The Near Miss | By Lily Joseph

The Near Miss is a rom-com with a series of unfortunate events and a cosmic touch that links the two main leads. At the beginning of the story, I was really looking forward to the meeting of the leads after a couple of near misses. However, when you hit the 80% mark and there is still no chance of them connecting the dots, it gets frustrating.

The story was just all over the place and many of the set-ups never paid off. It makes wonder if you needed all those events or you could have simply focused on a narrowed down storyline because these characters and the settings definitely have potential. But the romance was too little too late.

Both Wren and Nick are well flushed out characters. The brief moment they had together radiated with electrifying chemistry. The only problem is you don’t get enough of them.

However, they were definitely three-dimensional human beings with different lives going on. I was even invested in the internal conflict that both Wren and Nick experienced in their lives regarding their absent parent. But the story took upon more side quests than it can chew upon. It left is wanting more of the main quest which felt sidelined. Also,   it could have redeemed if the ending landed smoothly by making them realise all the loose ends. There was even a potential for a central conflict once all the pieces clicked. Instead, we get the initial jitters of two people coming together for the first time, and that’s it.

The Near Miss was a one time read for me. It is a fun closed door romance novel if you are in the mood for that. But keep your expectations low because this is more of a coming of age for two adults than romance.