Meant to Be Mine

A Novel

By: Hannah Orenstein

Narrated by: Erin Ruth Walker

From the author of Maine Characters and Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the date she’ll meet her true love—only he isn’t quite as perfect as she always imagined.

What if you knew exactly when you’d meet the love of your life? Edie Meyer knows. When her Grandma Gloria was a young woman, she had a vision of the exact day she would meet her soul mate—and then Grandpa Ray showed up.

Since then, Gloria has accurately predicted the day every single member of the family has met their match. Edie’s day arrives on June 24, 2022, when she’s twenty-nine years old. She has been waiting for it half her life. That morning, she boards an airplane to her twin sister’s surprise engagement, and when a handsome musician sits beside her, she knows it’s meant to be.

But fate comes with more complications than Edie expected and she can’t fight the nagging suspicion that her perfect guy doesn’t have perfect timing. After a tragedy and a shocking revelation rock Edie’s carefully constructed world, she’s forced to consider whether love chooses us, as simple as destiny, or if we choose it ourselves.

Odd Narration

When I first started this book, I thought perhaps it was some sort of automated narration. But then I noticed there was a narrator name on the title. Maybe this was her first narration and it was rushed to be released? The odd inflection and mechanical speech distracted from an otherwise nice story.

Okay love story fast read

The story is okay and fun but the narrator is bad. I thought it was a robot at first. :s

Okay story but narrator was terrible

The narrator was stilted and robotic from beginning to end. I hoped she’d improve, but nope!

Struggled with the narrator

I couldn't get past the first few minutes because I found the narrator's reading / performance so distracting. I couldn't find an audio sample before I downloaded it, but I decided to risk it anyway. Bad decision! I normally don't write reviews, but I want to save others from the same fate. Buy the book instead.

DNF

The resolution becomes clear in the first 15 minutes so there’s nothing to keep you there.