Meet Me on Love Street had all the ingredients for a heartfelt, layered read—small-town charm, a protagonist facing big life changes, and a laundry list of timely topics. Unfortunately, it felt like trying to taste a gourmet meal where every dish was served at once: a lot on the plate, but not enough time to savor any Meet Me on Love Street had all the ingredients for a heartfelt, layered read—small-town charm, a protagonist facing big life changes, and a laundry list of timely topics. Unfortunately, it felt like trying to taste a gourmet meal where every dish was served at once: a lot on the plate, but not enough time to savor any of it.

It’s not that the book is without charm—there are moments of warmth and small-town quirks that shine through. But with fewer issues and more space to truly explore them, Meet Me on Love Street could have been a more compelling, resonant read. As it stands, it’s a pleasant enough story, but for me, it didn’t quite leave the lasting impression I’d hoped for.of it.

Ultimately this was a cute read! It took me a while to get through it bc I started then stopped for some time. I enjoyed the way this tackled the very real issue of gentrification but still made it feel like a light, cutesy romance. Our FMC is such a hopeless romantic and I love that way she seemed to absolutely be herself and stay true to who she was! I loved her optimism and her personality. The supporting characters were great as well

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This YA novel about a teen who is trying to fight the gentrification that is threatening the street she lives on, was wonderful. I really LOVED the main character, but all of the other characters in the book were wonderful as well!

She believes in love. He doesn’t believe the hype. But this summer, everything’s about to change—starting with Love Street.

Sana Merali lives for romance. With her vintage wardrobe, part-time job at a quirky secondhand shop, and a heart that practically speaks in rom-com quotes, she’s a walking meet-cute waiting to happen. But when her beloved neighborhood—Love Street—is threatened by gentrification, Sana sets her sights on something even bigger than falling in love: saving her home.

Her grand plan? Host a summer festival to remind the city why Love Street is worth preserving.

The catch? She has to work with Miles Desai—grumpy, analytical, and annoyingly skeptical about all things romance. When Sana learns just how anti-love Miles really is, she launches her own side mission: operation Matchmake Miles. If she can prove that even the world’s biggest cynic can fall head over heels, surely Love Street has a chance too.

But as sparks begin to fly in unexpected directions, Sana is forced to ask herself: is she planning the perfect love story… or accidentally starring in one?

Full of heart, hijinks, and hope, this is a feel-good summer romance for anyone who still believes in happily ever afters—even if they come with a few detours.

Thank you to Simon Teen for the advance reader copy. These opinions are my own.

This was such a sweet summer romance. Sana and Miles have a lot in common, but she mostly sees their different approaches to love. She's all in and wants to create a neighborhood festival highlighting love on love street, while he's much more jaded. This was great fun, while also tackling tougher topics of gentrification. The secondary characters were just as great at the primary characters, and I appreciated the queer representation. The characters all seemed quite appropriate to their ages. And this put me in the mood to attend as many street fairs as I can this summer.

oh my gosh! this was a super cute ya romance! you wouldn’t want to skip this one!

here’s why:

✨ sana merali is a certified hopeless romantic
✨ she lives and works on a street actually named Love Street and dreams of her very own perfect love story
✨ miles desai is grumpy and infuriatingly logical
✨ he’s anti-romance, an opposite of sana
✨ expect disastrous matchmaking & subtle, sweet moments
✨ it’s about family, community, and of course, falling love!
✨ set in TO, Canada (for some reason, books i’ve been reading lately is set in Canada, lol 😂)

thank you to @simonteen for the copy!

Despite her parents’ divorce, and despite never having been in love herself, Sana Merali is an unapologetic “hopeless romantic.” She even lives on Love Street, a charming neighborhood full of mom-and-pop stores, where the shop owners feel like family. So when she sees the businesses on her street take an economic hit due to encroaching chain stores, the plan Sana comes up with to save her neighborhood is all about bringing the love to Love Street. One problem? Newcomer Miles Desai, who’s on the planning committee, and is very much anti-romance. Sana determines that she will not only win him over to her plans, she will also change his stance on love by setting him up on a series of blind dates. Unfortunately, when her matchmaking plans start to work too well, Sana realizes that her own happily-ever-after might be in danger. Meet Me on Love Street leans hard into a lot of tropes, but teen fans of grumpy-sunshine and “working together to save the town” romances will find that Sana’s authentic voice and her lovable found family keep the story fresh and fun.

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5! Thank you @netgalley and @farahheronauthor for this ARC in trade for my honest review!!

This book follows Sana as her favorite place in the world is going through struggles and trying to stay afloat. Sana then meets Miles at the local café and they don’t exactly hit it off. But more unfolds as the story continues!

For this book, I really felt I had to push through the beginning but the ending was amazing!! Miles is the perfect, hot, book boyfriend I was waiting to read about! Sana kind of made me get a little bit of 2nd hand embarrassment, but I love how she was a consistent character and always stayed true to her personality! Overall this was a good read on vacation!!

Meet Me on Love Street is the latest young adult novel by Farah Heron. This is a very cute and heartwarming story about young love, family, neighborhood appreciation, and just a good-old coming of age story. When Sana's neighborhood is faced with being overrun with condos and turned into something new, she takes it into her hands to help make a love festival to help celebrate Love Street, where she lives. She loves the idea of love, although she hasn't found herself in love before, and what better place to show what love means than a street with love in its name. On the opposite side of everything helping her is Miles Desai, who is new to helping out a bookseller in the area and turns down every idea Sana has. As they begin to work together they start to form crushes on each other and learn what love is and how it can help to change their neighborhood for the better.

I've always enjoyed Heron's writing. She has a light way of handling heavier topics for audiences of all ages to enjoy. While as an adult I felt annoyed at the naivete of Sana, I needed to remind myself she is a teenage girl and I can remember having similar feelings and viewpoints at that age. I've read a few adult novels by Heron, but this was my first young adult novel by her. If you enjoy her young adult novels, I highly recommend checking out her adult romances as well. She is an auto-read author for me.

Thank you to Simon Teen and Netgalley for a copy in exchange for review consideration.

Sana lives on Love Street full of fun neighborhood shops run by her favorite people in this YA romance. But there are concerns that Love Street isn’t sustaining business anymore with chain stores and gentrification. So Sana and Miles team up to plan a festival to help save their community.

Why you should read it:
🩷 Sana is sunshine and Miles is the grump
🩷 representation
🩷 Sana loves romance and has an amazing vintage wardrobe
🩷 community coming together like family

If you’re not a YA fan, read Accidentally Engaged also by Farah Heron. So good!

Thank you to the tagged publisher and NetGalley for a review copy.

i loved this one and hope others love too! great character development and plot. hoping others take away the message of the effect of gentrification

NetGalley ARC
I <3 Miss Heron's books! Unfortunately, this was not for my age group, which is why I gave it an average rating. If I was in middle/high school, I would have adored this book! I also studied urban planning, so this book really hit close to home. However, I am also not a fan of brown female main characters with the same personality as Devi from 'Never Have I Ever'- the act on impulse, just do and say what I feel in the moment- character so I did almost DNF but getting to meet Myles the Planner saved it for me. Can't wait for the next Farah Heron book (for my age group lol)!

DNF.

Sana didn’t feel like a hopeless romantic, even though she was portrayed to be… I couldn’t get into this one..

This was such a cute and heartfelt YA romance set in a small Toronto neighborhood that had tons of Emma and Pride and Prejudice vibes and sees two South Asian Canadian teens getting off to a bad start but having to work together to plan a summer festival in an attempt to save the businesses on their beloved Love Street. Full of opposites attract, forced proximity goodness, matchmatching shenanigans, parental drama, lots of great found family and a cast of diverse, queer characters. I really loved all the nods to the different parts of Toronto, the spotlight on city planning and teen activism plus all the Canadian romance book Easter eggs (I saw that Accidentally engaged nod Farah!). Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digtial copy in exchange for my honest review! This is perfect for fans of authors like Jenny Han and Jackie Khalilieh.

Super cute, so fun, welcome to love street where everything maybe falling apart but is it really, can things be changed around to help the people and business on love street oh and who knows will sana find love? From beginning to end this book had me smiling, going oh no, but then right back to yes we’ve got this. It was such a fun read and super easy and fast to get through there were a few added words on a few pages through out the book. But the book as a whole was amazing and I cannot wait to get the book on my physical shelf as a trophy will be looking for more books by this author to enjoy later on.

This was so goddamn cute. I was loving these two and the was my jaw dropped at the end. I felt for her so much and I cried so much.

Ok, I really liked this one. I think we need to be reading it from the viewpoint of a teenager. My thirteen year old read this one, and raved about it. She said that it reminded her of the Broadway musical In The Heights.

I love that this gave us diversity and cultural exposure that isn't typical. The characters were relatable as teenagers growing up in a neighborhood like this one.

The love story was exactly what we needed from a YA book. It's a grumpy sunshine trope - but light.

I would recommend to any teen who is looking to get a foot in the door with romance and with a more grown up setting, without being too grown.

Thank you so much Simon Teen for the gifted e-ARC! 💘

This was just the cutest read! If you love romance books, this is for you. At its core, this is a beautiful story about love: not only romantic love, but all kinds of love. Meet Me On Love Street was so sweet and romantic in many different ways, but also funny! The balance between the main romantic relationship, other relationships, and the plot was so good and done perfectly. I loved both of our main characters, Miles and Sana, & their story.
Highly recommend this one!!

I was super excited for this one because the blurb made it sound like the perfect epitome of a rom-com story. Don't get me wrong, it definitely had all of the elements to create the perfect rom-com plot, but it was lacking in creativity. It almost was just taking every single rom-com movie trope and throwing it into one big Hallmark movie mistake. Sometimes these types of books can be really good if done correctly. I ultimately ended up DNF-ing this book at about 40%. There honestly was not enough to keep me intrigued as a reader, which is super unfortunate. I could not vibe with the FMC or MMC which is one of the main reasons I couldn't keep pushing myself to continue reading. I was hoping for a Gilmore Girls feel, but even the side characters were lacking that *spark*. This book had great potential, but it wasn't for me, which is totally okay.

3 stars (5.43)
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and am voluntarily posting a review. All opinions are my own.
Meet Me on Love Street is Farah Heron’s latest YA offering, and I unfortunately found it a bit of a mixed bag. I liked the concepts it presented, but in execution, I felt a lot was rather lacking.
Sana is a decent protagonist. I do like the concept of her unrepentant belief in love as a hopeless romantic, even though her parents split up when she was young. And exploring the complex dynamics of their blended family was fun, from her close relationship with her mom to her challenges with her dad and adjusting to his new family. I particularly liked seeing her begin to bond with her stepsiser, Sarina.
The romance is pretty cute. The attempt to beat the Pride and Prejudice comparisons into the ground was a bit annoying; they’re literally just another set of “just ok” enemies-to-lovers.” I did somewhat enjoy their evolving dynamic, with affection growing as they got to know each other, but I could do without the forced attempt to push that they’re literally like one of the most iconic romance couples.
I did like the aspects of community and banding together to fight gentrification as a goal to bring these two opposites together. However, while there was some great discussion about it early on in the book, I feel like this plot thread became weaker as the book went on. And pacing wise, the book definitely lagged, and my investment flagged, especially quite a bit in the second half.
While I found this rather underwhelming, there are others who obviously enjoyed it and didn’t have the same issues. Therefore, I’d recommend it to readers who are interested in a desi enemies-to-lovers romance that also touches on a variety of social issues, like gentrification, divorce, and difficult family relationships.