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Updating the classics

Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

October 5, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Retelling (modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion) CBR16 Bingo: Bollywood (set in Canada with desi protagonists) The absolutely last place Nada Syed wants to be is the big annual Muslim convention in downtown Toronto. She is nearly 30 years old, single and lives at home with her parents and two brothers. If she goes to the convention, there is a high chance that she’ll run into her old mentor, formerly her mother’s best friend. She might also run into her mentor’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: BIPOC, bollywood, Canada, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Desi representation, Malin, Much Ado About Nada, Persuasion, retelling, Uzma Jalaluddin

Malin's CBR16 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: BIPOC, bollywood, Canada, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Desi representation, Malin, Much Ado About Nada, Persuasion, retelling, Uzma Jalaluddin ·
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Difficult Women, Trauma, and Romance (Bingos #4 & 5)

The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel

October 25, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Trouble with Hating You is not your typical Romance read, even though Patel is working within and against established tropes, and I liked it better for it. This is definitely an enemies to lovers romance (the title pretty much announces it) and in it we have Liya Thakkar,  a happily single successful biochemical engineer, who has a very strained relationship with her parents and has been very clear that she is not interested in being set up with a potential spouse. The moment she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Desi representation, orange, read women, Sajni Patel, The Trouble With Hating You, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr12bingo, Desi representation, orange, read women, Sajni Patel, The Trouble With Hating You, we need diverse books ·
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