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Love Craves Cardamom
by Aashna Avachat
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thank you to Joy Revolution and Get Underlined for the free book. These opinions are my own.
This book is part of the Love in Translation series. It's a really fascinating series in which each book is set in a different location with different characters and by different authors. The stories all stand alone but are tied together by the three female main characters being friends who go to different places to study abroad. I haven't read Love Requires Chocolate yet, but I grabbed a copy and added it to my TBR as soon as I finished this.
Love Craves Cardamom features Archi, who spends her summer in Rajasthan, India, where her parents are from. She has an incredible internship working at an art museum and gets to curate a collection. Seriously, I would read this book even without any romance at all. I loved learning about the art. The book wove in amazing facts about the legacy of colonialism and the theft of art, as Archi curated a post-colonial exhibit. I was incredibly impressed by how deft the storytelling was, and I really wish I could actually see the art described.
On her way to the art museum, Archi runs into Shiv, who turns out to be the royal gardener for the palace property where the museum is located. Or is he? It's a fun royal romance, age appropriate to any YA reader.
I quite enjoyed the chapter titles that pull quotes from the upcoming chapter out of context. They always made me pause. This was great.
This book is part of the Love in Translation series. It's a really fascinating series in which each book is set in a different location with different characters and by different authors. The stories all stand alone but are tied together by the three female main characters being friends who go to different places to study abroad. I haven't read Love Requires Chocolate yet, but I grabbed a copy and added it to my TBR as soon as I finished this.
Love Craves Cardamom features Archi, who spends her summer in Rajasthan, India, where her parents are from. She has an incredible internship working at an art museum and gets to curate a collection. Seriously, I would read this book even without any romance at all. I loved learning about the art. The book wove in amazing facts about the legacy of colonialism and the theft of art, as Archi curated a post-colonial exhibit. I was incredibly impressed by how deft the storytelling was, and I really wish I could actually see the art described.
On her way to the art museum, Archi runs into Shiv, who turns out to be the royal gardener for the palace property where the museum is located. Or is he? It's a fun royal romance, age appropriate to any YA reader.
I quite enjoyed the chapter titles that pull quotes from the upcoming chapter out of context. They always made me pause. This was great.