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In the tradition of New Adult superstar Jessica Sorensen, Ellie Cahill’s debut novel is a charming friends-with-benefits story . . . with a twist!
What if after every bad breakup, there was someone to help “cleanse your palate”—someone who wouldn’t judge you, who was great in bed, someone you were sure not to fall in love with? “Sorbet sex” could solve everything—as long as it never got too sweet.
Joss and Matt have been friends since freshman year of college, meeting one night after Joss is dumped by her boyfriend. After a few drinks, Matt humors her with a proposition: that he’ll become her go-to guy whenever she needs to heal a broken heart. In return, she’ll do the same for him. The #1 Rule: They’ll never fall in love with each other. People scoff at the arrangement. But six years later, Joss and Matt are still the best of friends . . . with benefits.
Through a string of boyfriends and girlfriends—some almost perfect, some downright wrong—Joss and Matt are always there for each other when the going gets tough. No strings. No attachments. Piece of cake. No problem. After all, since they wrote the rules, surely they can play by them. Or can they?
Advance praise for When Joss Met Matt
“Hands down, one of my favorite New Adult reads . . . Ellie Cahill is definitely one to watch!”—New York Times bestselling author Cora Carmack
“This is one of those books that make you forget everything around you. Prepare to be consumed by this story.”—Sophie Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of Wild
“Fun, sexy, and full of amazing chemistry, When Joss Met Matt is an entertaining escape that will leave you smiling with every turn of the page.”—Cassie Mae, author of The Real Thing
- Sales Rank: #1081781 in Books
- Brand: Cahill, Ellie
- Published on: 2015-02-24
- Released on: 2015-02-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .71" w x 5.20" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review
Advance praise for When Joss Met Matt
“Hands down, one of my favorite New Adult reads . . . Ellie Cahill is definitely one to watch!”—New York Times bestselling author Cora Carmack
“This is one of those books that make you forget everything around you. Prepare to be consumed by this story.”—Sophie Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of Wild
“Fun, sexy, and full of amazing chemistry, When Joss Met Matt is an entertaining escape that will leave you smiling with every turn of the page.”—Cassie Mae, author of The Real Thing
About the Author
Ellie Cahill is a freelance writer and also writes books for young adults under the name Liz Czukas. She lives outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her husband, son, and the world’s loudest cat.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter One
Now
It took me weeks to work up the courage, but on a sunny Friday in May, I was finally ready to tell Matt that we couldn’t go on like this anymore. But, of course, I was stuck at work. I spent the afternoon feeling like I was standing with my toes curled around the end of the high dive. The anticipation was killing me. When I finished with the last patient of the day—a rabbit named Bugs—I rushed Nellie through the narcotic count and sterilizing the instruments. I wanted to get on the phone with Matt. Like yesterday.
When I snatched up my bag and dug for my phone, I came up empty. Oh, please let it be in the car, please let it be in the car . . . It would just figure if I’d lost my phone on the day I finally got up the nerve to talk to him. My heart pounded as I jogged across the parking lot.
“Come on, come on, come on . . .” I cupped my hands to the window and peered inside. There, on the floor of the passenger side, my phone was waiting. “Oh, thank you!” I didn’t know who I was talking to. The words just fell out of my mouth and a tide of relief made my knees weak.
I scooped up the phone and, clasping it to my chest, took a deep breath. I could do this.
“Just call him. All you have to do is call him. Figure out the rest later.”
But when I looked down at the screen there was already a text message from Matt himself waiting for me.
Joss, I need you tonight. Call me.
My heart shot into my throat. He only said he needed me for one reason, and one reason alone. It was only supposed to be after a breakup. He’d been seeing someone? The thought was like having a bucket of ice water dumped over my head.
All the time I spent figuring out how to tell him how I felt, and he was busy going out with someone? He’d never said a word.
“Oh God, I’m an idiot.” I let my head come down on the steering wheel, a little harder than I expected. “Ow.”
Maybe I’d misunderstood. Maybe he’d said it by accident. Maybe his autocorrect had done one of those weird things . . . maybe I was grasping at straws.
A knock on the window made me jump. It was my best work friend, Nellie, and she was laughing hard enough to make her ponytail bob up and down wildly. I turned the engine over and let the window down.
“That was hilarious,” she said.
“You scared the crap out of me.”
