All of the Above by Quinn Anderson
Review by Lauren
source: copy from Netgalley; all opinions are my own
Official Summary (add on Goodreads): Brendon isn’t in a rut, per se—he just always seems to be in-between things. Jobs. Degrees. Boyfriends. He never finishes what he starts. The perfect path is out there somewhere, and if he can just figure out what it is, he’s certain everything else will fall into place.
The last thing he expects is to meet his soul mate in the pages of a magazine quiz. “Who Is Your Perfect Man?” by Matthew Kingston seems like a road map to his future husband: the author himself. Brendon may not have his life figured out, but if Matt is as romantic as his quiz, Brendon can check “true love” off his to-do list.
When Brendon fakes a meet-cute between them, Matt proves to be as wonderful as he hoped. The more Brendon gets to know him, the harder he falls. But Brendon has a confession to make: how can he explain to Matt that he arranged their “fated” meeting? Brendon can’t tell if he’s found his soul mate, heartache, or all of the above.
Review: I gave this one 3 stars on Goodreads, and I often find those middle of the road reviews to be the most difficult to review sometimes. I liked aspects of All of the Above, but it was definitely not a favorite of mine and it's not something I could really recommend to just anyone. I think the whole "meet cute" idea is kind of fun, though the fact that Brendon orchestrated his could be seen as a bit creepy. Granted, I don't think he does anything too out of the box and he's obviously a good guy. I think my biggest issue with the book is that these two just didn't really seem to go together for me. There is an intriguing part later in the book where the two of them tell each other the things they don't like about each other (it's kind of the middle of an argument, so it's not out of the blue) and I was thinking "Yeah, they are kind of right...why do they like each other so much?" It's definitely a cute read, but again, it didn't really click with me.
3 comments:
Well, damn this was a bad read! I'm sorry it didn't work out for you!
I'm with you on how middle of the road books are harder to review sometimes. And I was looking forward to you liking this one, as it seems so often I fall in love with authors of articles like that. Great review! Feels like I haven't had a chance to read your blog in forever! Hoping with some of my goals to cut back a little on the blog tours I do next year, I can make sure to get out to visit all the blogs I want more often.
I was also thinking this is a different kind of premise, but yeah, it also could be considered kind of creepy. But aww, bummer about the lack of chemistry.
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