Last Minute Love by Romi Moondi

Romi Moondi is a hilarious chick lit writer that I feel fortunate that I have come to know. Year of the Chick was an introduction to Romi Narindra, and the second in the series, Last Minute Love, picks right back up. Romi is still talking occasionally to the guy she met online but who is geographically unavailable, her parents are still trying to arrange-marry her, and Romi still feels a bit lost. But finally abandoning the search for Mr. Right and figuring out what truly makes Romi happy sets her on a path that finally gives Romi hope that maybe self-happiness is just around the corner.

The second in the series is just as fast-paced as the first, and a very enjoyable read. I don’t feel it’s absolutely necessary to read the first in order to read this one, but I definitely recommend it, just because it’s such a fun book. I loved following Romi’s journey and seeing her move on from being a bit man-crazy to searching for self-discovery. I’m fairly positive I’m correct when I say there will be a third in the series, and I will be watching for it!

[Rating: 4]

 

**Everyone who leaves a comment on Romi’s tour page will be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift card! Anyone who purchases their copy of Last Minute Love before October 8 and sends their receipt to Samantha (at) ChickLitPlus (dot) com, will get five bonus entries.**

Connect with Romi!

Facebook Author Page: http://www.facebook.com/RomiMoondi
Twitter: http:///www.twitter.com/romimoondi
Blog: http://romimoondi.wordpress.com

Buy the Book!

Last-Minute Love (on Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/Last-Minute-Love-Year-Chick-ebook/dp/B0089IG9BY/ref=la_B005W65KWK_1_3_title_0_main?ie=UTF8&qid=1347224655&sr=1-3
Last-Minute Love (on B&N): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-minute-love-romi-moondi/1111816576?ean=2940033288311
(Also available for Kobo and iTunes!)
Additional note: “Year of the Chick” which is book one in the series, is available for free at all e-tailers!

On Tour: Last Minute Love by Romi Moondi

Romi will be on tour September 17- October 8 with her chick lit novel Last Minute Love

Future Tour: Last Minute Love by Romi Moondi

Romi will be on tour September 17-October 8 with her chick lit novel Last Minute Love

What’s a girl to do when she meets the Internet man of her dreams, he’s better than she expected, but he lives an ocean away? And let’s not forget her parents,who are trying to lock her up in arranged-marriage doom…

In this fast-paced story of culture clash and romantic pursuits, there’s a big fat Indian wedding, the struggle to keep a long-distance flame alive, and an unexpected mystery man who could set a new course in motion.

All the while, our heroine abandons what was once an all-consuming man-search, which helps her remember the person she used to be, and the person she hopes to become; the history-loving nerd, the hopeless romantic, and the emerging author with dreams of ditching the corporate rat race.

This is the book of living in the moment, making the grand gesture, and putting it all on the line. This is when Romi Narindra comes alive…

Please visit CLP Blog Toursfor the full tour schedule! **Anyone who purchases their copy of Last Minute Love before October 8 and sends their receipt to Samantha (at) ChickLitPlus (dot) com, will get five entries in a drawing to win a $10 Amazon gift card!!**

Blog Tour Sign Up: Last Minute Love by Romi Moondi

Romi will be on tour in September with her chick lit novel Last Minute Love, the sequel to Year of the Chick! Please use the sign up form below if you would like to be included. eBook copies can be provided, and Romi will also be available for a guest post or interview, and book excerpts can be requested. I will contact everyone chosen to participate. Thank you!

What’s a girl to do when she meets the Internet man of her dreams, he’s better than she expected, but he lives an ocean away? And let’s not forget her parents, who with the help of a meddling auntie, are trying to lock her up in arranged-marriage doom.

That’s where we left off with Romi in “Year of the Chick.”

In book two the saga continues, with more culture clash and adventure than ever before. There’s a big fat Indian wedding, the struggle to keep a long-distance flame alive, and a totally unexpected mystery man that could set a new course in motion.

All the while, Romi leaves the neurosis of her obsessive man-search from “Year of the Chick” behind, which helps her remember the person she used to be, and the person she hopes to become. The history-loving nerd, the hopeless romantic, and the emerging author with dreams of ditching the corporate rat race.

