GRR Reviews Hita (Princesses of Silicon Valley) by Anita Claire

Hita by Anita Claire can be retitled as "A Girl Looking For Love In All the Wrong Places".

Hita is a among a group of girls known as Princesses (due to their Halloween costumes one year) and she just interviewed for some serious tech jobs, but graduating school also means her very Indian parents are in a hurry to match her with "eligible" Indian bachelors ("having tea"). However, Hita is thoroughly Americanized and has no desire to accept an arranged marriage. As Hita worked, interviewed, partied, gamed, and dated around, finding companions from friends, job, party, introductions, and even fellow gamers, she somehow never found the right ones, even the relationships that lasted a couple weeks did not seem right. Her dates didn't share her passion, didn't share her culture, didn't share her sense of humor, or some other problems. But perhaps, she just haven't looked at the right place...

The main problem with this book is there is no... conflict. There's no time limit or anything to ratchet up the tension. This is basically just a diary that chronicled her search for love all over the place, then finally found it where she didn't expect. On the other hand, it was still a lot of fun to read, as the cultural references seem to be right on. The author has excellent description of how "desperate" the Asian mothers want to marry their daughters off.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Silicon Valley Girl Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places

Tropes: coming of age, blind to you, arranged marriage

Overall Rating:  4/5