The Blurb:
When all her efforts at political maneuvering, sucking up and even doing her job fail to land her that elusive promotion, Sitara decides it’s time to use the new marketing head Abhimanyu’s obsession with his horoscope to her advantage.Soon, she’s rescheduling meetings, pitching ideas and picking launch dates based on his horoscope. Except, Sitara is so focused on manipulating Abhimanyu with the career section of his horoscope that she doesn’t pay attention to the personal section. Hilarity ensues when these star-crossed signals result in Abhimanyu pursuing Sitara romantically, without realizing that the ‘signs’ are engineered coincidences in her quest to get promoted.
Soon, Sitara is faced with choosing what she really wants-a career progression or true love. She must chart her own course even if what she has in mind may not be what the stars ordained. Written in the Stars is a romantic comedy about life, love and whether the biggest things in life are the choices you make or what destiny has in store for you.
Written in the Stars by Divya Anand is an office romantic comedy set in Bangalore that is relatable, endearing and makes you laugh at the right places.
Sitara, our protagonist is a smart, likeable, ambitious and strong-wiled women who works as a product manager in a start-up. She is a hit amongst her friends and is pretty easy going, but when her promotion is threatened by her colleague Dhruv, Sitara decides to take things in her hand and makes some irrevocable decisions.
And to her luck, a new marketing head – Abhimanyu Singh joins the Company who is extremely good-looking, intelligent, attentive and is astrology-obsessed. When Sitara learns about this, she starts taking help from the stars. Soon her meetings, presentations and launches all align with the dates beneficial to him. When luck favours love isn’t to be left behind! Abhimanyu feels Sitara is his shining star. But does Sitara feel the same? And even if she does, what will she choose? Read the book to find out!
What I really loved about this book is that, it is the perfect blend of drama, romance, corporate competition with astrology. Also, I absolutely enjoyed the trivia quiz which made the book more interesting. The writing is absolutely lucid and light. If you love light rom-com books or are looking for a quick read, I would absolutely recommend Divya Anand’s second book Written in the Stars and you can buy the book here.
My rating for the book is 4.5/5