This is the book of living in the moment, making the grand gesture, and putting it all on the line. This is book two, where Romi Narindra comes alive…

DISCLAIMER: this book contains occasional profanities

**Year of the Chick is now only 99 cents for your Kindle!**

**Romi’s tour is now full. Thank you to everyone who signed up!**

Year of the Chick by Romi Moondi

I have gotten to know Romi Moondi fairly well through email after she signed up with CLP Blog Tours, and might even call her a friend – internet friend, but a friend I enjoy chatting with nonetheless. I could tell from her emails that Year of the Chick was going to be a riot, and I was not wrong. Moondi lets her personality shine through the pages, and I could definitely picture her as the main character. Which, um, she sort of is. Read her blog – no seriously, read her blog, it’s super hysterical. Anyway, the story follows MC Romi Narindra, an Indian living in Canada whose traditional parents try to arrange an, er, arranged marriage for Romi and her older sister. Romi, being the non-traditionalist she is, does not want anything to do with an arranged marriage. Year of the Chick follows Romi as she searches for love her own – including being set up with friends and internet dating. She gives herself twelve months to find a man…or be forced to marry a stranger her parents set her up with.

This is probably the fourth book I have read in two months that features an Indian heroine, so I am slowly getting more accustomed to the traditions – such as the whole family living together under one roof. I loved Romi’s spirit and how she wanted to hold out for true love, but sometimes her insistence on finding love made me want to shake her. At times she could be that clingy girl who wouldn’t realize she was with the wrong guy, but it was fun and interesting to watch how she got into situations and got herself out of them. The relationship between Romi and her sister was hysterical, kind of sad, but still super funny how they addressed each – thinks lots of profanity. The ending is definitely a cliff hanger, and I can’t wait to see what comes next for Romi and her love life!

[Rating: 4]

On Tour: Year of the Chick by Romi Moondi

Romi will be on tour January 16-February 6 with her chick lit novel Year of the Chick

An awkward family homecoming at Christmas.

A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience.

The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom.

And that’s just the first two chapters.

In “Year of the Chick,” Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. This is a difficult task in a world where self-consciousness is at an all-time high, and dating experience at an all-time low.

Severely lacking in seductive skills and uninspired by her corporate job, Romi turns to what she loves, by writing about her quest to find love on her brand new blog.

From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-brow creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. Just when giving up seems like the thing to do, she meets a fellow writer unexpectedly.

On the Internet.

So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that’s not as creepy as “To Catch a Predator”?

Time will tell in the “year of the chick,” a twelve-month quest to find love….tick-tock.

Please visit CLP Blog Tours for all the reviews, interview, and guest posts. **Everyone who leaves a comment on Romi’s tour page will be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift card! If you purchase your copy of Year of the Chick  before February 6 and send your receipt to Samantha (at) ChickLitPlus (dot) com, you will get five bonus entries

Connect with Romi!

Facebook author page: http://www.facebook.com/RomiMoondi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/romimoondi 

Brief bio:
I am Canadian, and here are some strange personal facts:

-I wore denim-top-to-bottom in high school (there is a direct inverse relationship between how much denim I wore and how few tongues were launched down my throat at school dances…or anywhere in high school at all).
-I’m continually baffled by that Malaysian baby whose father let him smoke two packs of cigarettes a day. That baby had so many fat rolls, and I thought cigarettes were supposed to be slimming.
-I always hated those insufferable couples who would cuddle and make out on the subway…until I became half of one. But now I’m back to being none of one so I hate them again.

Buy the book!

http://www.amazon.com/Year-of-the-Chick-ebook/dp/B005ZY7DG0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1326240962&sr=8-6

Future Tour: Year of the Chick by Romi Moondi

Romi will be on tour January 16-February 6 with her novel Year of the Chick

An awkward family homecoming at Christmas.

A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience.

The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom.

And that’s just the first two chapters.

In “Year of the Chick,” Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. This is a difficult task in a world where self-consciousness is at an-all-time high, and dating experience at an all-time low.

Severely lacking in seductive skills and uninspired by her corporate job, Romi turns to what she loves, by writing about her quest to find love on her brand new blog.

From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-browed creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. But hope floats again when she meets a fellow writer unexpectedly.

On the Internet.

So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that’s not as creepy as “To Catch a Predator?”

Time will tell in the “year of the chick,” a twelve-month quest to find love.

Tick-tock.

Please visit CLP Blog Tours for the full tour schedule! **Anyone who purchases their copy of Year of the Chick between November 17-February 6 and sends their receipt to Samantha (at) ChickLitPlus (dot) com, will get five entries in a drawing to win a $10 Amazon gift card!!**

Mid-Week Mailbox- November 16

In My Mailbox: Mid-Week- November 16

 

Title: Year of the Chick

Author: Romi Moondi

Received: Via CLP Blog Tours

Synopsis: An awkward family homecoming at Christmas.

A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience.

The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom.

And that’s just the first two chapters.

In “Year of the Chick,” Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. This is a difficult task in a world where self-consciousness is at an-all-time high, and dating experience at an all-time low.