“Yeah, yeah. Call him.” The laughter was gone from her voice now.
“But he—”
“Ah-ah!” She held up a cautionary finger. “I don’t care. You were ready five minutes ago and I’m not going to let you weasel your way out of this.”
“But I think—”
“Stop.”
“Nel—”
“Shhh!” she snapped. “Call. Now.” And when I didn’t move she made as if to reach through the window to do it for me.
I yanked my phone out of reach, smacking the plastic Mardi Gras beads dangling from the rearview mirror with the back of my hand. They chittered gaily together. “I will.”
She rested her elbows on the window ledge and gestured with one hand for me to go ahead.
“I’m not going to do it in front of you.”
“Make the call, and I’ll walk away.”
I glared at her, but she just made that Nellie face that said, “Go ahead and try to change my mind. See how that goes for you.”
“I hate you,” I told her, but pressed the speed dial button for Matt. I turned the display so she could see his name and number.
“Thank you!” Her voice was perky now. “Now you better tell him, or I’ll have to hit you with my shoe on Monday, mmmkay? ’Kay.” And with that, she was gone, fingers waggling.
“You’re a terrible frie—” I started to call after her, but Matt cut me off.
“Hello?”
Instant butterflies. “I got your message.”
He got right to the point. “Are you busy?”
“No. I’m not.” I hoped he couldn’t hear how nervous I felt.
“Do you want to have dinner?”
“Huh?” I blinked.
“Dinner? You know, where you eat?”
I couldn’t help smiling, even while my stomach churned. “Yeah, I know dinner.”
“So, do you want some?”
Maybe I’d misinterpreted his text. Maybe it really had been one of those autocorrect disasters. “Um, sure. I guess.”
“Seven?”
“Okay.”
We said our goodbyes and disconnected. I stared at the blank phone for a moment. He would never suggest dinner if all he wanted was Sorbet. So maybe tonight was my night after all. The thought made my stomach go into a full-on Olympic gymnastics floor routine, my heart pounding and cold sweat making my skin prickle. I was going to need some serious courage, and I couldn’t think of a store that sold it on my way home from work.
Damn.
Seven years had led up to this. It was something of a miracle we were still on speaking terms after all we’d been through, and I was about to put it all on the line.
To think it had all started over my inability to drink beer.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
2 out of 5 Stars
By Anaïs Neumann
When Jocelyn Kiel met Matt Lehrer, she had just broken up with her high-school sweetheart, and the whole thing left a bitter taste in her mouth. Together, Matt and Joss come up with a theory that to forget about your last relatinship, you need Sorbet-Sex to cleanse your palate and start afresh to move on to the next course. After hearing about a few of Joss' failed attempts to find a sorbet candidate, Matt offers her his services.
The two of them then turn this into a real standing arrangement with written rules, and follow through with their own custom friends-with-benefits version for the next 7 years, following and nursing each other through failed relationships and heartbreaks, until sorbet sex seems to be the only thing that they are looking forward to...
What I loved about this book:
Nice writing, including flashbacks alternating between "now and then" which keep the readers on their toes (but also quite frankly frustrated because they want to know more)
Interesting concept (yet poor execution of it)
What I felt needed improvement:
No steamy scenes, but the main characters are quite promiscuitive and sleep around a lot...
The story becomes very redundant
Some dating stories were just over the top
"If dating is like doing the crossword, I've been writing in pencil and Matt was my eraser. Now, all of a sudden, I've got The New York Times Sunday Edition and a permanent marker."
I really didn't appreciate this book - which started out as a normal foreseeable friends-to-lovers story - mainly because I couldn't identify with the characters. They a started out like your average main characters, but then move more and more into the wrnong direction - at least that's not the direction I would have wanted them to go.
I would not say that they were promiscuous, but it seemed that throughout the (what was it, seven or eight years?) that the book covers, both Joss and Matt have had countless sexual encouters and well, that's not even the worst. Joss makes mistake over mistake (doesn't learn from them), and takes the whole Sorbet agreement so seriously (or looks forward to is so much) that she is with some of her boyfriends only out of convenience and is reluctant to go all the way them (relationship-wise at least). She doesn't fight for the person when things turn bad, or at the slightest little flaw, she leaves them. Then, she's also with guys she doesn't actually like. How sick is that?
Of course, you can guess why she does this. Not just becuase the sorbet sex soothes her ego, as she says.
