Will I love Meet Cute Diary?

This book tells the story of Noah, a trans teenager with a big secret—he’s the author of a popular Tumblr blog, the Meet Cute Diary. The only problem is the stories are all fake.

Noah reimagines random interactions he has with strangers into relationship meet-cutes to keep the blog alive. But when online haters begin to poke holes in his stories, Noah does whatever it takes to keep his blog safe—including inventing a fake relationship with a new friend. Over the course of the story, Noah makes many mistakes, confronts his own flaws, and discovers what it really means to… show more.

I was immediately intrigued by Noah’s blog about the happily ever after for trans people. My experiences have not exactly been happy ever after. The meet cute Noah has with Devin is not technically cute but really starts their relationship off on the right foot for them.

I love that Devin was also trying to figure out eir identity and decided to use e/em pronouns. Devin’s character was so sympathetic and codependently charming that e was a great vehicle to demonstrate nonbinary questioning and pronouns many people aren’t familiar with. I felt like Devin was confiding in me about pronouns… show more.

I may be biased about this book because I happened to read it during a really dark time in my life. It was exactly what I needed to get me back on my feet and lighten my mood. I loved being able to escape into Noah’s messy and hilarious love story and forget about the world around me. 10/10 I highly recommend this book!