Love at First Sighting

De: Mallory Marlowe

Narrado por: Elizabeth Lamont, Iggy Toma

A chance at love might not be out of this world in the next romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Mallory Marlowe.

Los Angeles social media influencer El Martin seems to live the perfect aesthetic life. But what El wants more than anything is to find something real to make her heart race in a way it hasn’t in years. She doesn’t expect that feeling to come from capturing footage of an unidentified flying . . . thing, much less from the charming Man in Black who keeps following her around.

Agent Carter Brody is trying his best to keep the Private Intelligence Sector afloat by dragging their hopelessly out-of-date office into this century, even though what he really wants to do is follow in his father’s footsteps identifying and hiding extraterrestrial sightings. He gets his chance after being assigned to El’s case and is stopped in his tracks not only by her ingenuity and confidence, but also by the unnerving coincidence of how her sighting looks eerily like what he saw right before a family tragedy.

The deeper El and Carter fall into the mystery, the harder it is for them to ignore their growing chemistry, as their own alien feelings become dangerously terrestrial.

©2025 Mallory Marlowe (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Not a ufo

Last 3rd got a little too 50 shades of grey and lost me. Not sure if I’ll be picking up any recommendations from kindle for a while.

Adorable story, excellent narration

This is the adorable story of El and Carter: a romance set in an X-files-ish milieu. As another review mentioned, this story is refreshing at least in part because it manages to steer clear of tired romance tropes. These characters just really like each other! And they support each other's personal growth and self discovery. It's great.

I was attracted to this book in the first place because Iggy Toma is one of the narrators, and I enjoyed his work on the Guild Codex: Warped series. He does a first-class job on this book as does Elizabeth Lamont.

Finally, it is becoming more and more common among romance authors to give content warnings (and also feature lists) for their books, and I love that! So I will end with a statement from the author that I found in the comments on Goodreads:

"... I want to be very transparent with the content warnings in this book. When I first set out to write [Love at First Sighting] and realized it'd have to have an X-Files-esque mystery to it, I knew if I wanted to pull it off, I had to commit to it and not shy away from the adventure elements. It's still a rom-com and I would say if you're okay with the average episode of The X-Files, you'll probably be fine with LAFS, too!

"CWs: Love at First Sighting is first and foremost a romantic comedy, but it also contains a high-stakes mystery with action/adventure elements including the past deaths of parents (off-page), grief, guns/gun violence, car accidents (mentioned), a car chase, hand-to-hand/fist-fighting violence, sex, drinking, smoking, and adult language. If you are sensitive to any of these, please read with care."

I loved this!

Original love story with great narration! I loved these characters! It was funny, it had mystery, it was super cute! I can’t wait for whatever this author publishes next!

Another 5 star!

When I saw Mallory Marlowe was coming out with this follow up I was so excited. I have been waiting months and months for this book to come out and she did not disappoint. I could not consume it fast enough. The biggest disappointment? That I already finished it. Such a great, fun, funny story that also pulled at the heart strings. I can’t wait to see what comes next!

Love at first read!

I love this unique take on a classic love story. I was laughing the entire time and enjoyed all of the alien references