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notsobinaryart's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Child abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Classism, Gaslighting, and Blood
Minor: Torture, Body shaming, Cancer, Sexual harassment, and Infidelity
shector1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Death
noellelovesbooks's review against another edition
4.25
What can I say...I adore anything Alisha Rai writes. 🥰
This book gave us a fast paced second chance romance with mystery, learning from your past, and finding where you fit. 💜
Mira and Naveen had been each other's first matches through the community favorite matchmaker Hema Auntie...after six amazing months together Mira panicked and broke up with Naveen via text. 😳
Now years later, multiple failed matches, and the loss of her aunt...Mina is feeling hopeless and alone. When she goes to hear her aunts will the last person she expected to see was Naveen.
After Mira broke his heart...Naveen dealt with his own share of challenges. The last place he ever expected to see Mira again was at his grandfather's practice...and why was she using a different name?!
Mira and Naveen were so easy to understand, connect to, and cheer for. Two sweet people who've dealt with their fair share of family betrayal, heartache, and pain. Both so caught up in the past that they seemly fail to fully appreciate the connections they still have.
I do wish the last 1/4 of the book was a bit longer and the first half slightly shorter but overall I really enjoyed this story.
Graphic: Sexual content and Gun violence
Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Abandonment
decklededgess's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is like The Spy Who Dumped Me but like a thousand times better. It’s a wild ride from start to finish with such cool plot twists!!!!
Mira and Naveen are so adorable. I loved both of their back stories and the way their history fed into the people they were in the start of the book plus how as they understood each other’s past they began to fall for each other again. Beautifully done.
Naveen’s sobriety was represented with a lot of respect as was Mira’s anxiety and PTSD. A lot of tense and sensitive emotional topics in regards to fraught family history was also done super well but the tone of the book still was relatively light and adventurous.
And of course, can’t forget the smut scenes. Two strategic there’s only one bed moments WITH a cunnilingus scene. This book ate. Literally 😏
Alisha Rai continues to be one of my favourite authors of all time.
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Violence