I’m a sucker for letters in a story especially a romance, so when I saw this book I was like sign me up! what I didn’t expect was not to enjoy this book as much as I hoped to.

This was a quick and easy read but while that is a perk the romance being quickly developed was not it for me. I need some good character development beforehand and this just felt so insta. I also would not say this is YA but that seems to be the norm nowadays with YA books and spicy scenes.
Also the Nepo babies talk was out of there iykyk.

Overall I was intrigued with the plot but was ultimately let down.

Thanks NetGalley for this arc!

I didn't end up loving this book (I do enjoy a lot of the author's books). I didn't really think the characters were very nice... I am more of a cinnamon roll hero lover and Ravi was definitely not one. Gorgeous cover - one of my favorites!

Nisha Sharma has a special talent for drawing you in to her stories immediately, and once I started The Letters We Keep I could hardly put it down. Jessie and Ravi's chemistry is instant and their growing friendship then romance felt so real as the two of them try to solve the mystery of the love between to past students of their university. Rumors haunt the library and Jessie and Ravi work together (despite them butting heads from the moment the meet) to work through the what is story and what the truth is all while find the parallels between their story and the old romance. This is beautifully written and the story is fantastic!

I usually love Nisha’s books but this one hit the mark for me. Maybe because I’m 30 and this book is a bit immature and about younger characters so maybe I’m just not the target audience.

1st book I’ve read by this author and I loved every second! I was not expecting the ending with the professor!! I loved that the letters were part of the book for us to read. This was definitely an HEA for all 4 people! Ahhhh I loved

Thank you to NetGalley and Skyscape for the galley of this book!

I found The Letters We Keep to be an endearing novel that centers around two South-Asian students trying to carve out their path in college while feeling the heavy weight of familial expectations on their shoulders. I loved the mystery mixed in with the romance that made this book nearly impossible to put down. 5 stars!

This book was a fast read for me. Two college students who find lost letters from a young couple experiencing forbidden love in the 1970s. They try to find out the truth about the couple's ending. Ravi was a likable main character who tries to protect Jesse and ends up falling in love with her. Jesse was young and was trying to find her way in college while falling for Ravi. In the end, the book was good but the characters could have been developed a bit more. Based on some of the content, I can not recommend purchasing it for our library. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It took me some time but I finally managed to finish this story. This is not a story to be read in one sitting, which is my typical reading experience. This story is meant for you to take in and sit in the emotions so that you can better understand the characters and their motivations. It can be kind of cheesy at times, but they are college students so that’s understandable. I wish the mystery was more of the plot than the romance but that’s also the point because the mystery is the romance. I love how history repeats itself through these students. Even living in different times, Jessie and Ravi connected to Divya and Christian because they understood their struggles.

The letters we keep by Nisha Sharma - review

2.75⭐️
1.5🌶️ (one more detailed scene)

To start, I first want to thank Netgalley and Skyscape for the e-arc in return for a honest review 🥰💕

This is the story of Jessie and Ravi. Jessie is a freshman and aspiring engineer at Heartfelt college. Ravi on the other hand is a privileged billionaires nepo baby. One day Jessie is studying in the library in a cubicle that happens to be the one Ravi normally occupies. At a party some of Ravi’s friends challenge Jessie, and prank her by locking her up in the campus’ Davidson tower. There Jessie finds these letters of two previous students, that may or may not be connected to the myth of the two ill-fated lovers who disappeared in a fire.
These letters draw Jessie and Ravi together into finding out the mysterie behind them. Who wrote them and is the myth real? Who is this mysterious Jaan?

This was such an enjoyable read. I really liked that you got these little snippets of the letters between the chapters.

I also liked the parallels that were draw between the myth and Jessie and Ravi. Since both were romances that seem to be kind of taboo and not the way it was “supposed” to be.
Jessie is “poor” and at school on a scholarship, and Ravi is this “super rich” nepo baby.

The thing that kind of annoyed me tho, was the language that is sometimes used throughout the book. You really notice that it is a new book using a lot of popular language and words such a nepo baby. That seemed kind of odd to me. But that may be because I am “old” and not used to it.

I really enjoyed the development of the relationship but it sometimes felt a bit rushed. Like they were rivals ar first and then immediately went to lovers. There was no slower more even development and growth between them.

Overall an enjoyable YA romance. But it is really YA. If you like ya romances with a bit of mysterie then this is definitely the book for you.

It also kind of reminded me of Everyone’s thinking it and I hope this doesn’t find you. It had the same vibes, with the addition of the more popular written language.

PS. I think I would have enjoyed this one way more if I was younger and I do think that I am not really the right audience for this one

This book is already released, the first of may.

A quick, fun, and engaging read. It’s a short read but what I loved was it got right to the story and didn’t have a lot of build-up. Books like this one do need that much build-up.

Jessi and Ravi couldn’t be more different but make such a strong connection. Jessi is a freshman in college and wants to become an engineer. She has worked hard to get to where she is. Ravi on the other hand is a senior and comes from a wealthy family. He wants no part of the family business and continues to fight them on what they want him to do.

