A review by thatsoneforthebooks
Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev

3.0

I left this with a lot of mixed feelings. The characters were well-developed with lots of back story and I wanted to know more. With that said, I found it exceptionally frustrating that we kept seeing all of that back story and the main characters weren't communicating it to each other. I suppose that was because it was trying to follow a Persuasion-esque plot line, but yet, the plot would have been more engaging if they'd just started opening open sooner. I did appreciate the Bay Area setting and the serious discussion of issues the characters faced, but found their leap into spilling all their secrets at the end to be not so compelling.