply in love and something happens, flash forward to a few years later. I love learning what happens in that time apart, the pain they have to work through to get back to each other again. If anything, I appreciate the journey.

Addie and Nate first meet when their teenagers on a summer of freedom and fun. Both with obligations and catering to their parents wants and needs, they keep their relationship a secret from them. Addie is so young and innocent at sixteen, while Nate is soon to head off to college. Well, they both are, Addie is an extremely smart girl who skipped a couple of grades.

Once it gets closer to the end of summer, their love for each other is evident, but things happen and they parted ways on not so great of terms.

Now it's present time and fate brings them back together. A lot of questions need to be answered and so many other things need to be said between Addie and Nate.

I guess in some stories we see this a lot now when something happens in their teenage years that dictate how their adult life ends up. I felt for Addie a little, she endured so much at such a young age that Nate couldn't quite amount to. But once we see adult Addie, girlllllll, you have to stand up for yourself a bit more. Can't be a doormat, girly. Nate, well I wish he tried harder to find her.

Some of my favorite moments were the texting scenes, they're quite hilarious and the connection these characters had are kind of crazy.

I'm still a fan of Valente's work, but this one didn't quite hit it out of the ballpark for me.

Goodreads Rating | 2 Stars ( It was ok.)
My Rating | 3 Stars!

**ARC provided for honest review**

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[Eve1972]

Unfortunately, this one didn't work all that well for me. The writing was fine and it moved along at a nice pace. It was just ALL over the place storywise for me.

I didn't particularly like either Nate nor Addie. I'm usually not overly bothered by people (99% of the time the hero) moving on after a separation, but in this instance, I found it extremely annoying that 18-year-old Nate who claimed he was SOOO in love with 16 years old Addie moved on to have a fabulous career and sleep with a bunch of OW. Meanwhile, Addie loses EVERYTHING. Family, her scholarship, her whole flipping LIFE and ends up this sad doormat of a person. Not to mention I KNEW what her secret was going to turn out to be. I hoped I was mistaken, but nope, same cliché scenario as a million other books.

On top of that I just never bought that Nate LOVED her as much as he claimed he did. Because if he did, one would think he would have tried to find her in the 7 years they were separated. She didn't change her name or was in hiding for heaven's sake.



Going back to this being all over the place storywise, this book could decide if it was a second chance romance or a paranormal romance. The whole scene near the end with the cabin was so bizarre and confusing. It left me rolling my eyes. Lastly, I found the pages and pages of text messages between all the characters distracting and honestly a little tedious to get through.

So as you can see this one just didn't work all that well for me. Maybe you will enjoy it a lot more, so don't let me review sway you too much. ;D

SIDE NOTE: I have a HUGE pet peeve about book covers not matching the hero (or heroine) in the books they are supposed to represent. This is another example where the cover makes you think you are getting one thing and you get another. Nate was in no way, shape, or form a suit wearing hero. That cover screams "billionaire or CEO or businessman."