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This was a really adorable retelling of Taming of the Shrew. I really liked Kareena's character and how strong and independent she was, even if her family was awful to her. Her family sucked. I didn't like them at all. They treated her like crap, were so rude, and took advantage of her. Especially her sister who was a spoiled brat. I wish she would have stood up to them more.

I really enjoyed reading about the friendships (both male and female) and think they were one of the best parts of the book. I also really liked how we got the flashbacks to the first night they met and the banter of the aunties.

I found Prem to be really immature. When he was admitting to himself that he loved her, but wouldn't say it outloud, it was akin to him having a temper tantrum. I felt like the author tried to show growth in his character too fast, and it just fell a little flat.

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rachaelm13's review

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

Well, Charlie is a new one 😬

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!

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adventuresinfictionland's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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ashleycmms's review

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challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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