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Average rating3.8
Oxford - celebrated city of dreaming spires and class warfare - is an ambition come true for lesbian, geeky, upper-middle-class Charlotte and straight, charismatic, working-class Millie. Against the odds, theirs is an instant, best friendship. Forever. Exuberant Millie is a breath of fresh air for polite Charlotte and a force of nature within the university's hallowed walls. And they are going to be the best lawyers of their year and change the world. But their world changes instead when things go queerly sideways, and they haven't seen each other since. Ten years on and Charlotte returns to where it all began. She has a new job at a prestigious law firm and Oxford is as beautiful as ever. She's a safe distance from her overbearing barrister mother Nicola and three office floors from her snappy college mentor, Olivia. Then Millie bounds around the corner wanting to be friends again and it's as if the last decade never happened. Will it be different the second time around? Can they be friends again? Or will love and attraction change things? Meeting Millie is a sapphic romance about the nature of friendship, how two people change over the years, and how they see themselves and each other.
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2 primary booksOxford Romance is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Clare Ashton.
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This is more of a 2.5 star book for me, really.
I had really high expectations of this books because in some ways it was a second chance romance by way of coming of age. I loved a lot of aspects of this book, but it took some time for things to happen and I wanted to fast forward some of the sections in between.
I think this is a really really decently book, but I found the pacing a bit lacking. I felt like more could've happened in the course of the book.
It was an okay read though. It was a fine queer coming of age novel. I loved that it brings up some of the messier aspects of coming out at a later age, discovering your sexuality and coming to terms with it.