[spoiler]Slowly but surely, it becomes clear that Joss wants to get through the "next boyfriend" as quickly as possible just to be able to get it from Matt again. Of course, she says has no feeling whatsoever for the guy.[/spoiler]
But since Sorbet Sex can only happen when both partners are available, Joss would become freakishly crazy and jealous when she's not getting it, especially when it turns out that Matt is in a relationship that could potentially become something more. That's when she starts acting like a seven-year old child, and that did annoy me to death.
"I always figured it would be me who found my perfect guy first. Matt wouldn't have cared if I cancelled the arrangement, but it makes me feel like a loser that he has Meghan, and I just broke up with Martin."
So really, both main characters, but especially Joss really seemed completely lost and stupid. And I just found it ridiculous that both characters would never really admit to their feelings. And even worse, Joss actually hurts Matt on several occasions.
"Why don't you want me?"When Joss Met Matt
"You're just..." I shrugged. "You're not my type, I guess."
I can't really criticize the writing in , because I think it was all skillfully done, and if it wouldn't have been for the flashbacks between now and then, which hinted exactly at what was going to happen and helped keep me on my toes, I definitely wouldn't have finished the book. We get to experience the story from Joss' point of view only, which unfortunately means we get to witness every single one of her relationships, however weird and over-the-top they might be (we get the odd guy that needs punching in the groin to get aroused, the guy that openly has a girlfriend on the side, the guy that's 10 years older...). It's probably the first time I wasn't unhappy that there were no graphic steamy scenes in a book, because frankly this book would have been full of it.
And that bring us back to the big problem of When Joss Met Matt : the content and the ridiculousness of the characters. I have nothing against friends-with-benefits stories, but this one is just void of any normal reasoning and full of unnecessary drama. The whole book is just about sex-scenes, and doesn't really (at least not until the end of the book) emphasize the relationship that Joss and Matt have as friends. It actually feels like they are only casual friends, not best friends...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
One of my favorite stories so far this year!
By Jessica Sotelo (Angie & Jessica's Dreamy Reads)
I try really hard to formulate eloquent reviews for really great books. But sometimes I just have to throw all etiquette to the side and just SQUEEEEEEE!!! This book..... oh my, this book... all the feels.... all the yummy. See? Incoherent blabbering. But, how desperately do we hope to be left feeling that way after reading a great book? Just over the moon happy that you found that kind of story? The holy grail of romances? This book is that.
I love the premise behind this story. It's more than just a romance, it's a coming of age story of self-discovery. This author pens an incredibly accurate portrayal of college life, life in dorms, how college life changes and grows from freshman year to graduation. It actually gave me flashbacks, it was so perfectly real. And then it examines how no matter where life takes you, you never outgrow the things, the people, the behaviors that really matter...
Joss has this skewed idea of what true love should look like. Matt seems to enjoy serial dating. He enjoys the company of beautiful college girls, but he's not much of a romantic and he's clearly not looking for commitment. When their respective romantic escapades falter, and it happens often, Joss and Matt use each other for "sorbet sex" to cleanse their sexual palate, erasing the bad memories of bad breakups and providing a clean slate for them to move on to the next. What could possibly go wrong?
It might sound cliche but it is SO SO SO NOT. When Joss Met Matt is like nothing I've read to date!!! It's such a refreshingly original concept wrought with emotion and angst, sensuality and friendship. It defines what I hope to find and feel in every new adult romance. I just loved it!!! Ellie Cahill's writing is clever and smart, the story is addicting. It's angsty and sweet and it hurts in all the best ways. I just loved it... I couldn't put this book down.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Really good!
By mandy
I really enjoyed this sweet, friends with benefits story. Joss and Matt meet freshman year at college. After getting dumped by her boyfriend and feeling heartbroken, Matt suggests he becomes her sorbet. As sorbet, they will have sex to "cleanse the palate" from her ex-boyfriend so he isn't the last guy she slept with and that they will continue this sorbet with each other anytime they need to get over the last person they slept with. They set a list of rules for their sorbet, one of them being that they must remain friends so that they don't need sorbet from each other. This story was incredibly cute and sweet, and at times kind of hilarious. I liked how this story was told in the now and in the past - it worked really well. I had a few minor issues with this story but overall, this was a solid 4 star book for me.
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