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The Dating Plan
by Sara Desai
The Dating Plan is the second novel by author of The Marriage Game, Sara Desai, while I did not read The Marriage Game I definite will now. While the two stories are connected to one another as the main character of The Dating Plan, Daisy Patel, is the cousin and best friend of the female lead of The Marriage Game, Layla. So, if you want to see more of that world, definitely check out The Dating Plan, but even if you haven’t this is a great introduction to Sara Desai’s writing.
Daisy is a successful software engineer, but in her family that doesn’t matter because she is still single and doesn’t want to change that. The Patel family refuses to take her wanting to be single as a choice so they have taken it upon themselves to matchmake. Whether it’s ambushing her with friends’ single sons or trolling matchmaking websites they are determined to find a nice man for Daisy to marry, and soon. But Daisy doesn’t want anything to do with marriage or her family’s many attempts at match making.
Liam Murphy had a rough childhood, and his two solaces growing up were his grandfather’s distillery that he visited in the summer and hiding out at his best friend Sanjay Patel’s house, even if that meant having to deal with Sanjay’s annoying little sister, Daisy, and her crush on him. When something happened the night Liam was supposed to take Daisy to her senior prom and he stands her up, he leaves San Francisco for 9 years. Liam is back in San Francisco as a successful venture capitalist for his grandfather’s funeral, and he finds out that he was left the family distillery, skipping over his older brother as tradition mandated. As happy as Liam is to be able to save the family business from his brother wanting to sell it, there is a BIG catch, he has to be married by his next birthday, in two months, and he has to stay married for a year for him to be able to keep the business.
When Liam and Daisy ran into one another by chance at a work event, Daisy doesn’t hide how much she hates him for the what he did all those years ago. Liam hates that Daisy hates him, but he soon sees a benefit to Daisy’s feelings of hatred towards him, she can marry him without feelings getting in the way. At this proposal Daisy initially thinks that Liam has gone crazy, until he lays out the benefits, her family will stop trying to matchmake, and he’ll help the company she works for find funding to stay open. As their fake engagement goes on the feelings that they both had when they were young begin to resurface. Will this fake engagement turn into a real relationship and marriage?
Daisy is a successful software engineer, but in her family that doesn’t matter because she is still single and doesn’t want to change that. The Patel family refuses to take her wanting to be single as a choice so they have taken it upon themselves to matchmake. Whether it’s ambushing her with friends’ single sons or trolling matchmaking websites they are determined to find a nice man for Daisy to marry, and soon. But Daisy doesn’t want anything to do with marriage or her family’s many attempts at match making.
Liam Murphy had a rough childhood, and his two solaces growing up were his grandfather’s distillery that he visited in the summer and hiding out at his best friend Sanjay Patel’s house, even if that meant having to deal with Sanjay’s annoying little sister, Daisy, and her crush on him. When something happened the night Liam was supposed to take Daisy to her senior prom and he stands her up, he leaves San Francisco for 9 years. Liam is back in San Francisco as a successful venture capitalist for his grandfather’s funeral, and he finds out that he was left the family distillery, skipping over his older brother as tradition mandated. As happy as Liam is to be able to save the family business from his brother wanting to sell it, there is a BIG catch, he has to be married by his next birthday, in two months, and he has to stay married for a year for him to be able to keep the business.
When Liam and Daisy ran into one another by chance at a work event, Daisy doesn’t hide how much she hates him for the what he did all those years ago. Liam hates that Daisy hates him, but he soon sees a benefit to Daisy’s feelings of hatred towards him, she can marry him without feelings getting in the way. At this proposal Daisy initially thinks that Liam has gone crazy, until he lays out the benefits, her family will stop trying to matchmake, and he’ll help the company she works for find funding to stay open. As their fake engagement goes on the feelings that they both had when they were young begin to resurface. Will this fake engagement turn into a real relationship and marriage?