VBT# Book Spotlight - Just Another Meet Cute - Jenn P Nguyen

 

 

Synopsis: Just Another Meet Cute - Jenn P. Nguyen - May 2025

Boy saves girl stuck on a disastrous hike. What could go wrong? So. Much.

Just Another Meet Cute is the joyful and funny story about what happens when you realize you're dating the wrong twin. 

When seventeen-year old Nina Riley gets saved by a super cute Knight-in-Faded-Khakis just as she lands in an embarrassingly 'ahem' sticky situation during the most disastrous hike known to man, she wasn't exactly looking for that meet cute. She really just needed some peace and quiet from her complicated family. Unfortunately, he disappears before she can properly thank him or get his number.

All she has is his name (Ian Nguyen) and a navy jacket with a dog keychain, a gym card, and laundromat receipt. But a meet cute is a meet cute. And armed with years of watching Veronica Mars and a techy cousin, it should be simple enough for Nina to find the boy of her dreams, right? But when she finally tracks him down, he's different than she thought - right down to his name. Ryan is just as cute as she remembers, but the chemistry isn't there like it was before.

After a few dates, she meets Ryan's his sweet grandma, his enthusiastic sisters, and his twin brother-Ian.

Goodreads Link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216879643-just-another-meet-cute?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22

With a deep sigh, Ryan stood up and walked behind my chair. “By the way, where did you get that jacket from?” he asked, pointing his chopsticks at the jacket draped on the back of my seat.

I almost choked on the mouthful of noodles I had just put in my mouth. It took a few minutes and a full glass of water to clear my throat enough to speak. My fingers played with the soft fabric for a second or two before picking it up. “Actually, I wanted to tell you—”

“It’s funny. It looks exactly like the jacket that Ian lost last week,” his sister, Anh, interrupted from the other table. “Remember when my car broke down on the highway and he had to come get me? Afterward, he rushed back to the hiking path to find the jacket.”

Ryan laughed. “I don’t know why. It’s a plain navy jacket. I bet . . .”

I couldn’t hear the rest of their conversation because there was a loud ringing in my ears when his sister said the name Ian. Surely, I heard her wrong. There was no way—it couldn’t be, because there was no Ian. There was just Ryan.

I cleared my throat. “Who’s Ian?”

“Ian, my twin brother.”

. . .

Twin brother. Twin brother. TWIN BROTHER.

The words echoed over and over in my head but it took a while for them to sink in. Like I had downed a mango slushie way too fast and my brain was still fighting the cold to work properly.

But if Ian wasn’t Ryan and Ryan was just Ryan, then that meant Ian actually existed. And if Ian existed then he was . . . he was . . .

Here.

As if I had conjured him by thinking his name too many times, a guy suddenly appeared at the doorway. Again with the light behind him like he was glowing. Still tall and lean like Ryan was, although now I could see that he was skinnier than his brother. He wasn’t wearing a cap this time. His hair was obviously shorter than Ryan’s and a bit darker. But the same eyes. The same perfectly straight nose. And even though he wasn’t smiling, I had a feeling that his dimple would be on the right side of his cheek. Not on the left like Ryan’s was.

Judging by the shocked look on Ian’s face, there was no doubt that this was my Ian.