I was really vibing with the first half of this book. It was really fun and a good break from my reality into someone else’s (albeit fictional). I loved this author’s other books but this one fell a little flat for me about halfway through and it was a slog to finish.

The pacing of this felt off. The narrator explains massive time jumps, which are necessary to move the story along, but it felt awkward in execution. Months would pass by in a sentence or two and could be really easy to miss. Even with the time jumps, it felt like this book took place over a summer rather than over a year, which I honestly think would have been better as just summer shenanigans. This gets even worse at the end where each chapter is at least a month time jump. They are literally titled “One month later”, “Two months later”, “Three more months later”.

Getting too into it would require spoilers but the ending was too nicely wrapped up in a perfect little bow. Though I did enjoy aspects of the ending and what we find out about the other Lata, most of the ending was absurd.

Overall this book was fine but I would recommend reading Ramisetti’s other books instead of this one.

I really enjoyed the romantic comedy perfectly and how everything worked in this story. The characters were everything that I wanted and enjoyed the overall feel of this. Kirthana Ramisetti has a great writing style and enjoyed the overall concept to this. It had that romance element and was glad it worked overall. I enjoyed the high society element and glad I got to read this.

I found this book to be super entertaining. The author took a story about identity "theft" and made it about self-discovery and added humor and glam to it! I really got into Lata's head with the way the author described the action of the story. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. I think this would be a great book club choice!