Enjoyable but didn’t blow me away. Funny but not laugh out loud. Heart warming and romantic but formulaic and predictable. The characters are likeable and the changing point of view story telling is easy to follow. A pleasant read but unlikely to be a repeat read.

Thank you Netgalley

I liked the dual perspective. Other than that the story was a bit bland. It seemed excessively lovey dovey,

Cancel your plans, clear your schedule and switch off your phone because Zara Stoneley is back with an uproarious, unputdownable and wonderfully romantic new novel you will not be able to put down: Meet Me on Platform 3.

Millie loves her new life in the big city. She has got a wonderful circle of friends, a terrific job writing a true confessions column and one of the world’s most majestic cities as her playground. Millie should feel as if she’s on top of the world and that everything is going swimmingly, but lately, she has started to feel restless. Is the city where Millie belongs? Or should she be head back home to Northumberland to be with her mum, who is struggling after the death of Millie’s dad?

Joe has no reason to complain about his life. He has got a job he loves and his priority is to continue to forge forward with his life. Looking backwards is the very last thing he is interested in. For Joe, harking back to the past is a mistake that prevents you from achieving your next goal and hitting your next target. Joe has big plans for the future – plans which involve seeing the world and making the most out of every day. However, best laid plans do have a habit of going awry as he discovers when he meets Millie.

Millie and Joe are polar opposites. They want different things out of life and are diametrically opposed in every way possible. Yet, there is something that binds the two of them together and makes them wonder whether they could ever have a future together – or whether they are both travelling in different directions and on different tracks…

Rom-com queen Zara Stoneley hits it out of the park yet again with her latest novel, Meet Me on Platform 3. Hilariously funny, immensely emotional and so entertaining I found myself still engrossed in this book in the early hours of the morning, Meet Me on Platform 3 is a hugely enjoyable romantic comedy that will have you roaring with laughter on one page and reaching for the tissues on another.

As brilliant as ever, Zara Stoneley strikes gold with her latest novel, Meet Me on Platform 3.

A very sweet read, full of lively conversations, misunderstandings and reconciliations, family love and making choices to keep a beautiful relationship.

ZARA STONELEY: MEET ME ON PLATFORM 3.

THE PLOT:
Two people. One chance meeting. Two lives heading In different directions. Can it ever work?

MY THOUGHTS: I’ve read a few books by Zara Stoneley, and I have to say I have enjoyed them all immensely.
Meet Me On Platform 3 is a sweet love story. Millie and Joe are well written and likeable characters, who I desperately wanted to find their happily ever afters.
This is of course a love story, but the story is so much more, and has real depth.
Zara Stoneley writes with fluid ease. The words bounce off the page.
Over all, this is a delightful read, full of warmth and some great humour.
A solid story, that will melt your heart and leave you full of all the feels.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Out now on all formats.

LINK TO BUY: Meet Me on Platform 3: The brand new uplifting and romantic romcom of summer 2022!: Book 9 (The Zara Stoneley Romantic Comedy Collection) https://amzn.eu/d/en9S5Mu

With thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins Uk One More Chapter for a digital arc of this title.

Meet Me on Platform 3 was such a sweet story. I fell for these characters in the same way they fell for each other. Do you ever bump into someone in the street and then picture your entire life with them and then they’re gone? If yes, then read this book.

Mille is a writer for a confessions column, living in London, but she starts to wonder whether she would prefer to live her life back home in Northumberland. Joe writes games and works for a company that send him to different companies for certain periods of time. At the beginning of this book, he is based in London but commutes home to Northumberland on Thursday evenings. Millie travels home a day early (on a Thursday evening) to spend the time with her mum who is struggling with the death of Millie’s dad. On her way into the station, she almost gets drenched by a man and his umbrella, and when she looks up to meet him, he is the most gorgeous man she has seen. And yes, it is Joe!

‘Well, whatever you decide, decide what’s best for you, Millie. But remember to take care of your heart as well as your head.’

