Event Planner Hallie Goodman accidentally is sent digital videos from one of her bride’s ex boyfriends. While she knows that she should stop watching (or at at least fess up), she is immediately enthralled by the handsome astronaut on the other side of the screen.

When she decides to at least admit what she has done to the man she is watching videos of–Chris–he can’t help but notice how much he is enthralled by her, too.

This book is adorable. The concept hooked me immediately, and I found myself not wanting to put the book down! Hallie is relatable and funny, and her connection with Chris made me fall in love with them.

I absolutely adore a dual POV, and seeing into both Chris and Hallie’s lives made the book all the more endearing. I recommend you grab this for a lighthearted, but heartwarming read. Chris + Hallie will leave you smiling long after the book is done!

This was a cute and fun romance. I like how lighthearted and fun it was and am definitely glad I got to read it!

DNF for me... I read about 50 pages and was bored. I didn't love the female MC, she was a little too "quirky" (like, trying too hard to make her quirky) and I wasn't invested in her story.

Who would have thought that LOVE could come from emails and videos from the sky ?? When Captain Christopher Ortiz was traveling around in space he was sending his then girlfriend Darcy Hawthorne video diaries of his experience BUT when Darcy broke it off and was getting married to another she accidently send the videos to her WEDDING PLANNER !! Who makes a HUGE mistake like that or was it because Hallie Goodman found them charming, loving and the sweetest things she has ever seen !! Could this be a Cosmic Love even though he doesn’t know someone else has seen them until one day after he was back from his mission NASA sent him replies to his videos … hmmmm what is this all about ??

So, when Chris watches Hallie’s videos back to him he also feels a connection except they DON’T know each other !! A chance meeting perhaps .. an engagement party or a run in .. they all could work couldn’t they ?? Chris needed to get his life together first and figure out what he wants to do now since he didn’t return to NASA or the Air Force except his FATHER has other plans ??Hallie is the pink haired raven that he can’t get out of his mind and will do everything in his power to make Hallie his !!

Hallie has her own agenda because pleasing people is her mantra until it causes her heart and she doesn’t know how to stop the runaway train !! That is why she is so good at her job, Event Planning but family gets in her way too !!

Can these two get over everyone else’s problems and just work on themselves ?? Or will business opportunities pull them apart …. I LOVED these two characters !! They are so full of LOVE and LIFE except family will try and pull and push them apart …. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN !!

Such an emotional love story !! Fantastic writing !! Loved every word, video and Bandit !!

Ah, such a quirky fun read...

I loved the idea and theme of this book, an astronaut and a successful event planner in a cosmic-ridden love story. I loved how the premise of the story was set, I adored the slow-burn romance but hated the fact that the characters were so dumb about a few things.

I hate the parents in this book, they were just horrible and a few circumstances that were written in this book made me want to throw the kindle a few times, but I just held myself back at the last possible moment. This definitely shows that the author is great at writing emotions and lovely yet hateful family situations.

The friendships between the girls in this book were fabulous and the humor though few, shined very brightly. I love the fact that there were many women respecting men in this book Derek and Chris were great. I guess this book is a treat for all the slow-burn romance lovers.

I just wish the ever prolonging bad and difficult situations were less in this book, they put me on an edge and made me anxious even after the book was done.

I'm glad that this was my first book by Samantha Young and I hope to read more of her books soon. All slow-burn romance lovers can pick this book up.

This was a lot more emotional than I was expecting and I thought it was going to be more Rom-Com but it wasn’t. BUT, This was still an easy read and I do love the relationships that Samantha young writes! I will easily read anything she writes! 4⭐️ 1.5🌶️

I had been wanting to read this book for a very long time and when I got the email that I was approved for the arc, I had never been so excited. This book is BEAUTIFUL in a way you can't even describe it. I loved the storyline, the characters, the way they are so drawn to each other makes you go forward and read what happens next. I loved every bits of it. Would definitely recommend for everyone to start reading this book.
Thank you Valentine Pr for the arc.

“Being yours…that’s the only thing in my life I am one hundred percent certain I want and need to be.”

We are met with Hallie (event planner) starting off the story with an emotionally abusive boyfriend who is never given the credit she deserves. Enter in Chris (astronaut) who comes in at the right moment to let her know she is everything and more!

I just absolutely loved Hallie and Chris's story. They are examples of what love should look like, the innocence in the beginning turning into undeniable attraction and passion. If you are looking for a palate cleanser book, a feel good romance, this is the book for you. It will give you the swoon, smiles and chemistry to satisfy your needs.

This was my first book by this author and I cannot wait to check out more of her work!

