Love doesn’t always hit like a thunderbolt. Sometimes it can grow quietly in the background until one day you realize it is there.
The Dating Plan, Sara Desai
Author: Sara Desai
Publication Date: 16 March 2021
Publisher: Berkley
Page Count: 352
Reading Method: Physical [BOTM Backlog]
Synopsis:
Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and boyfriends. With her life all planned out, and no interest in love, the one thing she can’t give her family is the marriage they expect. Left with few options, she asks her childhood crush to be her decoy fiancé.
Liam Murphy is a venture capitalist with something to prove. When he learns that his inheritance is contingent on being married, he realizes his best friend’s little sister has the perfect solution to his problem. A marriage of convenience will get Daisy’s matchmaking relatives off her back and fulfill the terms of his late grandfather’s will. If only he hadn’t broken her tender teenage heart nine years ago…
Sparks fly when Daisy and Liam go on a series of dates to legitimize their fake relationship. Too late, they realize that very little is convenient about their arrangement. History and chemistry aren’t about to follow the rules of this engagement.
Review:
A light-hearted and cheesy love story just hovering on the border of too dang cute to handle.
Daisy is a brilliant software engineer with a flair for fashion that makes me jealous. Her family has been relentlessly trying to set her up in the hopes of arranging her marriage, but she has plans of her own. In an attempt to get her family off her back, she strikes a deal with Liam, her childhood crush. Liam needs to be married – and fast! As part of his grandfather’s will, Liam must be married for a year in order to inherit the family business, so this deal couldn’t have come at a better time. In an effort to legitimize their relationship, they go on a series of fake dates… but they may be getting more out of the deal than they ever dreamed of.
I’m a mega fan of the fake dating trope and this one was a home run. It gave me everything I hoped for and more. I loved the deal, the dates, the chemistry, and the side plots of family bonding and Daisy’s career path. It was just too good. The characters were well written, with each perspective feeling like it belong to their individual personalities – no murkiness that can happen with multiple POVs.
I didn’t realize there was another book by Desai about Daisy’s cousin, Layla, but I will be picking it up immediately so I can continue on in this little bubble for a little while longer.
