When Tara Met Farah
Sunshine Girl needs math lessons… Nineteen-year-old Tara Muvvala didn’t mean to lead a double life. But her bone-deep aversion to math + a soul-deep desire to please her mother = her failing math grade + exploding food vlog ‘this masala life’. Enter her mother’s research intern and resident math genius Farah Ahmed. Tara makes a deal with Farah - help her pass the math course and she’ll welcome Farah into the local Bollywood Drama & Dance Society. Grumpy girl gets life lessons… After losing her mom to a heart attack, dumping her small-minded boyfriend (she’s bisexual, not confused) and reluctantly moving to the US to be near her dad - all in the span of eighteen months, twenty-three-year-old Farah has hit the full quota on LIFE. Two things keep her going - her internship with a brilliant statistics professor and the possibility of meeting her dancing idol through the Bollywood Drama & Dance Society. That is, if her new hot-mess housemate will let her. Soon Tara and Farah are bonding over chicken biryani, dancing to Bollywood Beats at midnight and kissing... against all the odds. And maybe beginning to realize that while life’s even more complicated than math, love is the one variable that changes everything! Will they realize that together they have the recipe for a Happily Ever After?
Reviews
Nicki@xoninnip
Tbh it’s a 2.5 rounded up. There’s something that didn’t quite click in general with the story, but there was so many parts that I did enjoy that made up for it.
Elizabeth Hisserich@lizhiss
I really liked the characters and all the descriptions of mouth-watering food. I also really liked how well the book balanced being both sweet and sexy. The pet names started to grate on me to the point of taking me out of the story. I’m also not sure the switch between first person and third person was entirely successful or necessary, but I did get used to it as the story went on.
Aditi@phoenixs
Roz@irasobrietate