In a nonfiction writing class, both Ravi and Jessi decided to work together and investigate the local fire back in the 1970s that took two people's life that happened in the library on campus. They find letters from the couple and they begin reading them. They learn a lot about this couple and soon realize they are in the same boat as they were.
I enjoyed reading this book. You quickly realize how close the letters match Ravi and Jessi’s life and what they are going through. It was sweet to see how much they cared for each other in such a short amount of time.

Thank you, NetGalley for allowing me the chance to read this book! Thank you, Nisha Sharma, for a well-written book. I enjoyed reading your book and can’t wait to read more from you!

I love YA romance so I was really looking forward to this! It was fast-paced and sweet with the perfect amount of mystery.

A library? An old romance? Mystery? I loved everything about this!
A quick yet enjoyable YA read, I loved the connection and relationship growth between the two main characters, and combined with an old mystery, love letters, and a library? That equals a great read!

This was a nice read. I can’t recall the last time I read a book that had letters as a theme so that was refreshing.

I enjoyed the chemistry between Ravi and Jessie, it’s always fun to read the enemies to lovers trope. I liked the passion Jessie had for her studies and her career. Ravi is also a very interesting character because it’s very rare I come across an Indian male character whose dream is to be a writer.

I liked the way the lead characters worked together to uncover the mystery behind the Davidson Tower incident. I especially loved the story of Divya and Christian, a classic star crossed lovers. There were some parts of the book that I felt could be written better especially with the conflict between the main characters but overall I would say it was a fine book to read.

This was a breathtakingly beautiful love story.
It captured my attention from the very biggening, even reading only the overview gave me goosebumps the first time I read it.
I fell in love with the characters, I fell in love with the intertwining love stories that’s being told in the book. I laughed, I cried, and I wished for a love like the love two lovers who disappeared had. It was perfectly written, nothing was given away too soon and it holds you captivated until the very end. Just like they grew closer and their feelings grew for each other so did the characters grow throughout the story, they grew to understand both each other and themselves. When they fall so will you.

The Letters We Keep by Nisha Sharma was published on 01 May 2024, Go check it out, you are definitely going to love it.

The Letters We Keep is a new adult romance set in a college environment. It follows the evolving relationship between two South Asian characters, both driven by a shared determination to unravel an intriguing mystery hidden within their campus library.

I can handle a little insta love here and there, but there’s barely any buildup and tension in this book. It’s made the story feel overly rushed: from hating each other to sleeping together and professing their undying love for each other in about a hundred pages.

Not saying the book was all bad, of course. I liked the writing, and I was intrigued by the letters and the mystery (but trying not to question too much why they left the letters behind in the first place). Also, I felt the characters and their backgrounds had a lot of potential. I’m happy we got a lot of insight into Ravi’s feelings about being a nepo baby, but Jessie’s character was unfortunately left mostly underdeveloped, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, there were just a lot of small things that I didn’t like that made me roll my eyes a million times while reading this. For example, Ravi is described multiple times as a campus playboy (he has fangirls?) for absolutely no reason other than to set this book up to be a playboy/good girl romance. That’s a major ick.

Letters we Keep is a sweet, quick, young adult college romance.

I enjoyed the interwoven stories of Ravi and Jesse, in present day, and Divya and Christian, told through letters. I would have loved a bit more of Divya and Christian’s story, but enjoyed their relationship arc, and the influence it had on Ravi and Jesse’s relationship.

While at times the themes of the book felt a bit overwrought (the socioeconomic differences, the insta love between Ravi and Jesse), I really liked their earnestness and passion. The book was well paced, and the writing style engaging. I’ve added another of the authors books to my tbr.

Thank you Skyscape and NetGalley for this book. Opinions expressed are my own.

I loved this book!! It was inspired bu Sharma's own family stories. It is sweet and romantic. Sharma is great at writing romances that make
you feel every emotion!! She has become one of my favorite romance authors!

I really wanted to love this book. The plot was there however unfortunately I found the dialogue to be lacking and the romantic relationship and the characters to be underdeveloped. The Idea of the letters was so good but the execution just wasn’t there for me. I did however enjoy the last 50 pages and felt they were the strongest point.

I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but I sure didn't expect to love it so deeply! The MCs are so easy to care for and before I knew it, I was enraptured by the wonderful storytelling. It's NOT young adult, with one spicy scene, but apart from that I think it's ok for a younger audience. I've previously read 2 other books by Nisha Sharma, but this is easily my fave, and it's also super short. Keeping my review just as short, I'm gonna tell you to buy this book and read it for sure. It's too good to miss out on and I'm in awe of the author's expertise in going over so many themes and characters in 250 short pages yet holding onto the reader's attention. Do I wish it were a little longer? No! It's absolutely perfect at its length, so a read for those in a slump to consider.

Wow, this book was completely different from what I have read from Nisha and I absolutely loved it! I was hooked early on and found myself not wanting to put it down so that I could learn more about the secrets on the letters. The ending quite literally took me out and it was just so well written. I really enjoyed this book!!