A review by loveinpanels
Two Houses by Suleena Bibra

3.0

For an enemies-to-lovers plot to be successful for me, I need the characters to be at odds, but not cruel. When one character is more unkind than the other, the relationship feels unbalanced and it's hard to believe in the HEA. In Two Houses, we have a single POV only, Priya. She's incredibly driven and faces a lot of bias in her work as an art seller, but she's also kind of immature. Some of the jokes in the book were funny, but there are a lot and they ended up coming off as juvenile half the time. Priya's best friend/coworker/assistant calls her actions "shenanigans" and that's exactly what they are. Sometimes, however, they're cruel and I couldn't get past the combination of meanness and immaturity. Sneaking your competition a laxative during a business event? That's not okay. Stealing clients from each other is one thing, but doing things like that in order to take business is not okay. I wonder if I would have felt differently if I had the male MC's POV, but we're in Priya's head and she thinks all of this is normal and fun.
This book will likely appeal to people who want shenanigans, art talk and business rivalry.