Miss Match: Always the Matchmaker, Never the Match

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Miss Match: Always the Matchmaker, Never the Match was released 11 July 2017. The author Crystal Cestari is a Californian native. She holds a masters degree in mass communication and writes all her stories longhand. Her hobbies include breaking into song and dancing with her daughter and avoiding broccoli. There is a sequel to this book called Miss Match: The Truth About Destiny. She has also written other books such as the Windy City Magic series.

The book is about a girl named Amber whose family has a long history of magic and is a matchmaker. Literally. With five seconds of eye contact, she can see anyone’s soulmate...except for her own. But when Charlie Blitzman, the most wanted boy in the school and the son of the mayor, asks her for help, she finds herself slowly developing feelings for him despite knowing that she isn’t his soulmate. Throughout the book, she gets closer to Charlie but must battle with her own feelings and try to hold them at bay because she isn’t his match.

The plot itself is very unique and is not like your usual romance novels. It adds a little magic into it. It’s not your usual forbidden love where it’s life and death and two families at war with each other. It’s about a girl who can’t get with the guy because they just aren’t “meant to be”. Sometimes, the book got really boring and made you want to stop reading because there weren’t many scenes or cliffhangers there making you want to know more. None of the characters were particularly memorable in terms of personality, making the book quite bland as none of the characters drew you in and made you curious.

The writing itself was quite simple and mediocre. The language was not really complex and the descriptions weren’t the most interesting. While the plot was unique and had potential, the story ended up being quite bland and boring at many scenes. The descriptions didn’t really pop out and make you visualise what was happening. The book did not really make me realise any questions as the book did not interest me as much as I thought it would as I began reading.

My rating for the book is 6/10 because the ending was quite mediocre and nothing in the book was particularly captivating. There is a sequel but even the minor cliffhanger at the end left you feeling like you’d be okay without knowing what happens next and what happens to the main characters.