The story of Corinne, who has just moved to Chicago.
When a mysterious app shows up on her phone, she is not sure what to think, and turns to her new friends for their opinion.
As men from her past start to appear in her present, which one will she connect with?
A great read, emotional at times.

This was a cute, quick read. I really enjoyed the characters! Cori and her group of friends were exactly what I wanted to read about! The diversity presented in this book was a nice change from the norm. While I enjoyed the book overall, I felt like the app Met was a bit of a let down. I wanted a bit more than just occasional notifications. But it didn’t distract from the overall book and I still enjoyed it.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Really unique premise on this book. Very much enjoyed that. Our main character, Corinne, is new to Chicago. She is still grappling with the loss of her best friend from cancer. One day she wakes up and finds a new app on her phone called Met. The app cannot be deleted and promises to introduce her to several people from her past, with the knowledge that one of them is her soulmate.

One thing about this book that I very much appreciated was the diversity in the characters that felt authentic rather than just checking boxes. The plot was certainly predictable, but not enough to make it an unsatisfying read. I did feel the book at some point suffered from pacing issues and that perhaps another round of editing and fleshing out of certain plotlines was needed. One thing I would have enjoyed specifically is a greater understanding of how the app actually worked. I know this seems like a small gripe, but it just would have made the story a bit more fun and interesting if we've been able to have a full understanding of how it was facilitated. I will say I was very happy with the fact that the book wasn't aggressively focused on her love life and instead let us see glimpses into her friendships and family as well.

I very much enjoyed seeing Corinne's relationship with Joelle, even though Joelle wasn't actually a character within the novel. It's a testament to the author's ability to write authentic friendships. I also very much enjoyed the idea that platonic soulmates exist and found this very sweetly put.

All in all, this was a 3.5 star read for me. Not sensational, but also not something that I'll be deleting from my e-reader any time soon. Thank you to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book totally surprised me! I knew about the grief piece going into my read, but I found myself impacted way more than I had expected.

I am a huge fan of strong female friendships in reads, and this one absolutely did not disappoint. I loved the aspect of rekindling friendships, and I was even motivated to reach out to old friends by the end of my read! Plus, I wanted to be friends with Cori by the end!

I could’ve done with a bit more spice but I know not every book has to have that, so I definitely still enjoyed! I loved the diversity represented in the book, and I hope this is the direction that Women’s Fiction starts to head.

This is definitely a high 3 star for me. There is a lot that I enjoyed - reconnecting with people, finding yourself, dealing with grief. There were a few things that I did not enjoy - the whole app end result (don't want to spoil anything) and how it was created, the strife between the couple. I also enjoyed that it was truly a diverse cast - there is a bi character, a nonbinary character, different races, etc. I did feel that some of it was just included to include, but I still appreciated it nonetheless.

This was a good debut novel from Camille Baker, a cute summer read. I like that there’s a huge diversity of characters, it almost covers everyone. Great book that deals with coping with grief and finding love. Would recommend.

I really liked the premise of this book. This new dating app promises to send you past encounters, one of which is your soul mate. How much do you trust this app, especially when you’ve just recently met someone on your own, and are liking how things are going.

The friendship between Cori, Elise and Tee was so nice to watch. I love easy female friendships where they are there for a support each other.

The relationship between the Corys was okay. I did feel it, and liked the slow burn, but then their fights and disagreements made no sense to me. I also thought that Cori would have more luck with her matches to add some question into the book. She connects with Cory, and her matches from the app seem to get worse and worse. Why wouldn’t they send people that may be her match to make this decision hard, and the story have more question to it.

Great book! It was fresh and so well written. I fell in love with the story. The main character was amazing and you just wanted to be friends with her. Loved this book.

