How amazing would it be if our soul mate's name magically appeared on our chest when we turned 18? Would we immediately be so stoked and head out to find our meant to be or would we be more like the main character, Agatha, and fight the fate that has already been decided for us?

In this "YA" novel, Meant to Be, Agatha fights against the destiny that she believes has been decided for her. She wants to travel the world and fall in love on her own, not with the person whoms name just magically name that just magically appeared right above her breast on her 18th birthday. As she struggles through the trials of dating her Not-Meant to Be, life after high school and the future can she truly be satisfy in the choices that she makes?

I truly struggled at the beginning of this story and here is why...

#1 - First of all I am not much for a contemporary novel, but something about the magical name appearing on the chest made me excited for the story. In the beginning we meet Aggie, our main character, who seems very fast to jump to conclusions, judge others and use profanity as she pleases. Throughout the story she becomes more of a whiny teenager and short tempered. Not a big fan of her.

Lish, Agatha's best friend is on board with finding, marrying and having babies with her MTB. While she is more mature and wiser in her decisions, I cannot help but think maybe she is just settling into "the norm" at age 18 instead of being her own person.

Luke Jacobs is a pretty cool, typical guy who gets a bit overboard, mushy and clingy at times. 

Hendrix Cutter seems okay, but we only see him toward the end.

Agatha's mom and uncle are cool too.

#2 - There is a lot of sex. Pretty much detailed and I personally wouldn't want to know that my 14-18 year old child read a story that had numerous profanties including using God's name in vain and detailed sexual descriptions. I truly feel like this may not fall into the YA genre, but perhaps the New Adult? Like it wasn't over the top, but definitely mature scenes.

So to summarize, because I feel like I am all over the place, the synopsis of Meant to Be is a fun concept and a fun, fast read, but the main character was whiny and the story just sort of ended. I don't know if it was meant to have a sequel follow up or if it was just a purposeful, let-you-imagine-your-own-ending. If you are a contemporary romance lover then this is the book for you.

Even though this story was a bit difficult to continue I did stick it out and actually ended up enjoying and laughing toward the end, until the abrupt ending, but either way I feel this title deserves a 3-star rating.