em_reads_books 's review for:

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

3.0

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Loved the humor and the glimpses into side characters' perspectives; definitely some laugh out loud moments and incisive little social observations. My library stuck a romance sticker on this but I would call it more of a comedy of manners - the love stories seem more like devices to move the characters into absurd situations than fleshed out romances in themselves. Our main character, Tina, was great as a window into everything going on around her, but she was pretty much the least interesting of the cast of characters. She's flawed in relatable ways and her reluctant-outsider perspective was excellent, but it just wasn't that fun to be in her head for so long and I never especially cared about her romantic misadventures. When her TV show idea finally comes together, I instantly thought how much more I'd love to see the show version of these events, the one where it's all Nono and Bubbles and Rajesh, and Tina's perspective is hidden away behind the camera.