This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a cute concept! Cori just moved to Chicago after her best friend died from cancer. One night her car gets a flat and she reaches out to her cousin who lives near by. After some shots and meeting new friends, Cori dropped her phone in a puddle. When she wakes up the next day and powers on her phone, she recognizes a new app on her phone that she can’t delete called MET. Basically the app puts 4 people from her past in her path and she had to decide which is her soul mate. Along the way, she starts to develop a friendship with a guy also named Cory who is best friends with her cousin. Their relationship is adorable and I truly was rooting for them from the start. I enjoyed their banter and the way their friendship developed. I also really enjoyed that the conflict in this story was something that would really happen in a new relationship and I like how they overcame it. All in all I loved this story and it felt like something that would really happen, besides the whole soulmate app thing. The characters were great and I loved their friendship dynamic.

This was a cute read. Perfect for a summer read because what a better time to read some romance is during summer.

This book is cute, funny and sad. Would you take the chance to reconnect with your soul mate from the past?

Camille Baker’s debut novel is a cute, new adult book about friendship, family, love and finding yourself. Cori was a relatable character who is just trying to figure herself out after moving to Chicago following the death of her best friend.
Review: giving this 3.5/5 ⭐️s. It’s so close to a 4 but I wish there had been more spice 🌶 throughout the book 👀. This is a delightful book and a pretty quick read. Throughout you find yourself anxious to know who the next person is thats going to walk into Cori’s life. Baker’s storytelling also just perfectly portrays how magical friendship is and how important it is as you look to find yourself as a post-grad adult out in the world.

I really enjoyed this quirky romance from debut author Camille Baker.

For starters, I found the flawed protagonist at the heart of the story to be entirely relatable.

Debilitated by grief after losing her best friend, Corinne struggles to move forward and make choices in her career and love life. That is until a mysterious dating app with a strange connection to her late friend appears on her phone.

And what an important message of self-love. By rekindling a series of relationships with people from her past, Corinne finally learns to trust herself.

I also appreciated the diversity of the characters, from positive representations of people with disabilities to major characters of different races and sexual orientations/identities.

And while the plot itself was overly predictable and the dating app trope was not explored as much as I would have liked, this charming read is a testament to the potential of this talented new author.

Interesting and fun premise with a sweet execution but it didn't quite come together. It felt like a book that had all the pieces but never fleshed them out into something that really works. Nothing is delved into in enough detail to be satisfying which is a shame because it's so close. Nonetheless, I had fun reading it. I did like all of the characters and the premise got me thinking enough for it to stay interesting.

This story follows Corinne who moves back to Chicago after the death of her best friend and narrates her journey to finding love through a mysterious app that appears on her phone.

This book was okay, it was rather inconsistent though and the plot felt all over the place. Corinne wasn't an easy character to connect to and most of the other characters felt one-dimensional. The idea was an interesting one, however.

This story follows Corinne who moves back to Chicago after the death of her best friend and narrates her journey to finding love through a mysterious app that appears on her phone.

This book was okay, it was rather inconsistent though and the plot felt all over the place. Corinne wasn't an easy character to connect to and most of the other characters felt one-dimensional. The idea was an interesting one, however.

Corinne has made a pretty bold move to return to Chicago, where she had met her best friend Joelle, and where Joelle had stayed to get her affairs in order with a terminal leukaemia diagnosis. Corinne's main focus is on her career, which is littered with temp jobs to fill the financial gaps in her life that her mother does not fill, whilst she waits for the perfect job to present itself. She does not have time for love, but suddenly a dating app finds itself installed on her phone called Met. Met isn't like other dating apps - it tells her that she has already met her soulmate, and there's a chance it could be one out of four people. With the encouragement of her cousin Tiwanda, and her cousins friend Elise, Corinne finds herself believing in this mysterious app and lets it influence her romantic decisions. Except for when it comes to Tiwanda and Elise's friend Cory.

After skimming through other reviews on this book, I can see that there is a bit of a divide, and many readers have either loved or hated it. Me? I'm stuck firmly in the middle.

There were features of this book that I loved, and a couple of particular aspects that I could not believe in. Bad news first, right?

Considering this book is based around love connections, I found the romance sorely lacking. In fact, I thought that Corinne was pretty mean to Cory, especially in the beginning. I could not work out why they wanted to be with each other. There was no spark. Even their conflict I could not fully grasp in my mind. The conflict with the dating app didn't justify their actions and it felt a bit of a cop out twist in the story to cause strife when there was a juicy ex holed away that could have caused much more fun tension such as at mostly-sober-game-night. Very frustrating.

