Playing with Matches, Hannah Orenstein
Playing with Matches, Hannah Orenstein
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Playing with Matches

Author: Hannah Orenstein

Narrator: Jennifer O'Donnell

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/26/2018


Synopsis

In the tradition of Good in Bed and The Assistants comes a funny and smart comedy about a young matchmaker balancing her messy personal life and the demands of her eccentric clients. Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss. Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. She sets up a TV exec who wanted kids five years ago, a forty-year-old baseball-loving virgin, and a consultant with a rigorous five-page checklist for her ideal match. Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when Jonathan betrays her, she spirals out of control-and right into the arms of a writer with a charming Southern drawl, who she had previously set up with one of her clients. He's strictly off-limits, but with her relationship on the rocks, all bets are off. Fresh, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny, Playing with Matches is the addictive story about dating in today's swipe-heavy society, and a young woman trying to find her own place in the world.

About Hannah Orenstein

Hannah Orenstein is the author of Playing with Matches, Love at First Like, and Head Over Heels, and is the deputy editor of dating at Elite Daily. Previously, she was a writer and editor at Seventeen.com. She lives in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

Me for the first half of this book: Fun!!! Pink cover!!! Fun!!! Yay matchmaking!!! Me for the second half of this book: We have found the vessel of the apocalypse on this planet. All of human suffering is encapsulated within these pages. The container for the cause of all negativity in this world exi......more

Mini review: Minor spoilers ahead! DNF GR Ultimate Summer Reading Challenge: Let's Get It On. When I had heard about this book through Twitter I was excited! I haven't read a book about matchmaking and the synopsis sounded hilarious. Unfortunately it wasn't for me. The beginning was good! I was invested......more

Oof.. this was bad. 🙁 Playing with Matches, by Hannah Orenstein left alot to be desired. This contemporary romance follows the life of newly graduated, Sasha Goldberg. Sasha is twenty-two and madly in love with her Finance boyfriend, Jonathan. When her dream career of writing for People magazine fal......more

Goodreads review by Nikki

I was looking for a quick read to breeze through the weekend, and Playing with Matches did not disappoint. Fun and fresh, it makes a perfect vacation read; or, if you need something light to break up those ugly cry drama reads – well then, why not pick up this one? It is available for purchase on Tu......more