Review | Kismet In The Sky | Swati M.H. | Give Me Books Pr.

After sitting next to him on a flight to Delhi eight years ago, I didn’t think I’d ever see the tall, green-eyed gorgeous stranger again. 

Except in my dreams. 

But now, Clark Cooper is the COO of my company and I’m going to have a lot more to lose than just my job if we act on our undeniable attraction. 

We’ve traveled very different roads over the past eight years and carry a lot of baggage. 

We’re both fueled by guilt. My guilt adheres me to marry the man my orthodox Indian parents choose. His guilt has him running from relationships, let alone marriage. 

But you know what they say about the things we can’t have. 

We always want them.

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I am very happy to have had the opportunity to read this book that introduced us to Avni and Clark.

The way they both know each other is very loving. She is still a student and he is already part of the world of work. They meet on a plane trip towards India. Her home country and his vacation destination. During the trip Avni can't help always looking at him and being attracted to him. He, friendly and cordial, talks to her practically the whole trip, but only at the end of the trip do both present themselves as they should be.

Eight years later and he still populates the mind of Avni, now a young woman looking for a job to match her studies, since she specialized in Marketing. She was fortunate that her fate intersected with Clark again. However, they did not cross under normal conditions. He is just one of her bosses at the new company where she will start working and as soon as she sees him she knows that her life will never be the same. He, in turn, does not recognize her from the trip he made eight years ago, but he knows and feels that they have already crossed paths before.

So, it was not surprising at all, that the two felt that empathy and attraction for each other.

However, she carries with her a great deal of pain and a great sense of guilt for something that happened in the past and that took one of the most dear and important people to her. We have a cheerful Avni most of the time, but dark and emotionally punished at other times and when we least expect it.

Clark, for his part, does not have an easy past either. Somewhere along the way someone once broke his heart without any chance of reparation. He is a kind, humorous, intelligent man with a good head. However, as much as he likes Avni and feels that she could be such, he continues to behave like someone who will never settle and love someone to the fullest.

There is much more I could say about this book, but what really stuck with me was the way the author writes and presents this story to us. Light, simple, with hints of humor and attractive dialogues. I also really liked Avni's family figures. The way they always protected and always acted in her best interest, despite the stubbornness in which she should marry someone of the same ethnicity as them. For them, only the men, women and customs of India were worth.

Now, taking into account that Clark is not at all an Indian man, it will take a lot of courage on his part to go against all the beliefs of her family, that's all I thought about whenever I remembered the aversion that the parents they had to American men.

I really liked this couple and could tell a lot more things but I can only say that I strongly recommend reading this story that shows us that fate has several ways to surprise us and help to remake or to come to peace with the past and its traumas.