The Shaadi Set-Up
Books | Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
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Lillie Vale
In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Emily Henry, and Tessa Bailey, an Indian American woman signs herself and her boyfriend up for a matchmaking site to prove they're a perfect match, only to be paired with her ex instead.High school sweethearts Rita Chitniss and Milan Rao were the golden couple, until the day he broke her heart. Now, six years later, Rita has turned her passion for furniture restoration into a career and has an almost-perfect boyfriend, Neil. The last thing she needs is for Milan to re-enter her life, but that's exactly what happens when her mother, an unfailing believer in second chances, sets them up. Milan is just as charming, cocky, and confident as he was back in school. Only this time, he actually needs her business expertise, not her heart, to flip a hard-to-sell house for his realty agency. While Rita begrudgingly agrees to help, she's not taking any risks. To prove she's definitely over him, she signs herself and Neil up on MyShaadi.com, a Desi matchmaking site famous for its success stories and trustworthy enough to convince everyone that she and Neil are the new and improved couple. Instead, she's shocked when MyShaadi's perfect match for her isn't Neil...it's Milan. Ignoring the website and her mother is one thing, but ignoring Milan proves much more difficult, especially when she promises to help him renovate the beach house of her dreams. And as the two of them dive deeper into work—and their pasts—Rita begins to wonder if maybe her match wasn't so wrong after all....
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Author
Lillie Vale
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2021-09-07
ISBN
059332871X 9780593328712
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"Enjoyable read "
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Zariah Grant
"3/5 ⭐️ This one was interesting. I liked the story but I feel like it was slightly different than the advertised premise of the book. It was definitely more of a slow burn than I expected that didn’t mind taking it’s time to focus on the romantic relationship. The romance was a forced proximity, second chance romance, with bits of a love triangle and small town/workplace romance vibes. Although the story kept me engaged, I wish it had spent more time on the romantic relationship because I wanted to see more of them navigating their new relationship together, not just focusing on the past."
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Emma Tang