Queen B’s Decree: Full disclosure—I didn’t finish Sari, Not Sari by Sonya Singh.
I couldn’t connect with the main Heroine, Manny. She’s the CEO of her company Break Up, which basically drafts break-up emails and texts and sends them to your significant other. It was a little confusing; why was I reading a romance novel about a woman who breaks other couples up for a living?
But there’s more about Manny I couldn’t get into. She’s an Indian-American who’s parents fully embraced the American dream, thus she seems to have no cultural identity. I, as a white woman, felt like I knew more about her culture than she did. And so the way some of the POC characters were written, it was as if they were caricatures of stereotypes.
I couldn’t really get beyond that so the romance hadn’t occurred before I quit. But I must mention that both main characters, Manny and Sammy, were both in other relationships before I quit, so the one week where they are together doesn’t seem sufficiently long enough to find everlasting love.
Sadly, I was not impressed and didn’t finish through the end.
Book: Sari, Not Sari by Sonya Singh
Series: standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Hotness: mild salsa
Plot Devices/Tropes: fake relationship