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The Universe Provides a Fake Boyfriend: How to Fall in Love When It’s Most Inconvenient

The Universe Provides a Fake Boyfriend: How to Fall in Love When It’s Most Inconvenient

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Hello, readers! I’m back with another book review. Thank you to those of you who have started receiving updates for my posts, it means a lot! Please follow for more fun!

Anyways, let’s get to today’s book recommendation: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert.

Hibbert has knocked it out of the park on this one, yet again. I’ve made it my mission to finish the entire Brown Sisters series and tell you all about them on this blog.

This is the story of Dani Brown, an aggressively driven PhD student coming up on the event that will make or break her career. Dani is whip-smart, drop-dead sexy, and entirely opposed to romantic commitment. Men and women have flown in and out of her orbit like satellites, and nothing ever sticks. And that’s how Dani (a shameless heartbreaker) likes it.

Dani asks the universe to provide her with her next fuck buddy, and to her delight, it takes the form of an enormous, sensitive, and delectable ex rugby player– Zafir Ansari.

However, what’s the catch to delighting in this delicious gift from the universe?

She’s falling for him.

Yes, Dani Brown’s commitment to staying uncommitted is tested when Zafir asks her to be his fake girlfriend after a pic of Zafir holding Dani after saving her from a broken elevator goes completely viral. #DrRugBae begins to circulation online and people can’t get enough of them. He asks for her help in the hopes that the attention they’re getting will help TackleIt, his rugby nonprofit for young men.

This book is so cute. Zafir is actually one of my all-time favorite male leads in a romance novel. He’s a lover of romance books (same), fiercely protective, and you can’t help but cheer him on as he forges a new path for himself after the tragic death of his father and brother. With Dani’s love and fantastic breasts (her words, not mine) he just might be able to move on.

I highly recommend this one, I’ll be reading and reviewing the last book in the series, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, as soon as I can.

You can get a copy of Take a Hint, Dani Brown here or you can make your daily trip down to your local library. (What do you mean, you don’t go daily? What’s the matter with you? Get down there now!)

Until next time! Thanks for reading.

Can I Be a Teenager Again?

Can I Be a Teenager Again?

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This book was everything I needed to end my YA novel drought. Its a romance wrapped up in a story of independence and self exploration.

The story goes like this: Rishi and Dimple, two recent high school graduates from traditional Indian families, meet each other at a six week camp for web development. Dimple is going there to meet her coding idol, while Rishi is there to bag a wife and honor his parent’s wishes for him to have an arranged marriage.

I love stories of arranged marriages because that almost always guarantees that the marriage will become anything but arranged when the characters fall in love.

Few notes about this book:

  • A super fast, super light read
  • It will have you feeling rage both for the characters and at the characters
  • Will leave you feeling fuzzy because of how sweet the romance is, if you’re the kind of person that wants to feel a certain way when you read a book.

Overall, this book was excellent. I would give it a rating but I don’t do that– I make a point to only review books I adored, so there’s no point in rating it because its by default incredible to me, and with that said, I hope they’re incredible for you too! 🙂

See you next time!

You can get a copy of When Dimple Met Rishi here, or you can say hi to your local librarian!

Being On the Outside While Being on the Inside

Being On the Outside While Being on the Inside

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Hello, readers! I wish I had a better name to call you all…

Anyways, I recently finished this whirlwind of a novel and I want to tell you about it!

The Startup Wife centers around a brilliant web designer, Asha. Asha goes into business with her new age husband Cyrus and Cyrus’ lifelong friend, Jules.

The three of them go from having hopeful discussions about what it would be like to offer our tech laden society an alternative to religion to potentially disrupting everything we think we know about community and faith.

In their mission to do so, they end up making a huge impact– but is that a good thing? The reader questions if the outcome of their dive into Silicon Valley is good for Asha, the brains of the operation, and Cyrus, the inspiration for and hopeful answer to the question: What is faith?

The Startup Wife does an excellent job of playing out the needling dread that comes with being gaslighted and shining a light on what its like to be a woman of color in tech, amongst a sea of white faces.

I encourage you to take a look at this shockingly relatable novel (Tahmima Anam does a wonderful job of employing realistic, casual humor throughout the book, which brings a lightness to some of its darker parts).

You can grab a digital copy here or you can chat up your local librarian.

See you next read!