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Marriage & Masti
by Nisha Sharma
I will start with admitting I didn't know this was the third book in a series, and therefore I went in with no preconceptions about the characters nor the setting as people who read the first two books may have (I now have the others on my TBR and will be reading them too!) I give it a 3.75 stars, rounded up to 4.
Although I felt the set-up for the book was a little shakey - they eloped in a religious ceremony by accident, but it doesn't appear that that information ever got leaked in any way which is how I had assumed they would have been roped into keeping up the "fake" marriage to avoid another public scandal for Deepak's CEO campaign - I deeply loved this retelling of Twelfth Night.
Veera echoed a lot of the struggles we face as we get older - being the odd one out of a friend group who seems to be growing in different directions, facing the hurdle of being the "emotional" or "soft" child in a family that values strength, and coping with loss and change when your life path is thrown off course. Deepak, although a nepo baby, is hard working and deeply loved by his parents which we don't often get for MMCs unless he is a fatally flawed "mama's boy," which was comforting to see. I appreciated, too, that Deepak's family loved and welcomed Veera into their family instead of icing her out for eloping.
The spice in the book honestly shocked me, but in the best way. I don't know why I wasn't expecting a$$ slapping and face f*cking, probably because up until they started being intimate there was zero indication that Deepak was freaky, but I enjoyed it and I love to see an author have no fear in making sex more exciting!
I struggled with Sana's motivations in the end of the book; I had assumed Olivia's influence would have been what spurred her behavior, weakening her resolve with her no-contact father and stoking her hate for Deepak; but Olivia is actually against Sana's behavior. I wish there was some sort of evidence (although fabricated) that Sana had seen to at least back up the fact that she believed her dad who she had allegedly hated the entire time. The resolution came as quickly as the problem arose, which I think was fitting for a snap-judgement emotional decision, and I was satisfied with how they came to the end of it.
Although I felt the set-up for the book was a little shakey - they eloped in a religious ceremony by accident, but it doesn't appear that that information ever got leaked in any way which is how I had assumed they would have been roped into keeping up the "fake" marriage to avoid another public scandal for Deepak's CEO campaign - I deeply loved this retelling of Twelfth Night.
Veera echoed a lot of the struggles we face as we get older - being the odd one out of a friend group who seems to be growing in different directions, facing the hurdle of being the "emotional" or "soft" child in a family that values strength, and coping with loss and change when your life path is thrown off course. Deepak, although a nepo baby, is hard working and deeply loved by his parents which we don't often get for MMCs unless he is a fatally flawed "mama's boy," which was comforting to see. I appreciated, too, that Deepak's family loved and welcomed Veera into their family instead of icing her out for eloping.
The spice in the book honestly shocked me, but in the best way. I don't know why I wasn't expecting a$$ slapping and face f*cking, probably because up until they started being intimate there was zero indication that Deepak was freaky, but I enjoyed it and I love to see an author have no fear in making sex more exciting!
I struggled with Sana's motivations in the end of the book; I had assumed Olivia's influence would have been what spurred her behavior, weakening her resolve with her no-contact father and stoking her hate for Deepak; but Olivia is actually against Sana's behavior. I wish there was some sort of evidence (although fabricated) that Sana had seen to at least back up the fact that she believed her dad who she had allegedly hated the entire time. The resolution came as quickly as the problem arose, which I think was fitting for a snap-judgement emotional decision, and I was satisfied with how they came to the end of it.