nisha sharma does it again! really enjoyed this book and found it be very well written!

the romance plot was so well paced and I found it so enjoyable to watch the two characters develop!

thank you so much for this ARC! :)

In the captivating narrative of "Letter We Keep," the intertwining lives of Jessie and Ravi unfold against a backdrop of divergent social strata, illuminating the stark disparities that define their worlds. Hailing from contrasting spheres of society, Jessie and Ravi embark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of time and prejudice, as they delve into the poignant remnants of a love story buried within old letters.

As the fragile parchment reveals the tender exchanges of a bygone era, Jessie and Ravi find themselves inexorably drawn to each other, their hearts tethered by the enduring power of love's legacy. Despite the chasm that separates their social standing, they discover common ground in the shared pursuit of unraveling the mysteries of the past, forging a bond that defies the dictates of class and convention.

Their story unfolds not in isolation, but against the backdrop of parallel narratives, where echoes of societal constraints reverberate through the ages. Through the lens of history, we witness the struggles of two couples navigating the treacherous currents of societal expectations, their fates intertwined by the unyielding forces of prejudice and privilege.

Yet, amidst the labyrinth of societal norms and expectations, Jessie and Ravi's journey serves as a poignant reminder of the enduring human spirit, transcending the barriers of time and prejudice to embrace the transformative power of love and understanding. "Letter We Keep" is a testament to the resilience of the human heart, inviting us to confront the complexities of social class and the enduring legacy of prejudice that persists, even in the face of the inexorable march of time.

I definitely agree with the authors note the love of letters. It's so amazing finding letters from grandparents or older generations. It's such an amazing gift you found. So much history, viewpoint and timeline. I used to be a pen pal with my great aunts and their stories were bizarre to me in elementary school, but I cherish them now.
This is an adult book but college age. This is a freshman and junior in college romance. Such different paths in a way even though they are so close in age. They come from different socio-economic backgrounds and hid themselves from the public friends they had. The friends their status forced on them.
Loved how he started a rivalry just to stay close to her and get her to talk to him.
Loved all the discoveries of themselves and their relationship through the parallels of these letters.


Thank you Nisha Sharma for the gifted book! Love your books!

I love this book so much! Nisha Sharma has uickly become an autoread author for me. This is ther perfect blend of her sweet YA romances and her spicy adult romances. The stakes feel appropriately high and the romance is so well plotted out. I highly recommend this book.

Ravi, the son of a super rich guy, always uses the same library booth to study, until one day Jessie reserves it before him. He tries to show her that the cabin is his, but she doesn't lower her head. His friends, seeing what happened, prank her by locking her in the library. Ravi goes to rescue her and they find letters from a woman in love. Together they will try to find out what happened to the couple and, predictably, become interested in each other. I recommend reading!

Thank you for the ARC! I really enjoyed this book as it had me hooked from the beginning. It was very well written and the description of the two main characters was amazing. I cannot wait to read other books written by this author.

This is such an intriguing story that mixes a story of a past couple who were lost in a mystery in a college building and a newer pair who finds themselves falling for each other while reading these old, love letters, the promise itself of having them in this library of mystery and secrets is a fantastic way to push them together. The letters themselves show the love story that was intriguing and pulled on your heartstrings as well. Jesse and Robbie’s was also fascinating because seeing them have to deal with their differences, but understanding that they had an attraction to one another involved in the book from start to finish.

I don’t think this book is bad per se it just isn’t the right pick for me. I enjoyed the overall premise, South Asian representation, Divya & Christian storyline, dual point of view between Ravi and Jessie, as well as how short and easy it was to read. However I did find the relationship to lean towards the Insta-love sort which is not something I personally enjoys. This therefore made it quite difficult for me to get fully invested in the book. I am also not fond on the usage of terms such as ‘pick me’ or ‘nepo baby’, it kind of felt forced and like the characters were written to match gen z internet portrayals which unfortunately isn’t always a realistic portrayal.

Thank you, Skyscape, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Pride and Prejudice meets Romeo and Juliet.

First year university student and first generation Indian-American Jessie Ahuja has one goal for herself, study hard, earn her engineering degree, and live out the American dream her father was denied. When she meets campus superstar Ravi Kumar, she knows she has nothing in common with this third generation American Indian with his life of wealth and privilege.

This is my kind of read! It pays homage to all my favorite tropes and knocks it home with the mandatory HEA. I enjoyed the back and forth, the relationship development, despite one of them experiencing insta-attraction, the other kept up the enemies to lover's ride until, the pivot, the fall into a relationship seemed rushed. From I loathe you, to let's do all the things seemed to skip a lot of steps for me. Despite the turn of Jessie's countenance seeming to come out of thin air, the story did its job of explaining how race and economic diversity can make for a difficult love story.

