Written in the Stars: A Novel

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If you love the romance genre you’ll like this one! It is set around the holidays so I think its a great book to read in the winter. Get the Book! elle was very earnest and sweet, i liked her too. the steamy moments were well written and the writing style was very entertaining to read. i absolutely loved the development of darcy and elle’s relationship for most of the book and thought that they had great chemistry. Nonetheless, I recommend this book to everybody particularly the readers who appreciate a good book on a social vice. The book carries a strong message that needs to find its way to everybody's shelf. This is certainly one of the best sapphic romances I've ever read. Though there are quite few to be found.

I was going to try to give this 4.5 stars but after I thought about it for 0.25 seconds, I realized this book is worth nothing less than 5 starsThis review is probably going to be a jumble of thoughts because this book hit me really hard (much harder than I was expecting) and I'm still reeling from it. I was so nervous to read this book because I had heard that it was “steamy”. You know I have a love hate relationship with romance books. Well, I am happy to report I liked it! This was my first female/female romance book and I really enjoyed it. You can chooses many things. You can choose what you want to be when you grow up, the types of shoes you want to buy, how long you want your hair to be. But your husband, that's different. We choose your husband for you. You understand that, right?

Overall I did enjoy Darcy’s and Elle’s relationship and how it progressed throughout the book. After their initial terrible first date they do stay open minded about each other and their interests and build a good understanding of each other throughout.I repeat again, this is not true for all families. I know people personally who fell in love, introduced their parents to their respective choices, and are happily married now. I know people whose marriage arranged by their elders fell apart. All these various digressions show that it is the people in the marriage who ultimately matter. But the idea that love marriages end in ruin and unhappiness while arranged marriages lead to ultimate bliss is too strongly entrenched in the Pakistani mindset for it to be shaken by a few youthful ideas. Plot: The semi enemies-to-lovers trope was really well done! However it seemed like a lot of points were rehashed over and over (yes, we get it, Darcy thinks falling for Elle would be a bad move, and Elle doesn’t want to mess up her business deal with Brendon). There was also noticeably repetitive language. Although, my copy was an ARC, so keep that in mind Naila, our main character, studies in American school and lives with her orthodox immigrant parents in Florida. She is forbidden to talk to any boys, but Saif has her heart and soon things start to change for her.