Sniffing A Book

3.5/5 The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert starts with Prince Ruben on a business trip when he meets Cherry Neita at the school that she works for HR at. She's confident and knows how to get what she wants, but Prince Ruben gets under her skin. To keep her out of the press, Ruben lies to the paparazzi and says she's his fiancée while out on a date, so to keep up appearances, he takes her to his home country of HelgmØre where his brother is king and abusive to everyone. Cherry is bitter about the relationship at first, even though it's earning her a lot of money to take care of her sick sister at college in the United States. The couple that plots together stays together though as Ruben and Cherry work to free Ruben's sister-in-law and his two nieces from the King. The Princess Trap is a cute book and exactly what I expected from it. I expected smut and that's exactly what I got. It was easy to like the characters and feel for them when their life was...

Rating: 5/5 When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon is a contemporary romance novel. Dimple is an Indian girl who just wants to live a somewhat American life. Rishi is an Indian boy that wants to follow tradition and make his parents proud. Dimple wants to go college to start her career in programming, while her mother wants her to go to get an "Ideal Indian Husband". Though her parents agree to send her to a programing camp of sorts, there are ulterior motives that Dimple doesn't find out about until Rishi sees her for the first time. "Hello, future wife," he said, his voice bubbling with glee. "I can't wait to get started on the rest of our lives!" Dimple stared at him for the longest minute. The only word her brain was capable of producing, in various tonal permutations, was: What? What? Dimple didn't know what to think. Serial killer? Loony bin escapee? Strangely congenial mugger? Nothing made sense. So she did the only thing she...