From this chance encounter brews an adorable romance, where both parties search the station for the following two weeks to try and bump into one another again. Eventually, it happens and they grow closer on their weekly commutes up North. Millie has been struggling to write an article her boss loves, until she writes about her first encounter with Joe. Her boss and their readers love this story and are glued to the column for the next updates. The only issue is Joe is a very private person and is unaware that the moments he thought private are being shared nationally.

‘Home can be anywhere if you’re with the person you love. Where they are is where you’re meant to be.’

I honestly couldn’t put this book down as I was desperate for these two to get their happy ever after. They went through their share of their ups and downs and I was rooting for them to figure out how they could be together and still live the lives they wanted to. Overall, this was such a cute romance and I really enjoyed it!

This was a sweet and , quirky romance! I really enjoyed the setting in London. Millie and Joe were cute characters. This book had some very funny moments that kept me smiling. I will have to keep this author on my radar!

I love the title. I adore the cover. I was captured by the synopsis...
...and the story within did not disappoint!

When first we meet Millie, her life is on a downward swing...or so she thinks. Her career is on edge, her mom has her worried, and her love life is simply not there. When a random series of events unfolds, leaving her doused in more than rainwater, her heart is finally in the game. But how to balance things when there are so many unknowns? It's easy enough to say call him or email him, but when the moment struck her so hard, it blasted the retort right out of her, it also wiped her mind of the practicalities of communication, both now and future, leaving her heart lonely for someone she didn't even know.

When we first meet Joe, he's making a mess of things...or so he thinks. His career is more stable, but categorically boring. His family life is there, but the next generation isn't even a gleam in his loved one's eyes because there IS no loved one to share things with. His heart has taken a beating, so love is the last thing on his mind...UNTIL the big meet cute. To say Cupid had aimed true would be an understatement because as much as he drenched her and almost knocked her out (and not just with his good looks!), he was struck with the unfathomable instant understanding of what people feel when they say they've met "the one". However, his powers of communication don't work over non-existent means either, and without a phone number or email address, he's at a loss...lovelorn for someone he doesn't even know.

These two lost hearts find something magical when once again they meet, but the road to happily ever after never did run perfectly smooth. There are pitfalls to finding each other, misunderstandings to overcome, and revelations that need as much explaining as they do an open mind...and that's before we bring Johnny Q Public into the mix! How so? Oh, I failed to mention her job...think Carrie Bradshaw but more PG-13...and how art can imitate life, or in this case her life can make it into her job, and into the columns of the publication in which she's printed. EEK! That's a secret that I bet you can see going over easy...or NOT...and the aftershocks from that little beauty reverberate far and wide. Can they overcome their preconceived notions and personal pasts to reach for a future that could be spectacular...or will someone be left standing on platform 3? You'll have to read it to find out!

I throughly enjoyed this novel. In fact, it’s one of the few lately that has held my attention throughout the entire story. While I could see a few things coming, I never felt like rushing though it. I would definitely recommend it to friends.

A good, fun and an enjoyable read to pass the time with adorable characters and sweeping romance. Overall, I definitely enjoyed it

Meet me on platform 3 by Zara Stoneley

Millie writes a "confessions of" column for a magazine about the humorous things that happen in her life. The column starts to get stale until she is clutching for a story and writes about a chance encounter on a train platform. With a gorgeous stranger and then the column series begins of the hunt for the stranger.

The book is very novel and follows the journeys physically and metaphorically.

The characters are marvellous all of them. I Loved the honour and tension of the will they won’t they thread running through ultimately making for a can’t put down.

Great lighthearted can’t put down read.

A nice romance between two people meeting at a train station. One is very private and the other shares her life in the media for all the country to follow. Can they meet again, and can they make it work with this fundamental difference? Just as cute as a button, an enjoyable read.

I'm always so excited to read a new novel from @zarastonely!!

Millie has moved to London, following her childhood dream and works at a magazine writing a blog about her life...including the ups and downs of her dating life. Joe has also moved from the North of England down to London....they meet by accident at King's Cross Station.

Their spark is immediate and the novel centres around how their relationship develops...which isn't as straightforward as it sounds!

