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brittanymariereads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent
arayapapaya's review
3.5
[CW: death of a parent, grief]
Graphic: Death of parent and Grief
beccaand's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Grief, and Medical content
megwilli's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent
tanvi45's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, and Death of parent
amandalorianxo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I found it difficult to believe Kareena was a lawyer, we hardly see her in court or in her office. Also, this woman is 30 (my age) and acts as if she’s in high school. Has she ever been in a relationship before? If not, that should have been stated somewhere because I was getting tired of her … child ish naive behavior & acting as if the BARE MINIMUM that Prem did should be bowed on. It shouldn’t. Prem also irritated me. How are you going to call someone Rina honey when she specifically said (aloud) several times not to call her that? Don’t even get me started on calling his penis Charlie. Sharma explains that white people call them meat sticks so why can’t Prem use his own euphemism ? Yeah, no …. not a pass. Some editing that didn’t get notified (mis spelling and plot inconsistencies) also irked me. I really hope Sharma’s second book (the one with Bobbi & Benjamin in the center) is better in terms of plot consistency, adult like characters and less white catering & more Desi forward.
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent
jackiepreston's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Cursing, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Death
readwithde's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Cursing, and Grief
Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Medical content
Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Colonisation, and Panic attacks/disorders
rachaelm13's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I don’t know how I feel about this book.
I found there to be quite a bit of toxic, red flag behaviours between the two main characters and some general immaturity maybe? But that is a product of how they grew up and was probably intentional.
Loved the diversity and how old ideas and misogyny were called out.
But I found some of the writing to be a bit like a poor translation almost? Like someone put a whole book into google translate and didn’t proof read it. I don’t know maybe it was my ebook copy? But I got it from the library so I don’t think so. There were sometimes words missing, or simple proof read type things that were just missed. (And I’m not talking about character dialogue here, criticizing characters who are multilingual, I mean the rest of the book)
There were some parts that seemed a bit choppy and some references to what a character was doing that just weren’t correct, like back to the google translate thing where a character would be lying down and then in the next sentence it would say something like “she leaned against the wall” kind of abrupt like wait, when did she sit up she was just working on her car? Thats maybe a poor example but its the one thats coming to mind right now.
Loved the story premise, the writing had something to work on but wasn’t horrible, I found the main male character annoying at times and there were a couple iffy consent places for me personally but consent is BIG for me so I don’t know. I wish we would have seen Kareenas job! It sounded so cool but it was mentioned like twice and we never got a scene of her actually at work. Overall not too many triggering topics in this book which was nice and a solid little romance!
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Toxic relationship
bookfreak95's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Moderate: Death of parent