The Shaadi Set-Up
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Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Emily Henry, and Tessa Bailey, an Indian American woman signs herself and her boyfriend up for a matchmaking site to prove they're a perfect match, only to be paired with her ex instead. High school sweethearts Rita Chitniss and Milan Rao were the golden couple, until the day he broke her heart. Now, six years later, Rita has turned her passion for furniture restoration into a career and has an almost-perfect boyfriend, Neil. The last thing she needs is for Milan to re-enter her life, but that's exactly what happens when her mother, an unfailing believer in second chances, sets them up. Milan is just as charming, cocky, and confident as he was back in school. Only this time, he actually needs her business expertise, not her heart, to flip a hard-to-sell house for his realty agency. While Rita begrudgingly agrees to help, she's not taking any risks. To prove she's definitely over him, she signs herself and Neil up on MyShaadi.com, a Desi matchmaking site famous for its success stories and trustworthy enough to convince everyone that she and Neil are the new and improved couple. Instead, she's shocked when MyShaadi's perfect match for her isn't Neil...it's Milan. Ignoring the website and her mother is one thing, but ignoring Milan proves much more difficult, especially when she promises to help him renovate the beach house of her dreams. And as the two of them dive deeper into work—and their pasts—Rita begins to wonder if maybe her match wasn't so wrong after all....
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People forget how important it is to be with someone who makes them laugh.
What a cute read! After I read “The Love Hypthesis” by Ali Hazelwood and I started following her on Instagram, I saw her raving about “The Shaadi Set-Up”, so I knew I had to pick it up as well. I don't regret it at all, it turned out to be such a beautiful book.
I loved Rita and Milan's dynamic, they were so cute together. Their inside jokes were awesome and the fact that even after six years of being apart it felt like they were always there for each other really emphasized how strong their bond was. They found each other after such a long time and in some ways it was like they never left their happy place. They're adults now though, it's not a highschool or college relationship anymore, so adult problems get in the way.
And uh, can we talk about Rita's boyfriend, Neil? HE WAS SO ANNOYING. I wanted to smack him every single time he let his mother dictate his life and every single time he ignored Rita's wishes just because his mother wanted something or his mother said this or that. Ugh, I really wanted to smack him.
AND IF YOU'RE NOT CONVINCED TO READ THIS, THERE ARE NOT ONE, BUT TWO!!!! DOGS IN THIS BOOK. The beautiful babies Rita has, Henrie and Freddie. You will absolutely love them, trust me!