I love Chris and Hallie. They have great chemistry and I loved their banter. There was a lot of drama, but it was relatively mild and each issue was resolved quickly and without much fanfare. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read that left me feeling very satisfied.

Okay, finished and I am obsessed with it. A meet cute through video diaries between an event planner & a former astronaut. There’s a lot that’s fun about this — Hallie and Chris’s dynamic, all the space references (fun fact, I actually have met one of the few Mexican NASA astronauts, Jose Hernandez!) and the tension it brings. This was a fun read overall and I’m excited to be showing it on my not-Air Force base but old town Navy base that kind of feels similar but not really!

A Cosmic Kind of Love
By Samantha Young
Publisher: Berkley Pub
Pub Date: 10.18.2022 ✨𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘣 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬!

Hallie, a pink-haired event planner, gets hooked up with Captain Chris Ortiz, a newly returned-to-earth astronaut, in this out-of-the-world romance.

Although there is a lot of miscommunication, some family dysfunction, and Chris not catching a clue about his scheming ex that keeps throwing meteors at their relationship - I loved this couple.

I felt like the premise was fun and interesting, with two hurting people finding each other in this vast galaxy. It’s a sexy, funny romance with a bit of spice, and, boy, are there some great one-liners in here.

Thank you to @letstalkbookspromo and @berkleypub for this gifted ebook.

🎧 I listened to the audiobook, which was fantastic, with dual narrators. Thank you @PRHaudio for the complimentary audiobook.

So this one was a little slow for me, although I did enjoy it in the end. I loved the idea of the two of them falling in love with the other separately using the videos they’d made. It made for a unique “meet-cute”. The two characters had a lot of back-story and I think sometimes that is what made the story seem like it dragged a little. But it was also good that they had so much back story because it made so much in the story different as well as added the drama we needed without it being drama for drama’s sake.

While in some cases I feel like Hallie might have overreacted a tiny bit, there were definitely things that Chris did NOT react the way he should have, or understand why she was feeling the way she did. I like how they did finally learn to communicate, and change the things they knew they needed to. It was great how the changes they were making actually lead to something being kind of over changing, if that makes sense.

The characters were all great in this, loved the setting, the storyline, all of it. And all the characters seemed to grow and change even just a little for the better.

“A Cosmic Kind of Love” is the story of Hallie Goodman, an event planner, and Christopher Ortiz, an astronaut. A romance that starts "accidentally". Hallie is organizing the wedding of a socialite, for which she sends her files with the ideas that she would like for her wedding, however within those files are some video letters from her ex, a popular astronaut of Mexican descent and who has a great number of followers. The event planner is captivated by him, so she watches all his videos in which he recounts his day-to-day in space. Feeling guilty, he sends her an apology video by email, but seeing that her emails are bounced, she continues sending videos of her day to day. What she doesn't know is that Christopher has actually seen them.

When they meet in person, the attraction is very strong but they decide to start with a friendship that grows stronger as the days go by and gives way to something stronger. But that later is put to the test by a small omission that leads to various situations that fracture trust. This book emphasizes the importance of values ​​such as honesty, empathy, trust and communication. Both characters find themselves in a bad family situation. Something I must mention is that both had a degree of naivete, which they overcome thanks to certain life lessons. Hallie is at that stage in her life where she is criticized for the failure of her love relationships and her work is belittled, even though she is very good at it. He has lived to please his parents, he does so in good faith and has tolerated their every selfish act. For his part, Chris has a dysfunctional relationship with his father, his mother and brother died, which further fractured the father-son bond. While Chris is quite popular and charismatic, his father is cold, distant and secretive, yet deep down Chris wants a reconciliation.

His relationship with Hallie makes him reflect and both create a complicity that makes his virtues stronger. Chris makes her feel valuable, empowering her. And she opens her eyes to reality. If you are looking for an entertaining, original read because how many romance books have you read with an astronaut as the MC???, with endearing characters that feel so real. As a plus, I really liked that my country was a theme in the book 🤭.

***𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰***

I have loved Young’s writing for years and this was an interesting branch out in a way from her normal type of story with the characters. Very much like Much Ado about You, this story will hit you hard with the emotions, the romance as a whole and so much more. Both leading characters have a lot of baggage that comes with them however that doesn’t take away from seeing these characters grow within the pages. I loved the wit and banter but the feel good storyline that we are given with this one. Chris and Hallie’s story is one that will make your heart happy and sing.

When events planner Hallie mistakenly opens a file from one of her clients and sees a video message from astronaut Christopher Ortiz to his then girlfriend she knows she shouldn’t but she can’t help but download the rest to watch. This leaves her feeling conflicted so she decides to send her own message to Chris explaining her actions. Meanwhile Chris is at a crossroads in his life. He’s back on earth, finished his job with NASA, resigned from the airforce with no idea what he’s going to do next so when NASA contacts him about Hallie he tells them to make it look like his email account is closed but curiosity means he can’t help but watch the video and the ones the come after, Even though Hallie thinks her emails are bouncing she finds something cathartic in venting her feelings in this manner. Till Chris decides maybe its time they meet…..

A Cosmic Kind of Love is very much a sweet, feel good, friends to lovers romance with a fantastic hero and heroine in Chris and Hallie . I loved the development of their relationship which was a thing of beauty. From friends to lovers until they were friends and lovers in equal measure. With plenty of chemistry between them, honestly I’m shocked this pair lasted as long as they did before jumping into bed together. Chris is probably the first person to look at Hallie and take her seriously. Yes, she’s fun loving and a bit chaotic but when it comes to her job she’s a professional and always gives it 100%. While Hallie doesn’t look at Chris and see the celebrity astronaut, she sees the loving man he is and encourages him to look into his Mexican heritage. There is some angst but its mainly of the parental variety, Hallie being caught up between her warring divorced parents and forced to constantly mediate between them while Chris feels that no matter what he does, in his father’s eyes, hell never live up to his deceased brother. Together they give each other the strength to follow their dreams. This book left me with a warm glow and a big smile on my face wondering where I can find my very own astronaut. Does anyone have NASA’s email…….?

"Fate? Or coincidence? Was there a fine line between both?"

A Cosmic kind of love by Samantha Young 🌌☄️🌠

Hallie Goodman is an event planner in New York's leading event management firm. In the digital files, her client send her for planning the engagement party, Halie found the digital video messages that her client's ex boyfriend sent her a year back, from space🛰
Before she knew it, Hallie was watching all of Chris's videos in which he mentions a number of things about space along with his personal thoughts and feelings.

She feels at unease for having gone through such private messages and decides to send Chris an apology video on the NASA email address he mentioned. But the email address seems to be dead as her mails are bouncing back.

Hallie's life is messy & chaotic because of her people pleasing tendencies which everyone seems to take advantage of & she also often finds herself dragged in between the fights of her divorced parents. On one lonely day, she decides to record her feelings & talk about her crazy life and sends it to the discontinued NASA email address, after all no one can see them, right?


Captain Christopher Ortiz is still adjusting to his life on earth and figuring out what to do next, after coming back from space while constantly being in grief of his older brother's death & trying to figure out (rather avoid) his relationship with his father, for whom anything Chis does is never good enough.

When his friend from NASA's IT department forwards him the videos messages Hallie sent, he couldn’t care much and therefore asks to make it look like the email address is dead. But the videos don’t stop coming and soon Chis finds himself attracted towards a certain woman with pink hairs & blue eyes and her incredible sence of humour.

Separated by screens, Chris & Hallie are falling for each other, one transmission at a time. But what would happen when they will meet in real life?


This book is cute & sweet with a number of crazy & hilarious moments along with the depth & drama of Chris & Hallie's family.
I was really invested in both of their messy lives, though I confess I got really angry at a number of side characters & wanted to punch them square in the face [I'm this 🤏 close to getting my boxing gloves out🥊]

Apart from these annoying side characters, there are 2 amazing people in Chris & Hallie's life, whom i really love. First is Althea, the most supportive & fiercely protective bestie of Hallie. Though I love her always being there for her, one of my favourite moments will be her pushing down a certain someone in the pool for being mean to Hallie😂🤭
Second is Chris's Aunt Richelle, she's the supportive parent figure in Chris's life who encourages him to do what he really wants in his life rather than getting influenced by his father's meddling. She's also very wise.

“You fall in love with the person, Chris, not the face. Otherwise it isn’t love.”

The book talks about self worth & putting oneself first is a beautiful way. The characters are flawed & you would love to watch them evolve in their lives by learning to deal with their family problems and life choices by putting themselves first✨️

"Sometimes you just need the reminder that you’re doing a good job, that you’re appreciated. We all need that, no matter who we are or what we’re doing.I feel appreciated today & I feel appreciative."

There are number of subjects like verbal and psychological parental abuse, cheating, feeling of not belonging to one's culture & heritage that the author has approached with care.


Thank you so much Netgalley, Valentine PR, Berkeley Publishing & Author Samantha Young for the eARC in exchange of an honest review

Pink-haired event planner, Hallie, accidentally views personal videos from famous latinx NASA astronaut meant only for his girlfriend whose wedding Hallie is now planning, to someone else. Then she watches them again and again. And then she thinks it’s a good idea to tell him the truth. Her life is already a mess anyways, why not?!

I enjoyed this unique story about falling in love over the internet with a stranger. The characters and the humor are great. The banter is EVERYTHING between these two and I’m here for strong female MCs (even if they don’t know it yet)! Superb romcom material.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Valentine PR, Berkley and Sam for the advance reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review!

I loved this book! It was easy to lose myself in this novel!

The romance between Hallie and Christopher can only be described as kismet. It’s a friends-to-lovers, slow burn with a technological meet cute that will leave you swooning and weak in the knees.

Hallie has my dream job! She works at a highly sought after party planning company.

And Christopher is so accomplished! He’s a young RETIRED astronaut 🧑‍🚀.

Where’s my space hottie? 😍

The description of A Cosmic Kind of Love was so close to one of my all-time favorite catnip tropes (anonymous communicators/mistaken identities) that I decided to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did! I loved the start of the book with the exchange of video diaries that neither realized the other was watching. It then morphed into a friends-to-lovers (another catnip trope) slowish burn that I devoured. The two MCs were super interesting-- a former astronaut who never really intended to go to space and a people-pleasing big-time event coordinator. Both have complicated family issues and delightful supportive people in their lives. Some communication issues were at the heart of the conflict, which sometimes bothers me, but they were handled really well, IMO. Overall, a fun read!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my thoughts.

3.75stars-A COSMIC KIND OF LOVE by Samantha Young is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, romance story line focusing on thirty-five year old, US Air Force Captain and NASA Astronaut Captain Christopher Ortiz, and thirty year old, event planner Hallie Goodman.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Hallie and Christopher ) using present day and video diaries, A COSMIC KIND OF LOVE follows the building romance and relationship between thirty-five year old, US Air Force Captain and NASA Astronaut Captain Christopher Ortiz, and thirty year old, event planner Hallie Goodman. Hallie Goodman is a successful Manhattan event planner who finds herself the recipient of a series of video emails sent from Captain Christopher Ortiz, on the International Space Station, to his then fiance Darcy Hawthorne back home. Darcy is newly engaged to someone else, and is hoping Hallie will plan the events of her upcoming engagement and wedding but Darcy had unknowingly sent Hallie Captain Christopher Ortiz’s video letters to home, videos that found our heroine fantasizing about the Captain, himself. Hoping to correct any mistakes, Hallie notified Christopher’s assistant but all of her messages were returned unopened. Several months earlier Captain Christopher Ortiz returned from the ISS (International Space Station) to a less than welcoming home coming when his fiancé announced she had fallen in love with someone else but an unexpected invite to his ex’s engagement party found Christopher face to face with our story line heroine, a woman who has drawn his attention when she insisted on letting him know about the videos she had received. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Chris and Hallie, and the potential fall-out as people behind the scenes begins to manipulate our story line hero, and Hallie is caught in the middle of her parents’ toxic relationship and divorce.

Hallie Goodman is a bit of a mess; a bumbler whose accidents and antics did not endear her to her latest boyfriend. Dumped for many reasons including her choices in employment and pink hair color, Hallie places all of her focus on a successful career, a career that will push her together with the man with whom she will fall in love. Meanwhile, Hallie’s parents’ toxic relationship and subsequent divorce are pulling our heroine into the middle of their fight, a fight of which is out of control. Chris Ortiz has never been good enough for his successful father, and no matter how hard he has tried, Chris finds himself second place to his father’s business, and the brother he once loved. Meeting Hallie gave Chris a second chance at love but someone else is pulling his strings, and Christopher is caught between the woman he loves, and his inability to say no to everyone else.

The relationship between Chris and Hallie begins by accident as each finds themselves watching from the sidelines, personal videos and vlogs in which they inadvertently begin a virtual dance of attraction and love. Christopher struggles with his venomous relationship with the father he barely knows, and Hallie wants to be taken seriously for herself and her choices in life. The $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Christopher’s ex-fiance Darcy Hawthorne, his father Javier Ortiz, and his mother’s sister Richelle; Hallie’s long suffering parents, her father’s girlfriend Miranda, Hallie’s best friend and co-worker Althea, and their boss Lia Zhang.

A COSMIC KIND OF LOVE is a very slow building story line that does not pick up until about sixty percent of the story line has passed, when our couple finally take their relationship to the next level. The premise is captivating and entertaining; the romance is seductive; the characters are frustrated, struggling, energetic and charismatic.


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