A review by pn_hinton
First Comes Like by Alisha Rai
4.0
Jia and Dev's first actual meet up is, in a word, less than auspicious. They quickly figure out what happened and both meet up to figure out the best way to go from there.as both have their reasons for wanting to not let the specifics of the relationship come to light, as Jia doesn't wish to have her parents know she got cat-fished and Dev doesn't want it let known who did the cat fishing. However, after they get caught in a somewhat compromising position by the paparazzi and get questioned by their respective families, then they both decide to enter into a fake-dating agreement. Through a series of unforeseen circumstances, this ends up being a fake-engagement and the rest of the chips fall as they will from that.
This one was a huge change from the other Alisa Rai's that I have read in the past. It was a sweet romance with minimal steam. Which isn't say it was bad because it wasn't. It was just a change from what I have come to expect from the author. This was more about the friendship between the two before the romance was thrown in. There was obviously an attraction between the two but that wasn't the main focus of the story. I liked the slow build here although I know that it is not well liked by others. It worked for this story and for the types of people that Jia and Dev were.
I also liked how good of an uncle Dev was to Luna and how Jia made it a priority to make her feel welcomed. I feel that there could have been more development in the blossoming relationship that Dev was cultivating with Luna and even with his grandmother, but the focus was Jia and Dev. And because of how their relationship went, we don't get to see too much of the after the marriage so I hope that we revisit them later, since I genuinely enjoyed their story. I think a lot of Rai's fans may be surprised by the lack of steamy scenes but if they focus on the sweetness of the romance, this one will make its way to a favorite on their shelf, because it did for me.
This one was a huge change from the other Alisa Rai's that I have read in the past. It was a sweet romance with minimal steam. Which isn't say it was bad because it wasn't. It was just a change from what I have come to expect from the author. This was more about the friendship between the two before the romance was thrown in. There was obviously an attraction between the two but that wasn't the main focus of the story. I liked the slow build here although I know that it is not well liked by others. It worked for this story and for the types of people that Jia and Dev were.
I also liked how good of an uncle Dev was to Luna and how Jia made it a priority to make her feel welcomed. I feel that there could have been more development in the blossoming relationship that Dev was cultivating with Luna and even with his grandmother, but the focus was Jia and Dev. And because of how their relationship went, we don't get to see too much of the after the marriage so I hope that we revisit them later, since I genuinely enjoyed their story. I think a lot of Rai's fans may be surprised by the lack of steamy scenes but if they focus on the sweetness of the romance, this one will make its way to a favorite on their shelf, because it did for me.