"Cory stands with me because this is who we are, a seesaw of power dynamics."


Additionally, the actual logistics of the Met app were never explained, I tried to take it as a silly quirk of the story but it seems judging by the ending that there may be novels following on from the same format so it would be awesome if there were some answers in future novels. I really hate sometimes that I'm the kind of person who needs to know everything as sometimes it ruins books for me.

On the bright side, the things that I loved about this book includes its inclusiveness to POC, non-binary, and those with disabilities. This novel has genuinely made me want to learn BSL and I am hoping that in the future there is a romance novel with Lito as the main character as he was one of my favourites.

In fact, the relationships in general - apart from the one between Corinne and Cory - are really well written, which I think is why the romance looks so lacking next to the friendships Corinne has gained moving back to Chicago. The friends show a true comradeship based on a love to celebrate and a willingness to accept Corinne as part of the fold. Their interactions were constantly warm and friendly and they felt like the sunshine in Corinne's darkest insights.

The foundation of the story is the passing of Joelle, Corinne's best friend and platonic soul mate. I actually enjoyed this bittersweet storyline, Joelle really felt like a force even though she was not truly present in the novel. Corinne defining her life based on her relationship with Joelle sounds like a risky motive but it worked really well.

I particularly enjoyed the side character of Corinne's mother, she was the backbone of humour in the story, which is assisted by Corinne.

"My mom once told me I was attracted to people not because of what they have but rather what I lack. If that's true, then Cory must have some damn sense because I can't seem to find mine."


Even with negative opinions of aspects of this novel, I still found myself fully immersed in it. I am truly invested in the characters and hopefully their future romantic plights. I can only hope that they contain more spark than what Corinne and Cory have.

actual rating: 3.5/5

okay, i won’t lie. As someone whose absolute favorite fanfiction trope is soulmate AU’s, the plot of this book drew me in right away.

Imagine if Tinder was able to tell you when you were going to meet your soulmate. That’s what happens to Corinne in Have We Met when a mysterious app claiming to guide her to her soulmate is downloaded on her phone. The book is incredibly charming with a well rounded cast and a likeable main character. It also touches on healing from grief, platonic and romantic love, as well as some deaf representation. The ending is definitely a hint hint, wink wink towards more books in the series and I can’t wait.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

*Actual rating: 3.5*

Firstly a huge thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for my e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Have We Met follows Corinne a girl who’s contemplating her next move in a big city or next temp job who has just just lost her friend to cancer. The book begins with every woman’s worst nightmare (a car breakdown) that in my opinion sorts of sets the genesis of the events that follows. She ends up at her cousin’s house Tiwanda for the night and wakes up to find a mysterious app ‘Met” on her phone. At this point in the book if I was Corinne I would have reset my phone completely *gasp*. The app comes with an invitation to reconnect with four past connections because one of them is her soul mate. So we follow her as she fumbles through ‘chance meet-ups’ to find the one. I loved how the book also didn’t merely just focus on her love life but we saw her relationship with her family , friendships and how she inevitably finds her career. Totally loved the book’s representation as her brother was deaf *smiley face emoji*. This was a good book as it made me laugh, warm my heart and believe that eventually loves does find you. It did end with a somewhat cliffhanger so I pray the series continues

A captivating read with so much going on! Romance, grief, finding your direction, relocation, and possibly some supernatural-ish stuff going on!

After losing her best friend, Cori decides to move to her hometown , which she also lived in when she was younger. She is lost however, without her beloved BFF. She reconnects with her “cousin” and from there on, she is on a wild ride. Her phone gets wet and a new app is installed- a dating app that will reconnect you with 4 people you have already met, and one is your soulmate- you have to figure out which one it is. However, she also meets a new guy who captures her interest and she gets along with very well.

This book seriously has so much going on, but not in a confusing way. It is impossible to get bored while reading it, I was covert excited waiting to find out more about the people Cori has already met. I was also very interested in the exploration of grief- not what you’d expect in a romance that doesn’t involve a widow for example. Impossible to put downM