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If We Ever Meet Again

If We Ever Meet Again

Contemporary RomanceRomance
Pages
292
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Farrah Lin arrives in Shanghai for a year abroad expecting her first great romance, but the man who unsettles her most is Blake Ryan, a cocky former college football star who walked away from the sport at the height of his fame and fled overseas to keep his life simple. What begins as friction between two people with opposite outlooks deepens, over the course of a single year, into a first love neither of them planned for. As the calendar runs down toward the date Farrah is due to fly home, both must decide whether what they have can survive the distance and the lives waiting on the other side of the world. Told with warmth and a steady slow burn, the story follows the small daily intimacies of a relationship built far from home, the pull between ambition and the heart, and the ache of a love bounded by time. It opens Ana Huang's interconnected If Love series and her broader shared universe.

Prose complexity
3/10

Vibe

EmotionalHopefulHeartwarmingNostalgic
Friends to LoversSlow BurnForced ProximityComing of AgeFish Out of Water
Writing4.0Impact4.0Characters4.0Plot3.0Atmosphere3.0
Spice level
3.0 avg spice

Genres

Contemporary Romance Romance Contemporary Literature New Adult Romance

About the author

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Ana Huang

Chinese-American author Ana Huang is one of the defining names of the contemporary romance boom, a number one New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times bestseller whose books have sold more than twenty-five million copies and been translated into over thirty languages. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she studied international relations and spent time as an exchange student in Shanghai, a setting that surfaces in her earliest work. She began writing stories as a child to practice English an...

Characters

Farrah LinProtagonist

A nineteen-year-old aspiring interior designer spending a year studying abroad in Shanghai.

Blake RyanProtagonist

A former college football star who quit the sport at his peak and moved overseas for a simpler life.

All characters in If We Ever Meet Again

Frequently asked questions

  • Does this book need to be read in a specific order?

    This title is the first installment in the If Love series, and while all books by this author exist within a shared universe, each series is designed to be read independently.

  • How does the writing style compare to the author's other series?

    This series is written in the third-person perspective, which distinguishes it from the author's later works that utilize a first-person point of view.

  • Do I need to read the If Love books in a particular order?

    The first two books, If We Ever Meet Again and If the Sun Never Sets, are a duet about the same couple and should be read in order. The later books, including If Love Had a Price, are interconnected standalones in the same universe.

  • Does Farrah and Blake's story continue after this book?

    Yes. The direct sequel, If the Sun Never Sets, returns to Farrah and Blake roughly five years later and continues their relationship.

  • What inspired the Shanghai setting?

    Ana Huang studied abroad in China as an exchange student, and that experience informed the book's study-abroad premise and its Shanghai backdrop.

  • Where does this book fall in Ana Huang's career?

    It is part of her early If Love series, published in 2020, before the Twisted series made her a BookTok phenomenon. It is one of her first self-published works.

  • Is this connected to the Twisted or Kings of Sin books?

    It belongs to the separate, earlier If Love series, but all of Ana Huang's series share one loosely interconnected universe that fans call the Anaverse.

  • How steamy is this book?

    It is a new-adult romance written for adult readers, with explicit content and mature themes despite its college setting.

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