And Then There Was You 

344 pages Publisher G.P. Putnam’s Sons Publication date November 18, 2025

ABOUT THE BOOK

She’s found the perfect man . . . There’s just one big twist.

Stuck in a Production Assistant job and living at home with her parents after a painful breakup, thirty-one-year-old Chloe Fairway isn’t where she wants to be in life. The last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her “most likely to succeed” at her upcoming ten-year college reunion. And she definitely doesn’t want to see her former best friend, Sean Adler, who is now a hotshot film director living the life Chloe dreamed of. Desperate to make a splash—and to save face in front of the man who might be the one that got away—she turns to a mysterious dating service.

Enter Rob, her handsome, well-read, and charming match, the perfect plus-one to take to her reunion. The more she gets to know him, the more perfect he appears to be. Could it be that this dating service knows her better than she knows herself? And can she overlook the one big catch? As Chloe reconnects with old friends, she begins to question everything she thought she wanted. Maybe, just maybe, revisiting the past is exactly what she needs to move forward.

MY THOUGHTS

I enjoy the author’s books a lot, so I really didn’t even read what the book was about when I requested it.
I will admit while reading it I had conflicting feelings about the book.
Chloe Fairway has come out of another failed relationship, and she still lives at home with her parents. For someone voted most likely to succeed she’s not feeling too successful right now.
At the suggestion of a friend, she tries a very secretive and exclusive matchmaking service.
And here we come with the tricky part, you are matched with a boibot, in other words a robot. It’s so realistic that no one can tell it’s not the real deal.
It’s programmed to be the perfect partner, saying and doing all the right things and to have all the same interest as you.
I’m not one to read sff, it’s just not my thing. It wasn’t total sf but just different. The more time she spent with this robot the more she realized human interaction and real emotions are what she actually needs.
There is something to be said about something being too perfect.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

MEET THE AUTHOR

About the author

Sophie Cousens is a New York Times bestselling author. She has written four novels; This Time Next Year, Just Haven’t Met You Yet, Before I Do and The Good Part. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages and the rights optioned for film and TV. She appears in the Library Reads Hall of Fame, with books that are consistently recommended by library staff. Sophie adapted her debut novel This Time Next Year into a screenplay and the film, staring Sophie Cookson and Lucien Laviscount, should be released late 2024.

Before become a writer, she had a career in television. Producing shows such as, The Graham Norton Show, Big Brother and Russell Howard’s Good News. Her novels are romantic comedies, full of heart, hope and memorable characters. She is a huge fan of 90s rom coms, Bridget Jones, Four Weddings a Funeral and ‘anything with Sandra Bullock or Reese Witherspoon in it.’

Sophie currently lives in Jersey where she now writes full time. She is married with two small children who keep her occupied with important questions such as ‘but did Cinderella have a toothbrush?’ and ‘do giraffe’s know they have really long necks?’ She is currently working on her fifth novel, ‘Is She Really Going Out With Him?’

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