Ellie Cahill is poised to coin the term “sorbet sex” with her charming twist on the age-old ‘friends-with-benefits’ story.
Dating can be fun, but it can leave a nasty taste in your mouth. For Joss, ever since her longtime boyfriend cheated on her, she doesn’t want her last memory of a guy to be that jerk. Enter her college friend, Matt. They come up with a theory: after a bad break-up, a person needs to cleanse the palate with a little sorbet sex. Lovers for a night, but always back to being friends in the morning. The two can handle it because they have a contract: rules they wrote, rules they follow and rules they can sometimes bend. The arrangement works: everyone needs a little sorbet now and again … until it starts to be the only thing you want. And then Joss breaks the one rule they never wrote down: don’t fall in love.
First and foremost I would like to start with
saying that the title of this book does it little justice. Don’t get me wrong,
this is absolutely the story of Joss and Matt but the story itself is far from
serious and that was how I took the title. A more appropriate title would have
been “The Sorbet Pact”. A different take on the “friends with benefits”
concept, When Joss Met Matt is story of more than friendship and sex between
those friends. It is a story about two individuals so completely consumed with
their own issues and demons that they take years to discover what everyone
knows from almost day 1 -- they are soul mates.
Jocelyn “Joss” Kiel and Matt Lehrer meet in
college and while their chemistry instant, it quickly fizzles to a slow burn.
Joss is working to make a long distance relationship work so Matt is instantly
‘friend zoned’ and it isn’t until Joss needs a little ‘sorbet’ to cleanse her
relationship pallette that we truly see their chemistry come alive. Joss and
Matt decide that since they are the best of friends and both have a good head
on their shoulders nothing bad could possibly come from their sorbet pact.
What’s that you ask? Well, it’s simple, the best way to get over a relationship
and the sexual relationship specifically is to cleanse by sleeping with someone
else. Who better than your best friend?
Throughout the book we are privy to the developing
feelings for both characters and feelings that those around them can clearly
see. As always, the two in the relationship are the last to admit the reality.
I loved being part of the friendship and relationship between Joss and Matt.
Beneath all of the sexual tension, they are truly the best of friends and each
other’s biggest fan and supporter. Through relationships, college, careers and
loss of family they are simply there for each other unconditionally. I laughed
and cried with Joss. I wanted Matt to see how amazing she was and how wonderful
they could be together. I wanted Joss to grow a pair and just tell Matt enough
was enough and she loved him. I wanted her to tell him what she tells us …. “He
was my port in a storm, and I couldn’t imagine losing that.” When
they both finally realize their feelings, life and misunderstandings continue
to keep them apart. It isn’t until they both face their biggest fears that they
finally see the light and what has been there for each of them all along.
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