Enemies to Lovers (Partners in Crime #2) by Alisha Rai
Sejal Chaudhary inherited her mama’s calculating brain, her daddy’s quick fingers, and the boatload of trauma that comes with being the eldest daughter of criminals. Although Sejal has never claimed to be a good girl, she’s spent the last couple years laying low and going (mostly) straight. That is, until a con gone wrong sends her into the arms of a handsome stranger who’s set on dragging her back into her messy family drama.
Krish Anand never mastered the fine art of being a bad boy…he would take a book over bullets any day. But when his FBI agent brother goes missing, he has no choice but to suit up for the adventure of a lifetime. Certain that someone in Sejal’s little crime family is behind the disappearance, a desperate Krish manages to convince the beautiful thief that his brother’s badge is actually his.
The deal is simple: help him find his brother, and Krish and the law will leave Sejal be. With an up-to-no-good ex also hot on her trail, Sejal reluctantly agrees. As they wind their way across the country on planes, buses, and automobiles, sparks ignite, and what began as a fragile temporary truce starts to look more and more like a partnership.
Falling for the enemy? So cliche, but so good…if only they can survive long enough to chance a happily ever after.
TROPES
Enemies-to-Lovers
Forced Proximity
Forbidden Love
Adventure Rom-Com
Review: Thank you to Avon Books for an ARC of this novel, which is out now!
This is the second book in this standalone collection and follows Sejal, the sister from the first book. Sejal is the daughter of criminals who has survived practicing small cons, until the day she winds up relying on a handsome stranger when a con goes wrong. But it turns out that that handsome stranger is Krish Anand and he was there to track down Sejal, who he believes can help him figure out the mystery behind his brother's disappearance. The two end up on the run together and slowly come to a delicate truce...and start to fall for each other.
This was a fun follow up to book two. It was nice to see mysterious Sejal getting her own story but also getting to learn more about her in this book, while also getting and update on characters we met in book one. However, this is very much a standalone and you certainly don't need to have read book one to understand this. It's a fun departure from the usual romances I read to have the crime element and certainly upped the ante on the tension in the plot.
However, I did feel like this fell a little flat for me. I didn't think the love story and relationship was as well developed as it could have been. It was difficult for me to believe that these two were really that into each other, or even that they had time to dwell on this while bullets are flying and people are chasing them. I also thought the whole undercover/crime/on the run storyline felt far-fetched and difficult to follow and it was difficult for me to suspend my disbelief that this could in any way actually happen.
Stars: 3
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