Since I love a quick read, it worked for me.

Let me start by saying I love Nisha! I loved her books in the dating dr dil series!

There were so many things that intrigued me about this book:
South Asian rep
Letter writing
Dual POV
Letter writing
The intertwining of an old love story and mystery
Academia
Romance against the odds


Sadly, this book fell a little flat for me. Jesse and Ravi are both sweet, college aged students. (This is a new adult romance). Their life paths and differences in how they were raised (one with money and one without) create barriers for their love story. Through the unfolding of a love story from the 70s they start to unravel together they learn that their love just might be enough to beat the odds.

The characters felt a little one dimensional for me. I was hoping to see more depth from both of them. Jessie is extremely focused on their differences in SES and this is brought up endlessly throughout the novel. Ravi, although sweet, instantly falls for Jessie.

I was also expecting a little more from the letter writing. I was expecting more depth from them. The final letter written is what I was expecting for the letters throughout the novel.

Overall it was a pleasant read and I liked a lot of the components. I loved reading the authors note and why this story is special to her and I do like how the letters and current story parallel each other.

You’ll never see this but I still love you Nisha.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an e-ARC of this in exchange for my review!

Two rival students, a decades old mystery love story gone tragically wrong, and the possibility of falling in love and a dash of Jane Austen. Jessie Ahuja is a freshman who is an aspiring engineer on a scholarship, she has her entire life mapped out and is determined to do whatever it takes to succeed. Ravi Kumar is the privileged billionaire nepo baby who is as charming as he is intelligent. Ravi and Jessie run into each other at a party and immediately get under each other's skin. Jessie and Ravi soon find out that they are both in the same english class and when they both end up locked up in the old haunted school library, famous for being the place where two ill-fated lovers disappeared in a fire over fifty years ago... the last thing they both expect is to find said lover's letters and to begin to work on solving the mystery of what happened to the lovers all those years ago. Despite constantly fighting for the study room, they decide to spend time together reading the letters and working out what happened to the famous lovers. Ravi and Jessie soon begin to fall for one another, but are their world's too different, with Ravi's wealthy family and Jessie's insecurities about their different worlds... can romance really work between them? This was an utterly charming and adorable read, it's definitely such a cute take on Pride and Prejudice with a modern love letter touch. Ravi and Jessie were an adorable couple. I loved how they fell for one another and how their love story evolved. It was just a sweet read and I would absolutely recommend it!!

*Thanks Netgalley and Skyscape for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

I am obsessed with Nisha Sharma and Ravi.
The he falls harder trope is so good. The intertwining of the two love stories is something I wish we could have gotten more of. The ending left me wanting for more from both love stories.
This mystery romance was so adorable and I’m so very thankful for the ARC and opportunity to read it.

This was a cute book. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good YA book, but this one was geared towards what felt like a 16 year old YA book. Nothing wrong with the writing, I just felt like it was more towards a much younger audience than I’m used to with some YA books. The writing was still beautiful though!

It’s been a while since I read a novel for a younger audience, in this case, a New Adult romance. But even so, The Letters We Keep is instantly captivating, with characters that feel real and both a love story and a mystery keeping the pages turning. Jessie Ahuja has just started her first year of college, and I could relate to her in several ways: She comes from a working class background, she’s wholly focused on her classes, and she’s working part-time to afford being a full-time student. She is completely unlike Ravi Kumar, a college senior and billionaire nepo baby. He’s never needed to worry about money or his career prospects… but he is at odds with his controlling dad, who insists Ravi follow in his footsteps, ignoring his own passion for creative writing.

Jessie and Ravi start off as rivals, not only due to their different backgrounds and Jessie’s resulting prejudice against Ravi, but also because they both want to use the same study room at the library. Jessie isn’t the only one who cares about her grades! She’s inadvertently stolen the study room Ravi’s been using the past few years, and neither one is willing to give it up. This sets off a weeks-long battle for the room, which also leads them to stumble across a decades-old campus mystery. When they find the secret letters of two students who may have died in a fire back in the 1970s, Jessie and Ravi overcome their differences and team up to unravel this unsolved mystery.

The Letters We Keep is interspersed with short letters that one of the missing students wrote to her forbidden college boyfriend. She was Indian and he was white, and they could never be together, despite their love for each other. As Jessie and Ravi work through the letters and track down anyone who could know what happened, they get to spend a lot of time together. Playing detective opens up the opportunity for their own unlikely love story to unfold.

