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A review by accidentalspaceexplorer
Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
emotional
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
4.25
This book wasn't what I was expecting. For one, having the mom's story from her POV scattered throughout the story. I thought it made her mom's story much more poignant, although I had a hard time with the time jumps and what the author chose to leave out until the dramatic reveal. It did also make the healing of that relationship more believable.
For another, I've read Persuasion, and while you can see the bare bones of that here, it's dual POV, which makes it way more obvious how both sides feel about each other. However, I really enjoyed Rico's POV, as I thought that his slow grappling with his very complex feelings was interesting.
The key word there is slow, and I thought the book did a really good job of illustrating them slowly changing their minds and re-thinking the assumptions they'd made. However, in the ending, most of that was lost in a mad rush to the end, both in the heroine-mom relationship and in the hero-heroine relationship. I found that really rushed and kind of unrealistic, that they would suddenly decide to go all in.
Overall, though, I had an enjoyable time reading this, and I'd recommend it! You don't even have to have read Persuasion.
For another, I've read Persuasion, and while you can see the bare bones of that here, it's dual POV, which makes it way more obvious how both sides feel about each other. However, I really enjoyed Rico's POV, as I thought that his slow grappling with his very complex feelings was interesting.
The key word there is slow, and I thought the book did a really good job of illustrating them slowly changing their minds and re-thinking the assumptions they'd made. However, in the ending, most of that was lost in a mad rush to the end, both in the heroine-mom relationship and in the hero-heroine relationship. I found that really rushed and kind of unrealistic, that they would suddenly decide to go all in.
Overall, though, I had an enjoyable time reading this, and I'd recommend it! You don't even have to have read Persuasion.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicide
Moderate: Rape and Sexism