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blakeandbooks'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
3.5
Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, and Vomit
Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
onegalonelife27's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Racism and Vomit
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Rape and Colonisation
zombiezami's review against another edition
4.75
My one complaint is that there werenāt any detailed scenes of the protagonist meeting her extended family in India. We just hear a summary after she returns to the US. I would have liked that to be more fleshed out.
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Infertility, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Alcohol
Minor: Death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Colorism, casteismthereadinghammock's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I enjoyed Nicki and Sam--I loved Diya and kind of wished we'd gotten a bit more of her, btu totally understand why she was off page a bit more. Weddings are hard enough--let along a wedding with 1,500 guests!!! Nicki's struggle to be the "perfect Indian daughter" was relatable enough (again, not speaking as a south Asian person, but as a woman who was raised with high expectations even when your parents didn't actually enforce those kinds of expectations). It's like holding the weight of the world on your shoulders and when you finally start dismantling the yoke you've given yourself, the weightlessness is freeing, but the freedom is overwhelming too.
Nicki still has a lot of growing up to do, and by the end she was starting to come down from her head in the clouds a bit, but she still felt a bit immature for being almost 30. I'm glad she and Sam were able to work it out and were seeing where things led.
Moderate: Classism
Minor: Sexual harassment and Colonisation
jazhandz's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Cute book, the obligatory third-act conflict felt rushed and didnāt feel like it was resolved in a satisfactory way but the first two-thirds were delightful.
Graphic: Vomit
Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content
Colorism (moderate)lashette's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Sexual harassment and Classism
There's a scene where the mc gets stalked and catcalled by strange men when alone. Another where a woman says something derogatory about her darker skin tone. And one where other women harass a server because they are of a different class. The mc either yells or cries in each of these situations.kbairbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Sexual harassment
kylieqrada's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Vomit
Moderate: Racism, Rape, and Sexual harassment
meganpbennett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Vomit
Minor: Sexual harassment
courtneyfalling's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Also liked how this introduced warm, spunky older role models (I would read a whole book of Auntie Aasha's escapades) and took on colorism, casteism, and the isolation of the first-gen immigrant kid experience. It sometimes got overly heavy-handed and cushy with Niki asking folks the meaning of Diwali... like it was pandering to readers without any previous knowledge or celebration of Diwali, or trying really hard to offer some basic end-all, be-all education on Diwali, that honestly came across better in subtler moments and in allowing readers to do their own research. But to be totally fair I'm not sure I've seen any other romance set during Diwali get this level of hype and I get the impulse and publishing incentives to add these notes! And I really hope this ushers in more romances set during non-white and non-Christian holidays. It absolutely met my expectations and was so cute :)
Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment