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Playing with Matches: A Novel Paperback – June 26 2018

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Named a Best Book of Summer by Refinery29, Bustle, and PopSugar

“The best rom-com of the season…overflowing with charm and heart.” —Bustle
“The perfect Summer read—smart, funny, escapist, and bursting with charm.” —PopSugar

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.

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June 26 2018
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1501178482
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“Struggling post college, Sasha takes a job as a matchmaker. So what if she lacks expertise? But when she falls for a client, she’s thrown into it’s complicated limbo. Hannah Orenstein’s debut is a hilarious look at dating – and swiping.”
—Us Weekly

"Funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining."
—MarieClaire.com

"Millennials looking for their perfect beach read this summer need look no further than this delicious romp through the madness of dating in your twenties."
—Jo Piazza, co-author of The Knockoff

"A smart, feel-good rom com . . . . Reading Playing With Matches will give you butterflies of your own."
—Buzzfeed

"The perfect Summer read — smart, funny, escapist, and bursting with charm."
—PopSugar

"The best rom-com of the season . . . . overflowing with charm and heart."
—Bustle

"Playing With Matches is a fun, drama-filled, behind-the-scenes look at the life and love of an elite New York matchmaker—from a former insider who’s lived to tell the burning tale."
—Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy

“It only makes sense for apps like Tinder to be part of romantic comedies . . . . “Playing with Matches” can appeal to people who have yet to swipe right, too.”
—The Boston Globe

"This rom-com is sure to brighten your summer."
—Bustle

"Playing with Matches is the fun, fast-paced summer read you’ll devour regardless of your relationship status."
—Hello Giggles

"Delightful. A fun and relatable rom-com for the Tinder age. Get ready to swipe right!"
—Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars

“Hannah Orenstein is one of this generation’s most essential voices on love. Everything her characters go through will stay with you for your twenties and beyond.”
—Dana Schwartz, author of Choose Your Own Disaster

"If you grew up with Gossip Girl and you obsessed over Devil Wears Prada, this is the book for your life now! It’s smart, fun, sexy, and deeply relateable for every Badass Babe!"
—Ann Shoket, author of The Big Life and former editor-in-chief of Seventeen

“Sasha, a likable heroine with a quick wit and a self-destructive streak, will appeal to fans of Marian Keyes, Helen Fielding, and Sloane Crosley . . . . a realistic yet romantic portrait of modern dating.”
—Booklist

"Love in the age of Tinder is confusing, weird, and often hilarious—at least it is when told by. . . Hannah Orenstein. . . . [A]n addicting story of love lost and found on the dating scene’s latest frontier: the Internet."
—Boston Magazine

"A laugh-out-loud work that singles, marrieds, suburbanites, and urbanites all will clamor for . . . . With an ending twist that will hit readers like a splash of vodka and tonic in the face of their blind date, this novel is one to pack in your beach bag.”
—Library Journal

"Charming, funny, and probably all too relatable if you're facing the modern dating scene.Don't swipe left on this story."
—Elite Daily

"A breezy story that will go perfectly with a margarita on the beach . . . . satisfyingly realistic."
—Jewish Exponent

"An engaging tale . . . . you won't be ready to say goodbye."
—DC Refined

"Addictive and zinging, this novel will have your Tinder matches languishing as you rush to the end."
—Read It Forward

"Engaging . . . . A fun, fast read about dating in the city."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Playing with Matches is pretty much a novel about what you think your life is like . . . . Hate to break it to you, but ghostwriting your best friend’s text to her boyfriend does not qualify you as a relationship expert, and this novel will help you understand why."
—Betches

About the Author

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.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria Books (June 26 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501178482
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501178481
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 272 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.27 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #620,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,003 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books)
- #8,869 in Domestic Life in Women's Fiction
- #13,551 in Family Life

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Hannah Orenstein is the author of Playing with Matches and Love at First Like, as well as the senior dating editor at Elite Daily. Previously, she was a writer and editor at Seventeen.com. She lives in New York.

