The Village Bride of Beverly Hills

AN ENTERTAINING, WITTY NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN’S STRUGGLE TO BALANCE HER INDIAN HERITAGE WITH HER CAREER AMBITIONS IN GLAMOROUS LOS ANGELES.

This is fun fluff. Everything is just a bit too easy to be believable, and that goes double for the ending. But it was still fun.

Frothy and light, the book reads as though Daswani hoped a producer would pick it up and turn it into a straight-to-tv movie. And it would make a good one. Its a modern day fairytale with a princess who has a secret, a handsome prince, a couple of ogre-ish in-laws and three, if not ugly, then at least awkward, sisters. If you enjoy chicklit, then this is prime reading.

'Everything Happens for a Reason' and 'The Village Bride of Beverley Hills' are the same book published under two different titles.

I love this book! Daswani creates such a sympathetic character in Priya, a woman who gives up her old life for an arranged marriage and a traditional household (one in which her husband's parents also live) and doesn't pull the punches at the end. It's chick lit, but pretty high up that ladder.

A very nice book about an Indian girl who is given in marriage to a man who already lives in America. I liked the way Priya lives, I think a lot of people (including me!) can learn a lot from her honesty and modesty.
I liked the Hollywood ending, of course, but I find the sudden change in Sanjay not very credible.

Amusing Indian immigrant chicklit story. Good light vacation read. Daswani keeps it interesting.