A Convenient Marriage by Jeevani Charika
It was the perfect marriage… until they fell in love.
Chaya is a young woman torn between her duty to family and her life in the UK. While her traditional Sri Lankan parents want her to settle down into marriage, what they don’t know is that Chaya has turned away the one true love of her life, Noah, terrified of their disapproval.
Gimhana is hiding his sexuality from his family. It’s easy enough to pretend he’s straight when he lives half a world away in the UK. But it’s getting harder and harder to turn down the potential brides his parents keep finding for him.
When Chaya and Gimhana meet, a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution to their problems. Together they have everything - friendship, stability and their parents’ approval. But when both Chaya and Gimhana find themselves falling in love outside of their marriage, they’re left with an impossible decision – risk everything they’ve built together, or finally follow their heart?
Will they choose love, or carry on living a lie?
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This was everything you want to see on a book now a days...even though it keeps you on the edge of your seat because you never know what is going to happen but man it was good.
Chaya has a very traditional Sri Lankan family and even though she has left their home and country to study aboard, they still expect her to settle down into marriage with a Sri Lankan boy. But what they don't know is that she turned away her one true love, Noah because she doesn't want to disappoint them. At the end she will do whatever it is that makes them happen even if her heart is broken forever.
Gimhana has been hiding his sexuality from his family since ever. It's not that hard because he has been living half a world away from them. But now it's getting harder to find an excuse of not getting married, as his parents expect him to marry a sri Lankan girl as it is tradition. He is torn of what to do, until an opportunity presents itself.
When Chaya and Gimhana meet, they both find the perfect solution to their problems. A marriage of convenience. He can hid his sexuality, she can live the life she has been living until now, married to her job and keep her heart away as it will never love anyone besides Noah. So, they both go on with their plan. And things go so well but everything comes crumbling down.
Loved learning about Sri Lankan culture, and every time they were eating I wanted to be there eating with them too lol. Chaya also suffers from anxiety and it was not sugar coated in this book, Chaya had full on anxiety attacks and the world needs to know more about them and more about mental health. Thumbs up Jeevani Charika. Gimhana was everything you wanted in a friend, he was always there for Chaya and the was the perfect "husband", loved his sexuality was done in this book and how is relationships was shown, Another thumbs up.
Ah, I really loved reading this book, I was rooting for Chaya and for Gimhana even when their "marriage" was all over the place. Each of their personality will steal your heart and you will fall for both of them.
Totally recommend...5 out of 5 stars.
I got an ARC from NetGalley.
XOXO,
Nelia
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