Spoiler Free Review: Love At First Sighting by Mallory Marlowe

Title: Love At First Sighting

Author: Mallory Marlowe

Pub. Date: August 12th 2025

Genre: Paranormal/Contemporary Romance

Format: DRC

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 352

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El Martin is rapidly growing her social media platform while living in a Los Angeles influencer house as a Lifestyle vlogger. In the middle of a culture obsessed with clicks and likes, El finds herself growing disenamoured with her career and the toxicity that comes with it. While trying to fulfill her commitment to one of her Fitness sponsorships, El ends up inadvertently capturing a flying object while recording a video. Against her better judgement and the unwritten rule of the influencer to not post anything unrelated to your feed’s specialty, El decides to follow her excitement and post it to her followers. The mass unfollowing begins but El tries to not focus on the loss too much and instead on the fact that she’s found the spark she’s been missing. What she doesn’t expect is to capture the attention of the Private Intelligence Sector who has assigned Agent Carter Brody to her case.

Agent Carter is working for PSI and like El, he too is not quite feeling it in his career of choice. He aspires to follow in his father’s footsteps working on finding and hiding extraterrestrials. After watching El’s viral video of an unidentified flying object, Carter feels this might be the opportunity he’s been waiting for. The unidentified object looks a lot like what he saw as a child right before tragedy struck his family. Living with more questions than answers, the mystery that has plagued him may now get solved.

After the absolute enjoyment I experienced with Mallory Marlowe’s first book Love and Other Conspiracies, I was stoked for Love At First Sighting. Following the paranormal vibes of its predecessor, our MC’s are catching sightings of UFO objects in the sky. This time however, the romance falls heavy on the insta lovey which led to less character depth and development. I had such a hard time connecting with the characters and their romance but figured I’d push through in hopes that the paranormal aspects would deliver. They admittedly fell short as well, instead we get some action scenes at the end but no real UFO sightings/experiences to make this one as fun as the first book and its legend of BigFoot. What I liked? El’s willingness to follow her excitement regardless of the outcome/fall out. Carter’s random photo ops without filters/touch-ups lead to her posting these raw unedited photos of herself. El’s comfort level with her social media image changed towards a more carefree live in the moment approach. I’m hoping the next Mallory Marlowe book returns to the fun strangeness that was Love and Other Conspiracies, maybe even a hate-to-love trope next time. Either way i will definitely be picking up the next one 😉

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