Review of "The Night We Met" By Abby Jimenez

Brief Summary Courtesy of Little, Brown Book Group

In everyone’s life, there’s a split-second decision that can change everything...

For Larissa, it came when choosing who to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she’d met the perfect man. She and Chris are great friends, co-parenting a slightly unhinged rescue Yorkie, sharing their favorite books, and judging bread (pumpernickel for the win!). For the first time amid all her side hustles to scrape by, things finally feel easy.

But she didn’t choose Chris to drive her home all those months ago—she went with his best friend, and he became her boyfriend. All Chris wants is for Larissa to be happy. Standing by on the sidelines is slowly killing him, but making a move would destroy someone else. How can something that feels so right be absolutely impossible?

My Review 

This is my third book by Abby Jimenez that I’ve read and the second one I’ve read in this series. Going into this book, I had high hopes because I really enjoyed the first book in the series that I read, so I was excited for this one. I did read the disclaimers beforehand and was okay with most of the content.

Without giving away too much, I personally felt like this book was a bit too predictable. Larrisa was hard for me to like because of her “poor me” attitude, and Chris was also difficult to connect with because he didn’t stand up for himself. I could have chosen to DNF the book, but I really enjoyed the audiobook version, with Teresa Palmer and Zach Webber narrating from Larrisa and Chris’s points of view.

I do appreciate that Abby provides disclaimers at the beginning about aspects that some readers may find difficult. I think everything she warned readers about was accurate.

I will still continue to read Abby’s books because I did enjoy her earlier ones. I would say that if you have a hard time reading about emotional cheating or characters dealing with substance abuse issues, I would recommend staying away from this one.