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A review by analenegrace
Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Thanks so much to the publisher and Netgalley for an e-arc of this book.
I really liked the first 1/3 of this book, but unfortunately, the middle dragged out a lot, and then our MCs got together in a brief chapter that was very confusing. I was expecting a slower burn because of how the book had been going so their first hook-up came out of nowhere and needed to make more sense.
I really liked Dev and Naomi and thought they were good characters whose chemistry was growing, it just wasn't there yet for me when they got together. Their romance felt much more tell than show.
The other plot, putting together the remodel of the Bazaar to Cafe, was interesting as we saw Dev's mother Gia develop agency in her store, but again, much more tell than show.
Overall, this book tried to do too many things and ended up struggling to show us any of them. I simply wanted more from the entirety of this book, and the tropes here just didn't work. I enjoyed the look into Canadian Bengali culture, though, and would be interested in more from this author with better editing.
I really liked the first 1/3 of this book, but unfortunately, the middle dragged out a lot, and then our MCs got together in a brief chapter that was very confusing. I was expecting a slower burn because of how the book had been going so their first hook-up came out of nowhere and needed to make more sense.
I really liked Dev and Naomi and thought they were good characters whose chemistry was growing, it just wasn't there yet for me when they got together. Their romance felt much more tell than show.
The other plot, putting together the remodel of the Bazaar to Cafe, was interesting as we saw Dev's mother Gia develop agency in her store, but again, much more tell than show.
Overall, this book tried to do too many things and ended up struggling to show us any of them. I simply wanted more from the entirety of this book, and the tropes here just didn't work. I enjoyed the look into Canadian Bengali culture, though, and would be interested in more from this author with better editing.