I enjoyed seeing two people—so opposite in some ways but so similar in others—get close to each other through this shared project. It’s a rapidly unfolding campus romance, but Jessie still has her reservations, largely due to their different financial backgrounds. As someone who’s also felt the impact of money constraints my whole life, I appreciated the discussions Jessie and Ravi have about wildly disparate socioeconomic standings, career prospects, and family support. Would them being together ever work out, or are they just too different? Would his family ever approve of her, or would they tear them apart?

The Letters We Keep is a fast-paced and thoughtful novel about star-crossed lovers kept apart by race or socioeconomic standings, solving a decades-old mystery, and forging your own path no matter the odds against you. I enjoyed both the romance and mystery aspects of it, and am pleased with my first foray into Nisha Sharma’s non-adult novels.

This book was really sweet! I love the idea of a lost love that rivaled main couple bringing them closer together. Despite lifestyles and upbringings, they couldnt be kept apart. I hope Nisha Sharma write more New Adult romances in the future because this one was very heartwarming.

This was such a different experience for me in reading a Nisha Sharma book. Although there are other books by her I havent read yet, But something about academia setting, the two MCs coming together in that type of setting was so unique.
It was also a promise of time together and that was something I looked forward to a lot when reading.

totally rec this one!

Great plot and great romance

The Letters We Keep by Nisha Sharma was a great romance story!
This was so fun and cute and I loved both characters.
Jessie and Ravi really sucked me into their story.
The writing was great and I couldn’t really feel the emotion and characters feelings here.

Thank You NetGalley and Skyscape for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

oq dizer de um livro que acompanha dois jovenzinhos que se apaixonam no mesmo tempo em que descobrem uma história de amor ao lerem cartas que eles encontraram?

jessie e ravi são tão, mas tão fofos que eu fiquei metado do tempo esperando eles ficarem juntos e a outra esperando a nisha escrever mais uma cena deles se declarando um para o outro s2s2

esse é o livro perfeito para (na minha cabeça) para se ler numa tarde chuvosa com sua bebida de conforto favorita, inclusive saudade de tomar thai (um chá típico indiano)… enfim, ravi e jessie são dois alunos da classe de “nao ficcao” e o trabalho final é escrever sobre alguém e seu legado. depois de uma leve rixa por uma determinada sala de estudos, eles encontram em uma parta da universidade um pilha de cartas de amor de um dos lados da história e juntos vão desvendar se essa história tem ou não um final feliz e eu amei!

tudo nesse livro é lindo e gostoso de desfrutar! eu amo você nisha sharma, você sempre será uma lenda viva para mim… aah, a nota ficou 10/5 ⭐️ e tbm foi favoritado com todas as minhas forças 🫶🏽

opinião sincera para o netgalley e editora da autora em troca da cópia avançada. o livro lançou dia 01 de maio e está disponível no KU ou o audiolivro no Audioble :)

When they discover old letters hidden in the university library, unlikely pair Jessie Ahuja, an ambitious and by-the-book freshman, and Ravi Kumar, a rich, nepo-kid senior, team up to unravel the truth behind a longtime mystery on campus. They just may have found correspondence between the couple rumored to have disappeared during the legendary fire in the library’s Davidson Tower.

As they spend more and more time together, Jessie and Ravi discover that, despite their surface differences and disparate socioeconomic backgrounds, they have more in common than they originally thought.

At a glance:
- New Adult (college age/setting, some on-page love scenes)
- South Asian representation
- Dual POV
- Epistolary
- He falls first (I do so love it when he falls first!)

I appreciated the honest portrayals of Jessie’s and Ravi’s lives, their similarities, and their differences. I enjoyed watching two love stories unfold—the one between Jessie and Ravi and the one depicted in the letters. And the ending gave me all the warm fuzzies.

I highly recommend reading the “Dear Reader” section after the story’s conclusion.

I received an advance copy of the book from Skyscape and NetGalley. All review opinions are my own.

Overall, I did like it, but I felt that while their backgrounds were a little cliché, it felt like they were mentioned way too many times. I really enjoyed the mystery aspect with the letters and how they intertwined it with South Asian culture and what it was like for an interracial couple in the 1970s. I did love the inclusion of the actual letters mixed in the chapters! I did like how the ending of the mystery wrapped up, especially the epilogue!

The romance also felt a little rushed and a little too insta-love for me. This was definitely written for a younger audience so I feel like I would’ve loved it more if I read it at a younger age!

Thank you to Skyscape and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!