Meet Cute Diary

By: Emery Lee

Narrated by: Logan Rozos

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships.

Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem - all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans listeners across the globe.

When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn’t have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. But when Noah’s feelings grow beyond their staged romance, he realizes that dating in real life isn’t quite the same as finding love on the page.

In this charming novel by Emery Lee, Noah will have to choose between following his own rules for love or discovering that the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.

This audio edition is read by Logan Rozos of David Makes Man.

©2021 Emery Lee (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

A great read, but...

First, I definitely enjoyed this ebook. It was a great story, interesting direction of the plot, and the characters are well done. My overall "issue" if you can even call it that is how some things kinda got dropped as it goes.

The major conflict starts because of the troll, and it never really comes back to that. But so much stems from that, and it never really gets resolved.

The book is great. The story is wonderful, and maybe some of the choices were intentional given the narrative. I just was a little dissatisfied with that. Definitely will recommend the book though!

T4T is the moral

Excellent, very cute, the main character is pretty annoying at first but he goes through an arc throughout the story. I would die for Devin

Spreading the Truth of Love

It goes on the story of Noah on how love works. Specially the truth of love, the good with the bad. It’s theme/message at the end is something we should look up too. The novel is a one of a kind read, that’ll be recommending it to others.

Sweeet!

This is a typical teenage love story. The only thing that makes it interesting is that the main character is trans. Otherwise, the entire book was unbelievably predictable.

Bratty and delusional, not cute

After reading the excellent Café Con Lychee, I was excited to listen to an audiobook by the same author about a trans character, but I wasn't even able to finish. I found myself thinking "this guy needs an attitude adjustment, not an epic love story", and that's never a good thing. Also, the performer does something weird with their voice which makes the book difficult to listen to. Wish this book was better, cause stories like this are needed!

The books cute asf

Its got a great sense of humor and is really cute great recommendation great listen

Laughed out loud a few times!

I enjoyed this book. I liked the idea of a blogger who makes up meet cute stories, getting to live a fake, and a real meet cute.
I liked the humor.
Norah was too self centered to be a likable main character but did grow some. I wish he'd grown more. Devon was darling but over the top codependent. All in all, pretty accurate for teens. It was a great pick for the trans rights readathon and I recommend this to any nonbinary teen. Everyone deserves a love story.

I wish I liked it more than I did

The writing and characters are pretty subpar, if I’m being honest. The narrator’s voice is also just unpleasant to listen to, which made the listening experience even worse. It started out cute, but quickly spiraled into a hollow nothingness. The gender representation was great, but I think this is one you can skip, especially the audiobook version.

Main character racist

The main character Noah seemed to really hate White people and I feel like that’s the main reason he hated his brother’s girlfriend. Noah is extremely self centered. Noah also doesn’t act like a kid coming out as trans. People I know suffer from body dysmorphia and never just decided yep I’m a boy/girl. It seems unrealistic when it comes to that. I love Devins character even though I wish the book was actually about Devon rather than Noah.