Book(s) Review: The Improbable Meet Cute collection

February 27, 2026

So my birthday was last month and I got a kindle from my dad and step mom. I have always been a “real book” person, and had a personal aversion to having an e-reader. I am not really sure why, I think I felt like it made me more scholarly or like more of a “real” reader. But, since becoming a mom, in particular a breast feeding mom, I have been wanting to do something that keeps me awake that isn’t turning the tv on and waking up the whole family, or losing hours of sleep scrolling on my phone. So this lead me to start reading books on my phone, but I am so easily distracted that I was having a hard time staying focused. Kind of like I am with this blog. get to the point aly. I got a kindle and with the kindle comes a free trial of kindle unlimited which has this adorable valentines day novella collection that I stumbled upon. Which gets us to the review. Because it is six novellas, this is going to be a bit of a longer blog, but I will categorize it all, so it isn’t as overwhelming ( hopefully ). I really liked these books ( for the most part, I will tell you which one I didn’t care for ) but will be writing the reviews in order of which I liked best and which I liked least. So, without further ado, here is the review for the Improbable Meet Cute collection:

Rosie and the Dreamboat

We follow the story of Rosie who is treating her sister to a spa day for her big promotion that she just got. Her sister has it all; a great job, plenty of money, her whole life together and just stunning to put the icing on the cake. Rosie is used to being a bit of a background character in her own family, and she really isn’t mad about it. Her sister is her best friend and she is happy to spend all of her savings to spoil her at the fancy spa. One of the treatments they have signed up for is a sensory deprivation tank that allows you to float weightlessly inside a state-of-the-art clamshell, which Rosie promptly gets stuck inside. the firefighters come and the spa threatens to sue them if they don’t do everything in their power not to ruin their very expensive new deathtrap, but thank goodness for Romeo ( who is actually named Leo, you’ll get it when you read it ) is there to calm her down in the hours that she is stuck inside. Romeo is compassionate and flirty and is able to keep her calm. Will she ever be set free? Will he fall in love with her sister in stead? Is this the man she has always dreamed of?

I honestly loved this book. It was so cute and while a lot of novellas feel rushed, this one felt so natural.

The Worst Wingman EVer

We follow two perspectives, but our main point of view is a gal named Holly who is taking care of her beloved grandmother who is fading fast. She is a hospice nurse herself, so being able to take care of her grandmother this way is the best way she can think to love on her in her final days. One day (Valentines day to be exact) while taking care of her, Holly finds a note on her car with a sex token in it. Not only is she not seeing someone, she for sure is not seeing the man that this token is for. Is this some kind of joke? She leaves a note saying that the person put the note on the wrong car, and there begins a pen pal relationship with someone who calls himself “The Worst Wingman Ever” for delivering his brothers valentine to the wrong tiny white honda. Will she ever meet this dreamy stranger or is it better to leave him a wonderful “what-if”?

This was so cute, and like the first one, the pacing was really lovely and didn’t feel rushed.

With Any Luck

we follow the story of Audrey Luck, who is anything but lucky. she has known for a long time that she is the girl that you date right before you find your soulmate. hers are the last lips you kiss before your last first kiss. it has always been that way. we meet her when her best friend is about to get married and she is the best maid the morning of her best friends wedding and, much to her horror, the groom is missing. she enlists the help of the man of honor to hunt him down without alerting the bride, but cannot find him anywhere. will she find him in time to get him down the aisle? did she kiss him at the bachelor party and now he doesn’t want to be with his fiancé? will she ever find love of her own?

the Exception to the Rule

a typo in an email address meant for a teacher connects two unlikely friends in a high school on a valentines day many years ago. over the course of the book we see the two connect every valentines day for years and years, not even knowing each others first names.

Royal Valentine

this and the books before it are all very close in ratings. every book in this collection was so precious.

in this story we follow the princess Ilaria, who is fed up with being the center of paparazzi's attention and just wants one weekend away. She works it out to trade places with her assistant, who just so happens to look enough like her that she can throw on some shades and a large hat and no one is the wiser. When she happens upon a gorgeous stranger, who doesn’t recognize when she is, a whirlwind romance unfolds, only this doesn’t feel short term. Could this really be love? Will the paparazzi catch up to her? Who really is her Irish heartthrob?

this book was so cute. I did really enjoy this story.

Drop, Cover, and Hold On

We meet our main character on, you guessed it, valentines day, and she is walking past her favorite bakery and is trying to convince herself she does not need to go in. Not after the way the owner has treated her. He seems to hate her and she really can’t understand why. She is a loyal costumer ( buying multiple pastries multiple times a week ) and even comes back and attempts to pay for the extra pasties that end up in her bag.( seriously how bad can someone be at their job that this happens as often as it does. she is going to run the poor man out of business. ) But her mind wanders, and so do her feet, and she finds herself in the completely sold out bakery. She is just about to leave, when the owner recognizes her and tells here there are a couple left and he’ll grab them which ends up saving her life. the is a massive earth quake and they both duck for cover. Now she is stuck inside the bakery, for lord knows how long, with this man who hates her with no way of getting out of the building or getting ahold of anyone she loves. Why does he hate her and will they get out before biting each others heads off?

This is the only one of the whole group that I actively dislike. It felt rushed and out of context and everything moved very fast ( as in it got spicy way before it should have ) and I simply did not care for it.

Overall, I really enjoyed this adorable collection of short love stories; they were just what I needed in the midst of the dark gloomy winter.