As guest relations manager at the Grand Orchid Hotel in New Delhi, Aisha Bhatia meets people of means daily. If it were up to her mother, she'd put a sign that says, "29 and Single" on her desk and hope that one of the available men checking in at the hotel would ask her out. Aisha is desperate, but not that desperate.29 year old single women in India are an anomaly. Aisha's cousins and one of her best friends, Anushka, have all crossed over into the land of holy matrimony. Anushka is crossing back though and Misha, Aisha's other best friend, has firmly stayed on the single side with Aisha, but not because she hasn't been trying to find a husband.
Like a scene straight out of a Bollywood flick, Aisha bumps into a handsome stranger in a country club parking lot as she's toilet papering a car and, again, when she catches sight of him, stark naked in his hotel room. And, of course, she continues to have frequent run ins with him, no matter where she goes.
This book was cute and funny, but had the potential to be more entertaining than it was. The author didn't do a good job of making the reader care about any of the characters. The interactions between Aisha and Karan felt very stiff and it came as a surprise that they considered themselves a couple, since those stiff interactions rarely happened when the two of them were alone.
288pp
Published: February 2009
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