As always, the love story is addictive and so well written. The humour shines through and the characters are relateable and likeable!

A great read if you need a pick me up!

Thank you to @netgalley, @zarastonely amd @onemorechapterhc for the opportunity to review.

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I liked the concept of this book. A chance meeting in a train station, instant chemistry between the characters, not exchanging details and then hoping to meet again on the platform. It is a sweet book, but it wasn't for me. I missed the tension. I missed banter between the characters. All in all, it was a good book, just didn't completely captivate me as I like my romance novels to do.

MEET ME ON PLATFORM 3 is a sweet, quirky romance the starts on the train from London to parts north where both Joe and Millie’s family’s live. Joe goes home every weekend to help on the family farm, and Millie goes monthly to visit her widowed mother.

The story revolves around Millie’s newspaper column “Confessions of…”. She starts to gain popularity (and boss pressure) when she starts to write loosely on how she meets Joe. How much to share becomes an issue.

It is a good book although I thought a lot of time spent on not too important things. I kept wanting more of Joe and Millie even if just what they were thinking when not together. I loved all the characters yet missed the feeling of a desperate, burning kind of love I thought possible.

I received a copy of this book to read in advance. I am providing a review from that copy.

A good read about a budding relationship at a distance.

I enjoyed this read but felt at times it was a bit laboured and clunky.

I love Zara Stonely books. You're guaranteed a humourous and romantic read. If you need a pick me up or just want a feel good read you can't go wrong with this . Her books are so entertaining and heartwarming. I didn't want to put this down once I'd started . I was almost late for work! Recommended

It was... ok. Like a nice story to read on the train (especially there!), but nothing more.

Did I expected something more? Kinda. I though about overwhelming romance, great chemistry between them, happy ever after in the end, but here, I don't really feel it.

Like, it's ok, it's nice, not bad or anything, but I does not stole my heart at all.

3/5

DNF at 14%- This was just not well written. There was just endless thought processes and nothing actually happening. It seemed like a fan fiction a young girl would write, but with less action! I just couldn’t force myself to skim my way through the rest of this book.

Trigger Warnings
This book contains:
• Mention of abortion
• References to and discussion about the death of a loved one/parent
Characters
Millie and Joe both grew up on the Moors in Northumbria (northern England region) but dreamed of moving to London and being successful. While Millie pursued London despite the setbacks that seemed to make it as difficult as possible, Joe was supported by his family every step of the way.
As a writer, Millie’s security in London is only as good as her last piece of work. And recently that’s been questionable. Joe on the other hand works in a more solid industry where contracts often run longer than initially intended but working for a company that contracts him out means he could be sent somewhere other than London at the end of any project.
Storyline
Millie, literally, walks into Joe and has such a sweet meet-cute she has to include meeting him in her next weekly column. She just needs to make it funnier.
As it turns out, readers of her column love the meet cute and want more of Joe which means Millie’s now on a mission to find Joe again even though she has no idea what train he was getting when she bumped into him, if he regularly gets the train on a Thursday or Friday (if at all) and if there’s any chance of seeing him again.
Overall Thoughts
I smashed through this on holidays (while recovering from being horribly ill, who needs that on a holiday?) enjoying almost every minute of it. The little bit’s I didn’t enjoy so much are the bit’s you’re not meant to, because they add drama. So, it was totally fine!
Not only were both characters highly cute and sweet, but they also had depth in their flaws as they tried to find a way to work together. Since I’m not usually a fan of sweet romances, that depth and complexity added the little spicy-ness I needed to truly enjoy a romance set on the train lines of England.
I think the only thing that confused me a little as I was reading it was how the train systems worked. Sometimes if they didn’t get their train it meant they’d be without a ticket for a later train, but other times it was fine if they just waited for a later one?
That little detail probably wouldn’t be so obvious if I didn’t pretty much read the entire book in one sitting, but I did so I noticed it. If those tiny little things don’t bother you as you read your latest romance fix, then you’ll be totally fine to enjoy a sweet but complex romance.