Book Review: Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams

Beatle meets Destiny on Friday the 13th of Feburary.  Neither one of them was supposed to be at the tram stop.  Beatle is there because he was shooting some pool with the guys, but, due to it being Friday the 13th and Beatle being someone who exercises caution when it comes to superstition, decided to call it an early night.  Destiny is there, wearing sunglasses at night (which is why Beatle had to say something to her - how could he not?), due to the fact that she had detention for something so ridiculous it doesn't bear talking about, which led to a whole series of unfortunate events which meant she couldn't go to the Blue Train concert with her friends and is instead headed home early on a Friday night.  Without her glasses, which she left in Mathilde's purse, hence the sunglasses.

So they go get an ice cream.  And Destiny kisses Beatle.  And it's amazing.

But there's the tiniest catch - Beatle's girfriend, Cilla.  Who is his twin sister Winsome's best friend.  And who stuck by him when he had his stroke.  Which is why Beatle definitely shouldn't have taken Destiny to the botanical gardens for a Valentine's Day picnic lunch and more kissing when, out of all the coffee shops in Melbourne, Destiny walks into his 4 minutes before his shift ends.  Add into the mix that Destiny's older brother Frank is Beatle, Cilla, and Winsome's English teacher, and you've got pretty much a huge mess of fate.  What's a boy to do when he meets the perfect girl at the wrong time?

If you adored Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Where She Went or wish author Stephanie Perkins was your best friend, add this smart, sweet and very quirky romance about chance, coincidence, and finding your destiny at the oh-so-wrong time to your must read list!

Megan
(now reading Morris award nominee The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson)