Kismet, Luke Tredget
Kismet, Luke Tredget
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Kismet
A Novel

Author: Luke Tredget

Narrator: Ellie Heydon

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/07/2018

Synopsis

Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones in this whip-smart debut set in a world where the ultimate matchmaking app has redefined romance.

Twenty-nine-year-old Anna is smart, vivacious, and in the midst of a complete existential meltdown. Sure, from the outside everything in her life seems to be going just fine: She has a decent job, a devoted BFF, and a lovely boyfriend named Pete with whom she is exactly 70% compatible, according to Kismet, the matchmaking app that everyone in Anna's world uses to find love.

Still . . . isn't there supposed to be more to life than this? Should she settle for a secure and predictable existence with Pete, or risk everything for a life of passion and adventure?

With true adulthood (the dreaded thirty) just weeks away, Anna secretly re-joins Kismet, and soon encounters Geoff, a dashing, forty-something journalist with whom she has a shockingly high compatibility score of 81. How can she not at least see where this goes . . . ? A funny and propulsive love story for our over-networked age, Kismet challenges us to take stock of how technology shapes our desires and what it means to "settle."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on October 15, 2018

Meh. All of the characters were pretty annoying, especially the main character. She was such an idiot, and deserved every crap thing that happened to her. Then, the author got lazy and just ended up the book with nothing resolved. The best part was reading about the delicious food her boyfriend made......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on June 26, 2018

There’s something so profoundly reductive and indolent about describing something using a combination of two other semi similar things such as Kismet is a Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones. No, it really isn’t. First off, one probably shouldn’t use two far superior modern cultural pop classics for fe......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on August 29, 2018

This one was...meh. It was almost a DNF for me about halfway through. I am glad I stuck with it, because the second half was much better than the first half (admittedly, however, a very low bar). The main character is pretty terrible, and for about half of the book I couldn't keep Ingrid and Zahra s......more

Goodreads review by Liz on May 22, 2018

Not really into “love stories” to be honest but I liked the idea of Kismet, seems it might not be all about the romance and I was right – this is a journey of discovery for our main protagonist Anna, utterly compelling throughout. I related to Anna on many levels and that made this a bit of a page tu......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 20, 2018

Note: I won a prerelease copy of "Kismet" by Luke Tredget from goodreads.com. I struggled through this book. In my opinion no paragraph should be two full pages long. The premiss was interesting, but I got bogged down by the detailed descriptions of self reflection by the main character. Even though......more

Quotes

"The ennui of the modern-day privileged class has rarely been captured as poignantly as in Luke Tredget's Kismet, a deeply felt reflection of the ways in which technology that was supposed to bring people closer together often only serves to isolate them (and occasionally drive them mad). And as Tredget's complicated, often frustrating, but eminently relatable protagonist shows, the truest human connection occurs when we put our phones away."—DoreeShafrir, author of Startup

"Tredget writes a funny, timely story, with flawed and relatable characters, about how technology affects our desires and what it means to 'settle.' Though he satirizes modern dating and the idea of perfection in a relationship, he writes with an engaging warmth and lightness. Readers will surely enjoy this witty modern love story."—Booklist

"A sharply written and heartfelt story about the connections between us, technological or otherwise. Luke Tredget has created a protagonist so lovable that you won't be able to stop reading until you know her fate."—LeslieCohen, author of This Love Story WillSelf-Destruct

"Sharp, witty and full of tension...an intelligent and highly readable novel."—IrishTimes

"Tredget's trenchant, entertaining debut traces how big data and social media have become an obstacle for healthy relationships...An incisive view of the uncertainties of contemporary adulthood."—Publishers Weekly

"Kismet is compelling for more than its unflinching study of the infiltration of romance by technology and algorithms. At its heart this novel is about what endures in spite of all that; a modern love story of exceptional warmth, intelligence and humanity."—Luke Kennard, author of The Transition

it "[a] perceptive debut novel...[a] fast-moving and witty love story for the digital age."—Shelf-Awareness

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