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🌟🌟🌟 BOOK REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟
Title: The Love Match
Author: Priyanka Taslim
Pages:400
My Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
My Thoughts:
This book was a delight to read! This lovely YA Romance is a mixture of Bollywood with some Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice!
Zahra just graduated high school with dreams of being a writer. Instead of starting college like her friends, she is stuck working at Chai Ho to help out her family make ends meet since her father had passed away years prior. Her mother sets out to find her a husband to ensure that her (and her family) are financially stable so that she can pursue those dreams. While at a wedding, her mom teams up with a wealthy Bangladeshi mom who seeks a wife for her son, Harun. Even though they do not seem to care for each other, the engagement/wedding planning begins! Meanwhile, Zahra falls for the new employee at the tea shop, Nayim. It is love at first sight!
This love triangle is far from predictable! Most of the time, I was not sure who I was rooting for; they were both great guys! They both had their pros when it came to Zahra - Harun gets Zahra out doing fun things again (she was able to act like a teenager for a bit) while Nayim helps to get her writing again (something she hadn’t done since her father’s death). I did have a sneaky suspicion that one of them was not as he seemed. Zahra herself was such a great character! So smart, sassy and is willing to do whatever she had to for her family. All in all, I was really happy with who Zahra chooses and I did feel a little for the one she doesn’t.
I don’t remember ever reading a book with Bangladeshi characters. I feel like I also learned about the culture all while enjoying this super cute rom-com! What a bonus!!!
Thank you to NetGalley, Saleem Reads/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing & Priyanka Taslim for the Advanced Readers Copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!