Book Review: The Night We Met By Abby Jimenez

Main Characters

Larissa
Mike
Chris

Publisher’s Summary

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

For Larissa, it came when choosing which guy to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she’d met the perfect man. She and Chris are great together, 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 Chris isn’t the one who drove Larissa home all those months ago—Chris is her boyfriend’s best friend. 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. And he’s just not that guy.

My Thoughts on The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez

If you need me to convince you to read this book, just jump to the book quotes. I am that confident that the quotes below will be enough.

This book had me in my feelings. It’s emotional, romantic, and has that bittersweet tone that just lingers. The kind of story where you sit there after finishing like… “wait, I need a minute.”

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Favorite Quotes from The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez

Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.

― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

Love is self-sustaining. It doesn’t get weak and die when you don’t feed it. Even when I put it away, locked it up, shut in the deepest recesses of my heart, I still loved her in the dark. I could love her from a distance. I could love her in silence. I could love her without even wanting to. And I did.

― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

She’s not the great love of my life.” He looked me in the eye. “You are.”

― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

I would spend my existence silently cherishing a woman I’d never have. Someone I’d never kiss or even hold hands with. This was my curse. The future I was condemned to. To never truly be happy—or to be happy for him. Because he did not. Fucking. Deserve. Her.

― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met