The Night We Met
Abby Jimenez, 2025
A love so consuming it feels dangerous, and the quieter question underneath: can you build a life with someone who changes the weather in you? The mood runs intense and lyrical, with longing and hope pushing against a love that feels dramatic and risky.
Feels like longing and hope. About love, memory and home.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with heightened emotion, memory, and a love that feels larger than the people in it. The dramatic, consuming tone may wear on you if you prefer a calmer, lower-conflict love story.
Why read it
It offers a charged, intimate look at love that unsettles rather than settles you, and at the hope and memory that remain around it.
A page from the book
Some love feels less like a shelter than a match.
Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it. Abby Jimenez.Before she wrote romance, Abby Jimenez founded the bakery Nadia Cakes and won Food Network’s Cupcake Wars.
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Questions readers ask
- Is The Night We Met for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with heightened emotion, memory, and a love that feels larger than the people in it. The dramatic, consuming tone may wear on you if you prefer a calmer, lower-conflict love story.
- What is The Night We Met like?
- The mood runs intense and lyrical, with longing and hope pushing against a love that feels dramatic and risky. Feels like longing and hope. About love, memory and home.
- What should I read after The Night We Met?
- If you liked The Night We Met, try Defy Me (Tahereh Mafi), Love and Other Words (Christina Lauren) and The Last Letter (Rebecca Yarros).
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The ordinary moment that makes all the fighting worth it.
I want to remember to celebrate more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I want to allow myself to be happy more frequently. I want to remember, forever, this look on Aaron’s face, as he’s bullied into blowing out his birthday candles for the very first time. This is, after all, what we’re fighting for, isn’t it? A second chance at joy.
Defy Me · Tahereh Mafi
What it sounds like to wait eleven years without making it an accusation.
I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.
Love and Other Words · Christina Lauren
What it costs to be trusted by someone who has stopped believing.
I would do anything for you.” His eyes locked onto mine in the dashboard lights, intense and a little hurt. “What is it going to take for you to believe me? To trust me? You want my background checked? Do it. You want my credit score? Awesome. My bank account? I’ll add you on. You have my word, my body, my time, and I’m standing here offering my last name. What else can I give you?
The Last Letter · Rebecca Yarros
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