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elenajohansen 's review for:
A Bollywood Affair
by Sonali Dev
DID NOT FINISH: 28%
Listen, I get that the tone of the book is trying to invoke the over-the-top quality of Bollywood. I could forgive a lot of the cheesy dialogue and thin characters and improbable situations I've already encountered in the book because, while I'm not by any means a Bollywood super fan, I've seen enough and know enough to understand what I was signing up for by reading this at all.
But if you stack poor writing quality on top of that? I'm out. I'm not enjoying this premise or these characters enough to reread sentences constantly trying to parse them because of missing punctuation or dangling clauses.
Even if I could make myself keep going through this poorly-edited mess, I'm not confident the story is going anyplace good. Mili is the worst kind of helpless damsel, and Samir is an unrelenting asshole. I know the point of this romance will be to redeem him with the quirky helpless girl he can't help falling for, and I'm not into it. It's hard to share Mili's perspective of Samir being kind, when we know he's lying to and manipulating her, even if his outward actions of helping her are kindness.
I don't want these characters to get together, I don't believe a reasonable happy ending is possible for them given the circumstances of the plot, so there's no point in forcing myself to continue reading.
But if you stack poor writing quality on top of that? I'm out. I'm not enjoying this premise or these characters enough to reread sentences constantly trying to parse them because of missing punctuation or dangling clauses.
Even if I could make myself keep going through this poorly-edited mess, I'm not confident the story is going anyplace good. Mili is the worst kind of helpless damsel, and Samir is an unrelenting asshole. I know the point of this romance will be to redeem him with the quirky helpless girl he can't help falling for, and I'm not into it. It's hard to share Mili's perspective of Samir being kind, when we know he's lying to and manipulating her, even if his outward actions of helping her are kindness.
I don't want these characters to get together, I don't believe a reasonable happy ending is possible for them given the circumstances of the plot, so there's no point in forcing myself to continue reading.