I’m sad that this series is over but what a great book to end it on! I LOVED this book so much! The dedication alone made me feel seen!

I can’t decide if this one or Dating Dr. Dil is my most favorite book in the series!

Friends to lovers is my favorite romance trope! 🙌🏻 Add fake marriage to it and you’ve got yourself the recipe for a delicious read!

I feel each book in the series is so unique. What I especially loved about this book, which is based on the Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night, was the level of detail in which the author described and portrayed the Indian wedding and marital traditions such as Karva Chauth, some of which I’ve only seen in Bollywood movies and never on the pages of a book so it made my South Asian heart flutter! 💓

We also finally find out who Mrs. W. S. Gupta, our very own South Asian Lady Whistledown, is!

Highly recommend this book and the entire series!

Veera Mathur is in a tough place, both figuratively and literally. After being forced out of the family company and losing her best friend Deepak Datta in the process, she's been traveling the world with her twin sister as they try to start their own consulting business. But when her sister backs out of their business plans and they are shipwrecked after a client's yacht sinks, she's really hit her limit. In need of cash, she calls the one person who can front her the money: Deepak.

Deepak is not in a great position either. Months ago, he proposed a loveless marriage to a fellow company board member. Then one morning, he wakes up to a Get Ready With Me video of her explaining why she's ending their engagement. The relationship that should have cemented his nomination as company CEO now threatens to end it. So, when Veera calls for help, he flies across the world to her side. He tells himself that it's to lay low during a PR disaster, but the truth is, he's missed her, having distanced himself following his engagement.

After some heavy drinking, they agree to demonstrate a traditional marriage ceremony for a couple they meet and in the process, end up married themselves. What started as a lark on a beach quickly becomes another potential public relations disaster, and Deepak is quick to suggest that they continue their semi-fake marriage, at least until he's officially the company CEO.

Veera, who's been deeply in love with this utterly blind man since they first met, agrees. They quickly fall into a happy, comfortable routine. But Veera's evil father, still part of the company, is out to sabotage Deepak's chances at becoming CEO and he's got a willing ally in Deepak's former fiancé. It will take the rest of their family and friends to overcome this hurdle, but Veera and Deepak eventually get what they want.

It's a great book. The whole series is excellent. However, if you are at all sensitive to toxic family dynamics, these can be tough reads. Veera's father is the absolute worst, but frankly, her twin sister has some messed up moments. And Veera, numb in her grief over losing her career AND Deepak, neglected her other, female friends, so she has some issues to work out too. There are definitely some wonderful, accepting, lovely side characters and almost everyone who messes up is redeemed (just don't expect any fairy tale endings with dear old Dad). So it isn't to say that all the characters are awful. But it's a theme in this series that the people who raise you can also hurt you pretty badly, and if that isn't a comfortable place for you, maybe steer clear.

Recommended for readers who enjoy smart, fierce business women who are willing to confront their toxic family dynamics AND international business relations. If competence is your thing, this book (along with the rest of this stellar series) is for you. If you don't mind a friends-to-lovers trope with a MMC who you occasionally want to smack upside the head, "Marriage & Masti" is a good choice.

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of "Marriage & Masti" by Nisha Sharma in exchange for an honest review.

I think this a perfect way to end this trilogy. I would even go so far to say that this is the best book of the trilogy by Sharma. There are still some things that I found slightly corny/juvenile when I know the aim was to be funny. However, it came off slightly embarrassing instead of being funny. I will say that this friends to lovers hit just right and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the progression of Deepak and Veera’s relationship.

At the end of the day, I recommend people read this!

Vera's been in love with her friend Deepak for a long time. So when he suddenly announces his engagement to a gorgeous influencer, she’s crushed, and cuts off contact with him. A year later, disaster strikes, and she has no recourse but to call Deepak for help. Having just been very publicly broken up with, Deepak is happy to flee New York to rescue his beloved friend in Goa, India. Despite their estrangement, Veera and Deepak fall easily into their old friendship, and after a night of drinks, they accidentally end up getting married. Deepak convinces Vera to stay married since it'll help both their career aspirations back home in NYC. But while Veera tries her best to hide her true feelings for him, Deepak begins to genuinely fall for her and sets about to transform their marriage of convenience into a real love marriage. In this final installment of the delightful trilogy of retellings, If Shakespeare was an Auntie, Sharma features her entertaining mainstay of close friendships, sexy storylines, and boisterous family members set within a tightnit and elite South Asian community.

