this book man, this BOOK!!!!! gosh, i know exactly when the last time i felt this good about a book was and BOY has it been a while!

i picked this up thinking i wasn't too young anymore to start reading newsstand-novels, right? the ones that are steamy and slightly generic and are written with house-wives as the target audience. of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with those! you'll see no judgement from me, i just quite literally don't fit that demographic. it is hard, though, to come across mature books that are still light reads and have that whimsical quality to them, you know?

and this indeed does not qualify as whimsical. this was also... not as realistic and also not as dark or as sexy as some newsstand copies. this is kinda contemporary but also still very much an historic-piece? actually, i don't really know how to describe this book at all. i just know that i loved it. i was looking for arranged marriage books (my fave trope) and this is ALSO not quite that. it was, somehow, better.

given time perhaps i could come up with a better review, but i am writing it now and so i guess you just might need to take my word for it and give this a go.