So, I Met This Guy . . . – Alexandra Potter

Published By: Macmillan
Pages: 464
Released On: 29/01/2026

So, I Met This Guy . . .

Well, isn’t that how every love story starts? But what we don’t know is, how will it end?

For Maggie, she certainly didn’t expect it to involve discovering the supposed love-of-her-life has stolen her life-savings, along with her home, heart and self-esteem.

So, when she meets Flick, a young reporter who realises this story could be the big break she’s been looking for, they set off together to catch him as he goes on the run across Europe. After all, she’s got nothing left to lose, right?

But as the pair embark on the road trip of their lives, unexpected twists, hidden secrets and hard truths are revealed. And as an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, they realise it’s not just about finding the guy, it’s about finding themselves . . .

*****

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.

I love Alexandra’s books so I was super excited about this, but it sadly fell short of her previous work for me.

I felt it was a little long. It wasn’t an outright bad book and I did enjoy it for the most part, but because it’s long, it feels very slow and it lags in parts, and you start to look at how many pages you’ve got left. There are faster bits and slower bits but overall I felt the pacing didn’t work.

I didn’t click with Flick (I was going to rephrase that but the rhyming made me giggle too much). She was okay, but I generally found her a little annoying and just couldn’t warm to her. I preferred Maggie, even though Flick was more my age range. I just instantly felt for Maggie and was willing her on the entire book. I didn’t really get their relationship either. It felt like the age gap was hammed up so much that it didn’t feel believable – I mean, how dare a 20-odd old woman not know who Grace Kelly was.

It really wasn’t anything like I expected. I was expecting a romance novel, a rom-com, but this isn’t that. Yes there is romance but that’s by-the-by, and if I’m honest, it’s light on the comedy too. It’s instead about female friendship, finding yourself, standing up for yourself, facing the truth, community, resilience – which are all fabulous topics, but completely jarring with my expectations.

We zip from place to place, Monte Carol to Ibiza to the Amalfi Coast. You really do get a sense of place here, Alexandra has really excelled at that. However, it again felt unbelievable. I know it’s fiction but it still needs to make sense in context. Somehow they managed to travel for two weeks, staying in the best hotels, drinking the best champagne, on very little budget and no-one seems to think that’s a bit odd.

Another bit I disliked is that this man they’re trying to find, the police have been looking for him for ages with no luck, but then Flick can find who he is, where he is, his aliases etc. within a matter of days, which just didn’t feel right.

I suppose my main issue with this book, and I have mentioned it a few times, is it’s believability. Novels don’t need to be real. Things can be weird and unbelievable – take fantasy books for instance – but they still need to be believable and make sense within the context of the novel’s world. And quite a lot of this didn’t feel real and so I was pulled out of it as a reader.

I think if you’re after an easy-to-read, quite low-energy, light book to while away a few hours on the beach or by the pool then this is perfect. But if you’re wanting something with a bit more meat on the bones, with more depth, better characters and a more believable and interesting plot, then this probably won’t be for you. Having said that, I generally love her work so this won’t put me off reading any more, it just clearly wasn’t the book for me.