Farah heron – Cannonball Read 17

Christmas in Toronto

A Little Holiday Fling by Farah Heron

October 21, 2025 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Farah Heron’s A Little Holiday Fling is a lovely secularly Christmas romance. As a secular Christmas celebrator, I appreciated both Ruby’s position of finding joy and fun in the season and Rashid’s frustration with the consumerism and the hegemony of it all. Ruby and Rashid are both Muslim and they’ve grown up in Canada and the UK respectively, so they have a complex relationship with the dominant religious holiday. A Little Holiday Fling deals lightly and gently with some heavy topics, giving depth to the characters […]

Nikhil preened. “Are you surprised that Mahreen Kamal can create a fashion icon?”

Just Playing House by Farah Heron

July 1, 2024 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Happy Canada Day! I read Farah Heron’s Just Playing House while I was laid low by a stomach virus last week. It was lovely and perfect to read about a hot man taking care of the woman he’s had a crush on for years. There are a lot of reasons I like reading romance. Reading this book at this moment was all about wish fulfillment. Someone who wants to care take, yes, I want to read that when I feel terrible. Someone who has a […]

Jana belted out the lyrics with feeling, emotion, and, more than anything else, joy. She let go of all her inhibitions, didn’t think at all about how terrible she sounded or what the aunties and uncles were thinking right now.

Jana Goes Wild by Farah Heron

April 11, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I started Jana Goes Wild and then decided I needed to go back and read Kamila Knows Best, a book I own, but hadn’t read. Reading the two back to back was a great decision. Kamila Knows Best is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, with Jana and Anil in the Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill roles. Jana Goes Wild, set some 5 years later, is the resolution of their story. If you haven’t read Kamila yet, you don’t absolutely need to, but you should […]

south asian P&P adaptations never really do it for me :(

Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron

May 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Here we have an Emma retelling, by Farah Heron of Accidentally Engaged fame. I admitted did not finish said book, but I am well documented as reading any and all Jane Austen fic that comes my way so here we were, reading a South Asian retelling of the seminal Austen work. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress […]

A desi retelling of Austen’s Emma

Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron

January 6, 2022 by Pooja 6 Comments

Kamila has a pretty great life – a job she loves, friends she adores and who adore her, a wonderful dog, and of course Rohan, her childhood friend who’s always been by her side. Nothing needs to change. Right? Right? I adored this book. Partly because I love Austen’s Emma and enjoyed picking out its echoes here, but what sold me most on this book are the characters. Kamila is a heroine I loved rooting for, one who felt authentic with her joy and her […]

Delicious food, family shenanigans, and drunk cooking show audition videos

Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

April 17, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

Ok, this book is absolutely adorable. Delicious food, family shenanigans, drunk cooking show audition videos, fake engagement, sourdough-related antics – it’s got it all. One of my favorite things about the fake-relationship trope is when authors use it to explore how and why the characters keep secrets, and it was done masterfully. When I started this book, I hadn’t realized that Reena’s best friend is the main character from The Chai Factor, which I haven’t read, but this worked fine for me as a standalone. Reena […]

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