OK, I am loving it so far!

In these 4 chapters, Farah Heron sets up vivid characters, sibling conflict, a hot neighbor, delivers some funny lines, and introduces a realist MC who calls it like she sees it. I get Reena "and how she sees the world in a way I don't often bump into in romance. Of course, I'd want to be friends with her! I'm surprising myself by saying that... it's not a barometer I usually use for how much I enjoy a story.

I suspect this one is going to take a different tack than some of the arranged marriage romances we've seen over the last few years. As an East Asian (American) reader, I can't comment on the representation, but I *can* say the book already spurred me to Google more about Gujarati Indians in East Africa.

Did I already say, I need the rest now?! Oh, ok. Like I said.