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Heena

amazing book, one of the best I ever read!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 31, 2018

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amazing book funny, unpredictable and so relatable to any young girl! one of the best I ever read! I encourage anyone to read this book. I was hooked to Hannah's articles in Seventeen, and her book did not disappoint!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 2, 2018

Super cute and funny hetero rom-com. I laughed out loud more than a handful of times and the plot had some unpredictable turns. Fabulous writing and Sasha's voice remained engaging throughout. A perfect choice if you're looking for a lighter read.

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Marie

It was everything, kept me at the edge of my seat all throughout, never a dull moment!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2018

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This book is so powerful. It made me laugh out loud, cry and question my life all in one sitting. It was everything, kept me at the edge of my seat all throughout, never a dull moment! Hannah Orenstain has a fantastic voice that is incredibly unique, refreshing and current. This book is ideal for someone who still holds on to Gossip Girl, Sex and the City and Gilmore Girls. I haven’t finished a book in a day in over 3 years, yet Playing with Matches was so engaging and entertaining that I couldn’t put it down, it’s 4am and a part of me wants to start it again!
100% recommend

Jenny seager

Fun read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 16, 2019

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Nice quick read, very millennial targeted but fun

Germaine Lamchto

Delicious summer read

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on August 17, 2018

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I've been following the author on Twitter for a while (she had created a super funny twitter account on Gossip Girl- that I'm an absolute fan of), so when she published a book I thought I'd give it a try! I read it in a single afternoon by the beach. It was extremely entertaining, and funny. I could not stop reading, I had to finish it right away. I love that the happy end is about women empowerment.
Thanks Hannah, looking forward to your next novel :)

cindy sweeting

Who did she know to get this published?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 13, 2020

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It turns out the author was an editor at 17 magazine. She is 20ish. This is her third book. In the story, her character is 22 working for matchmaking service. She gets the idea to write to Esquire, men's magazine to see if they will give her a column on matchmaking in the magazine. She, the girl who just left college sends them some samples from her college paper and lands the job with Esquire and her own column. Uh-huh. She has a beautiful young boyfriend who is kinda perfect, (she can't beleive she has him) and he's faboo wealthy but is at Goldman Sachs all day and night and so that leaves her sad. boohoo. She works with one of her clients and gets her a date with a really cute guy, but after the date, both agree—no spark. But she has a spark for the guy herself so dumps her faboo boyfriend. All is going swimmingly until the client shows back up to tell her she is pregnant by the guy she had that one date with and didn't like. The client had not told her she did him. The client goes to tell him and now he's over the moon excited, the client and he are getting married and he tells her they're finito, he's gonna be a dad. So that leaves her sad. boohoo. So she heads over to friend's work to tell her he ended it with her. The end.

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Tiffany

I wanted to like it more than I did

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2018

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“But, like, no pressure or anything.”

When I read that inner thought of Sasha’s early on in the book, I knew she was going to be a character I liked. Sasha is a girl who pretty much, kind of, sort of has her life together for the most part, but is also winging it as she goes along on certain aspects (a very relatable trait). She’s 22, so some of what she had going on wasn’t applicable for me at 30. But, that point aside, self discovery can happen at any age; concepts like learning to be comfortable in your own skin and going after your dreams are universal in their reach.

For me, the book really picked up once Jonathan committed his act of “betrayal.” I put quotes because that’s how it’s described in the synopsis and I don’t want to give any spoilers. Up until that point I felt like I was just waiting for the shoe to drop until Jonathan did his douche move.

I’m assuming it’s the character’s age that was the driving force for the way the book ended (the idea that’s she young and learning through tough experiences). For me, the ending felt thrown together. A quick little roller coaster of emotions. I felt like I did when I watched that movie Little Black Book with Brittany Murphy. One of those things where it’s like, wow that’s really messed up, but I guess here’s the silver lining/life lesson? I understand the premise and the reasoning, but the execution of the ending still felt slap shot to me.

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