Meg's Reviews > The Singles Table

Another novel from Sara Desai’s Patel Family, the Singles Table makes up for the giant weddings we didn’t get to attend in 2020 and 2021.

Lawyer Zara Patel loves a good challenge, and she’s trying to give her Aunties a run for their money this wedding season by matching perfect couples. She won’t look for a match for herself, of course, because she’s career oriented and isn’t interested in anything serious. When she meets the arrogant Jay Donovan at a paintballing bachelor/bachelorette party, she makes him her next mission to match. Except their “information gathering sessions” are oddly akin to dates and they have an undeniable chemistry.

This is my favorite of Sara Desai’s books to date. It has snappy humor, the perfect meddling Aunties, and antagonistic enemies to lovers who can’t see what’s in front of them. It falters a little bit with a jumpy plotline, which I thought may have been part of my reading mood, but saw a few others say something similar. Zara is my favorite of the Desai’s heroines - eschewing corporate law because she’s found her niche law firm, dressing as a Zombie, standing out in a crowd. Jay’s past and his push for success makes him a perfect match for Zara. But I almost threw my kindle across the room at the epilogue, and it definitely lowered my overall impression of the book.