Severely lacking in seductive skills and uninspired by her corporate job, Romi turns to what she loves, by writing about her quest to find love on her brand new blog.

From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-browed creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. But hope floats again when she meets a fellow writer unexpectedly.

On the Internet.

So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that’s not as creepy as “To Catch a Predator?”

Time will tell in the “year of the chick,” a twelve-month quest to find love.

Tick-tock.

 

Title: Here

Author: Denise Grover Swank

Received: Via CLP Blog Tours

Synopsis: Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before.

Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he’s volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can’t ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she’s been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he’s really from.

 

Title: Build a Man

Author: Talli Roland

Received: From Talli Roland

Synopsis: How far would you go to create the perfect partner?

Slave to the rich, rude and deluded, cosmetic surgery receptionist Serenity Holland longs for the day she’s a high-flying tabloid reporter. Unfortunately, every pitch she sends out disappears like her clients’ liposuctioned fat, never to be seen again. Then she meets Jeremy Ritchie — the hang-dog man determined to be Britain’s Most Eligible Bachelor by making himself over from head to toe and everything in between — giving Serenity a story no editor could resist.

With London’s biggest tabloid on board and her very own column tracking Jeremy’s progress from dud to dude, Serenity is determined to be a success, even going undercover to gain intimate access to Jeremy’s life. But when Jeremy’s surgery goes drastically wrong and Serenity is ordered to cover all the car-crash goriness, she must decide how far she really will go for her dream job.

 

Title: Stay Tuned

Author: Lauren Clark

Received: Via CLP Blog Tours

Synopsis: What happens when a #1 news team becomes the top story instead of reporting it? For TV producer Melissa Moore, crisis management comes with the job. From employee disputes to her high-maintenance boss, there’s not much she hasn’t seen or can’t handle. But no one—including Melissa—expects a fistfight during the ten o’clock news. When sexy-but-crazy Alyssa Andrews lands a punch on her co-anchor’s face, Melissa jumps on set to help. She’s determined that WSGA’s reputation won’t be destroyed on her watch. Both anchors are fired and Melissa agrees to fill in—but not before polishing her look from haircut to heels. While the new Melissa wows WSGA viewers, her personal life starts fraying at the edges. Melissa’s husband is away more than he’s home, leaving cryptic Post-it notes in his wake. Her mother’s antics spiral out of control at the nursing home and a stalker decides Melissa is her next target. What happens next? Stay Tuned to find out…

 

Title: Blue Straggler

Author: Kathy Lynn Harris

Received: By Laura Pepper Wu

Synopsis: A blue straggler is a star that has an anomalous blue color and appears to be disconnected from those stars that surround it.

But this is not a story about astronomy.

Bailey Miller is “disconnected” from the cluster of her rural south Texas family. She has never quite fit in and now in her early 30s, she finds herself struggling with inner turmoil and a series of bad choices in her life.

Blog Tour Sign Up: Year of the Chick by Romi Moondi

Romi Moondi will be on tour in January with her chick lit novel Year of the Chick. Please use the sign up form below if you would like to be included. Please note this book will be available worldwide as an eBook, or for US/Canada residents as a print copy. You can select your preference below. Romi would also be available for guest posts or interviews. I will contact all bloggers that are chosen for this tour. Thank you!

Romy Narindra’s parents ditched the blazing heat of India in the seventies. Then why didn’t the “India” ditch them? She doesn’t have a clue, but as a self-sufficient woman in her late twenties, she would love to tell her parents where to shove their arranged marriage plans. What stops her is the threat of disownment, and a wallop of pressure from Toronto’s growing Indian community.

But what about love?

Romy knows love from a three-month stint where she kept a guy happy and somehow kept her parents in the dark. Of course he’s with someone else now while she pines away at home, but at the time it was as warm as microwaved apple pie. So when Romy’s parents stage a public weigh-in, then offer her a year to lose the flab before they put her up on MarriageMatch.com, she knows the time has come to find her one true love.

For months she goes through vodka, wingmen and tubes of sparkly lip-gloss, until at last she finds a man while they’re both busy surfing.

Internet surfing.

He’s her sandy-haired prince who lives in Barcelona, and he needs to fall in love with her fast so he can save her from her life.  What he may not fall in love with are her pressures for a secret visit, and psychotic mentions of marriage.

Either way she’d rather jump into a path of oncoming rickshaws, than surrender her future to a freak from the arranged-marriage classified ads.

So to catch a cyber guy for keeps, or to openly date and face the fury of her parents?

It’ll have to be one before the twelve months are out, in this rollercoaster “year of the chick”…

**Romi’s tour is now full. Thank you to everyone who signed up!**