Sabine is an ice queen, a disillusioned cupid, who feels more comfortable with numbers – her day job is in finance – than with people. Abby is a permanent ray of sunshine, or, as everyone around her seems to think, following The Onion’s lead, a cinnamon roll. In Jae’s Sapphic Reading Challenge, there’s a Grumpy & Sunshine category. And what’s so fascinating about Sabine Goddard? Besides her piercing green eyes in the picture in Abby’s Statistics textbook, Sabine has been holding the title of Queen of the Perfect Match for the last ten years, a crown she receives every year in Vegas from Aphrodite herself. And meet her she will, though not the way she thought it would happen. Part of her enthusiasm stems from her hope of meeting Sabine Goddard. I laughed reading the chapter titles in the table of contents.Ībby Angellini is a brand new cupid and she’s all excited about her first Vegas Cupid Convention. The Perfect Match, on the other hand, is light and fun and had me laughing right from the start. It’s earnest and smart, much as its main character, Jamie. McKay’s debut is a love story with a fundamental #MeToo component. Not only did I love The Perfect Match, but I also loved that it’s so different from The Delicate Things We Make. And so of course, I opened The Perfect Match with that niggling fear at the back of my mind.

When I fall in love with an author’s first book, I always worry that I won’t like their second one as much. I didn’t have to miss her writing for too long, as she’s already releasing another story. 4.5⭐️ – I’ve been raving about Milena McKay’s debut novel, The Delicate Things We Make, since I read it a couple of weeks ago, and recommending it to all my friends.

The Perfect Match by Milena McKay