A wonderful conclusion to the “If Shakespeare Were an Auntie” series. Veera and Deepak made a perfect pair. I just wish for a little more spice

People talk about the Maas verse or the Jimenez verse, but my favorite fictional universe is the Sharmaverse. Twelfth Night is also my favorite Shakespearean play and I had high hopes for this book, along with a satisfying ending for the two characters that deserve a HEA more than anyone in this series. Nisha blew these expectations away and delivered a book full of heart, hope, and a beautiful marriage of Indian traditions amidst American life. I also love how she wove elements from her billionaire series into the plot of this book (IYKYK), and I started the book again immediately after I finished it. Truly one of my favorite books this year and an immediate add to my comfort re-read list.

I tried so hard not to finish this book. As soon as I saw that there were no more If Shakespeare was an Auntie, I knew that I would not want to find the conclusion of this series.

I am a self reported friends to lovers hater. But this one might be my favorite F2L of all. I've loved these characters since Dating Dr. Dil, and Veera and Deepak might just be my favorite.

Their journey to a happily ever after, plus the journey that all of the women have as friends is so beautiful that I cannot believe this is over.

I don't want to spoil it, but everyone truly gets what they deserve at the end of this and it could not make me happier.

Nisha Sharma you will always be famous!

In a dazzling conclusion to the If Shakespeare Was An Auntie Series, Nisha Sharma tackles fake marriage and friends-to-lovers. Veera Mathur has been through a lot recently. Her two best friends fell in love, the man she’s been in love with for years got engaged without telling her, and her father fired her from the family company before selling it. Deepak also hasn’t had the best year. In order to secure the board votes to become CEO of his family’s company, he was ready to marry Olivia Gupta. However, when he finds out he's been dumped via TikTok video, all his plans come crashing down and he wants the one person who always made him feel confident and helped him.

When Deepak gets a call from Veera after eight months, Deepak rushes to help her. After a night of drowning their sorrows in drinks, Deepak and Veera accidentally get married. When they sober up, they realize a marriage could be exactly what they each need for their careers. But as their lives and souls become entwined and the lines between fake spouses and real spouses blurs, they have to decide if love is really worth risking everything.

I always love everything Nisha Sharma writes. She writes with a wit and confidence that makes her stories so powerful to read. After reading Dating Dr. Dil and Tastes Like Shakaar last summer, I was eagerly awaiting the final installment of this series. Deepak and Veera had always been the most lowkey of this group, and I was so excited to see more of them.

I absolutely loved getting to know Veera. Everyone sees her as a softie and underestimates her because of that, but underneath her kindness is a spine of steel who is confident in herself and her abilities. I really understood how she was feeling and where she was coming from, particularly when she intentionally put distance between herself and her best friends, Bobbi and Kareena. While it hurt me because I absolutely love their friendship, I understood how Veera felt left out and thought distancing herself would ease the pain. The moments between the three of them, though few, were honestly my favorite of the book. Their love for each other is so powerful and beautiful to read about.

The reason I give this 4 stars is more about my personal preference than anything. I have a very hard time with friends-to-lovers, particularly when the guy does the annoying thing where he’s like wow, has she been in front of me this whole time?? Deepak did that for the first several chapters, and it was incredibly frustrating, especially when we know based on the epilogue of Tastes Like Shakaar that Veera has been in love with Deepak for a while. Sometimes, you don’t know until you know, but it felt like he was taking advantage of Veera (and I love Veera, I would fight to the death for her).

Overall, a beautiful conclusion to the delightful series.

Of course I loved this book, but I was so sad when I finished! The fact that this series is over makes me so upset! Dating Dr. Dil was one of the books that got me back into reading, so finishing Marriage and Masti was really bittersweet. And to finish the series off with a friends to strangers to lovers was truly chefs kiss. I was sold by this book at the dedication and I knew then that it was going to rip my heart out. Also loved that it was a Twelfth Night retelling, because it really made me want to rewatch "She's the Man".