Title: He Found Me
Author: Joy Mullet
Publisher: Independently published
Genre: Dark Romance
Pages: 275
My Rating: ❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤
Buy this book on Amazon
He Found Me
Leo and Katie met when they were just 15 years old. Katie was on holiday in Italy with her mother, and Leo lived there. After the holiday, Katie went back to England, and they kept in touch by writing letters and calling each other. When they were 16, they promised that if they were both still single at 30, they would get married. But then they lost contact. So when Katie turns 30 and receives a wedding invitation, for her own wedding with Leo, she’s completely surprised and thinks it must be a joke. But it’s not.
Review
I’ve read a lot of romances in the last couple of weeks, and I wanted to read something different, so I decided to pick up this dark romance. It was still a romance, but different. I actually found this book on TikTok. The author made a video about it, and it sounded really interesting.
I have mixed feelings about this book, but let’s start with the positives like I always do. I won’t lie, the plot idea is pretty great, interesting, and funny. I mean, imagine receiving a wedding invitation to your own wedding. Of course, you would think it’s a prank or something. In this case, it was very real. The whole wedding was already planned, and he had already set a date.
I also liked that the book was a bit on the shorter side. I finished it in just a couple of hours. I thought it had around 200 pages, but it actually has 277. It still felt shorter, though, and the fact that I flew through it is definitely a good sign. I could really see the potential in the story.
But there were also a few things I didn’t like, and let’s start with the obvious one: grammar mistakes. There were a lot of them. English isn’t my first language, but even I could easily spot them. At first, I thought it was just one or two errors. everyone makes mistakes, but it kept happening throughout the whole book. It made it feel a bit amateurish. At one point, I even thought a child had written it.
Then there were smaller, more personal things I didn’t love. For example, I thought it was strange that Katie tried to escape one moment, and the next, she was suddenly making out with him. It felt like she developed Stockholm syndrome the second she saw him. The sudden change in her behavior gave me whiplash.
And then we have the ending. It was strange and unexpected. Normally, I love a good plot twist, but this one just felt a bit off.
Honestly, I’m not sure if I would recommend this book. It definitely has potential, and I respect that the author self-published it — that’s really cool, and she’s clearly chasing her dreams. But I do think the book would have benefited from an editor or at least a proofreader. The grammar mistakes alone are the main reason I wouldn’t recommend it, unless you don’t mind that sort of thing.