I adored this! Even from the sample you can tell that the heroine Reena is going to be an absolute delight, already full of sarcasm and wit. The conflict is set up nicely, from Reena's over-bearing parents who want her to get married, to the obstacles in the way of Reena's ambitions. Heron quickly engages with the reader through a mix of comedy and drama, with the promise of romance already showing through in the first couple of chapters.

I definitely enjoyed this sneak peek at Accidentally Engaged and cannot wait to read more!

I loved this preview! It's definitely got me interested in the rest of the story when the book releases (only a couple of days away now!) The culture is absolutely fascinating and I love all the diversity included, the heroine seems like she's going to be a fun one to read about and I'm very intrigued in her hero. Very excited to read more about the cooking show, I'm a huge BBO fan so this sounds right up my street! And also fake dating/marriage is one of my all time favourite tropes so all in all this promises to be very a enjoyable read!

I really enjoyed this short trip diving into another culture - even if I had to google quite a few words. But, it was a learning curve, and I enjoy diversifying myself in my reading.
I was invested in the story, Reena seems like a great heroine, Nadim made me curious and a bit infatuated from the start.
The side characters are lively, add some movement and conflict to the storyline, and all of them are kinda eccentric, funny or exasperating.
I would've loved to read more of the book, the plot kinda had me hooked up, as I'm a sucker for marriage of convenience books.

My only problem was with the formatting, as a non-native speaker, the merged words were quite hard to figure out.

Enjoyable preview, i can’t wait to read the book when it’s out. I really liked the characters and their interactions and could feel the chemistry.

from this sample alone im super excited to see where this story goes! very great start so far. obviously without having read the rest of the book there isn't much I can say at the moment.

I wish I had more than the first few chapters as it's a teaser to start and not finish. As far as I can tell, the story is great.. but I won't know how to ends.

I’m so glad I got the opportunity to read the first 4 chapters of this book. It seems like a really good read and I can’t wait to read the rest of it.

Even though the galley for this book is only 4 chapters, I enjoyed it! There were some formatting issues with the ARC but overall I'm excited to read more about Nadim and Reena. There already seems to be some chemistry forming, and a marriage of convenience is my favorite trope. I definitely want to finish this book.

I enjoyed this preview. Reena is a home chef and loves baking bread. She hates her job in finance and longs to explore her home baking more and possibly attend a culinary class on bread baking. She's frustrated by her Indian family's constant attempts to set up an arranged marriage as well as their devotion to her older brother. Her new neighbor, Nadim is another potential husband.

While I enjoyed this preview, it did not hook me quite yet. I am intrigued by the talk of Reena going on a reality television cooking show. She needs to be engaged or married to compete and it has a dream prize. I'm thinking that she will ask Nadim to fake being engaged. I do love a good fake relationship!

The thing I really like about this book is having a Muslim woman be the lead. I don't think I've ever seen a romance novel with that. I also love the family dynamics that are presented in the first four chapters - there is a lot of nuance and cultural norms to be explored there.

I also like that this book is set in Toronto, Canada and all of Reena's family has immigrated there at some point. There is a lot of richness to be explored in this novel.

I'd likely read this book as I think it has a lot of interesting aspects.

Omg I loved this preview. It made me hungry for Indian food and sourdough bread! It read fast for me and I love the cover.

This preview was so good! It definitely got me excited for the release of the whole book. I love the concept of the baking show and am very excited to read more of it. Reena seems like a fun main character to be following for this story. I have also enjoyed the peak into her family culture that we have gotten so far as it's quite different from mine and I appreciate being able to read about other people's cultures included in books like this

I absolutely loved this preview and cannot wait to read the full book!!!

I love Reena. There aren't enough women characters who are blunt and to the point. And Nadim is fire!!! I'm so excited!

This was a wonderful glimpse of this book. It was funny, sassy, and sweet, I look forward to reading more about these interesting characters. I definitely recommend this book just based on this sample.

I really enjoyed the first four chapters of this book and I cannot wait to read the rest of the book. Nadim hasn’t totally won me over yet, but I am enjoying the banter/flirting between him and Reena.

Thank you so much to Forever and Netgalley for this preview of Accidentally Engaged! I Love this preview and I am so excited to read the full book!

Another fine preview from author Farrah Heron, this time of her delightful ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED. One more for my tumbling reading stack!

5/5 Stars

Pub Date 02 Mar 2021
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Thanks to the author, Forever (Grand Central Publishing), and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This feedback is for the preview of Accidentally Engaged! I LOVED the first 4 chapters and cannot wait to read the rest. Highly recommend so far!

Note to self, do not read this on an empty stomach. Otherwise, be prepared to place an order on instacart and grubhub. I'm preordering this romance for my overseas friends and starting a bookclub.

I’m a sucker for an own voices novel, and really looking forward to reading more of this book when it’s released! Definitely a preorder for me!

You had me at baking bread and British accents. Who hasn’t been baking bread during Quarantine? I know I have which is why this feels special to me. This preview of the first four chapters left me hungry for more. I’ve been looking for a story about that featured South Asians that felt like you could drop anyone into the story. So many books about children of immigrants feel over burdened and while it seems like the main character carries some of that baggage she is independent and has chosen her own path. She’s not struggling to fall in line it just seems she’s going to struggle when maybe this time her parents got it right. It’s come exactly at the right time. These first four chapters quickly laid the ground work for a story I am very excited to finish. March 2nd can’t come soon enough.