Author: Aisha Saeed
Year published: 2025
Category: Adult fiction (romance)
Pages: 293 pages
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Location: (my 2025 Google Reading map): USA (GA)
Summary: Business has never been better for Nura Khan, a third-generation matchmaker in Atlanta. Her exclusive clientele benefits from her impeccable track record. And while a single thirty-one-year-old matchmaker would normally raise some perfectly threaded eyebrows in the community, Nura’s childhood best friend, Azar, is willing to double as her pretend fiancé at her clients’ weddings—even though Nura’s feelings for him might not be so pretend.
But all that glitters isn’t gold. While it’s not uncommon to get the occasional hate mail from rejected prospective clients, Nura is blindsided after a couple’s carefully constructed wedding implodes, the first in a cascading chain of suspicious and increasingly terrifying events. Someone is taking things too far, and with Azar and her matchmaking team by her side, Nura embarks on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that threatens not only her safety but everything she’s worked so hard to build.
Review: I read this book during my travels from home to Ithaca, NY to see my daughter. It was a great book for a series of flights.
I really enjoyed the combination of romance and a mystery, something I hadn't read before. I enjoyed Aisha Saeed's young adult novel Yes, No, Maybe So that she co-wrote with Becky Albertalli and she has a winner in her first adult novel, The Matchmaker.
The main characters are fun, interesting, and I liked the relationships between them. Women who have, for generations, run a matchmaking service is a fun premise. Throw in disgruntled and rejected clients, some family drama, and some villans and you have a really fun novel.
Challenges for which this counts:
- Diversity--main characters are Indian and Pakistani
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