31. There's Something About Mira by Sonali Dev

listened on Audible

314 pgs.

2025
Adult CRF, cultural
Finished 7/6/25
Goodreads rating: 4.17
My rating: 5
Setting: contemporary NYC and India

My comments: If I rated this book on how I felt about some of the characters and the situations they created, my rating would be much lower. Oh how I gritted my teeth in places!  Thinking this book would be a light romantic comedy, I discovered I was quite mistaken. There were so many layers in this well-written novel that I loved it more and more as the author divulged new information.  I particularly enjoyed the glimpses of both New York City and of India.  I could see it all through Mira's eyes. Characterization, plot, setting - superbly created.  Highly recommend.

Goodreads synopsis:  From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes the heartfelt story of a woman determined to reunite a lost ring with its owner, who ends up finding herself along the way.

Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone.

While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira journalist Krish Hale. Brooding and arrogant, he will do anything to get to write this story.

As Krish and Mira reluctantly join forces and jump into the adventure of tracing the ring back to where it belongs, Mira begins to wonder if she is in the right place in her own life. She had to have found this ring for a reason…right? Maybe, like the owner of the lost ring, her happy ending hasn’t been written yet either.