Books by Sonali Dev

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The Vibrant Years

The story of three generations of women play out in Sonali Dev’s The Vibrant Years, a lovely comedy featuring personal growth, hidden secrets, and family connections – and some of Dev’s narrative pitfalls. The overall result is definitely worthwhile but is perhaps a tad overlong. The Florid ...

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The Emma Project

Sonali Dev finishes up her The Rajes Austen-inspired series with The Emma Project. The tale of Vansh Raje, the youngest son of the clan, this book is all about falling in love and figuring out how that works when you’ve never believed in it before. This is not a stand-alone volume. Readers will ...

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Incense and Sensibility

Sonali Dev delivers a charming, poignant love story in this third offering in her The Rajes Austen-inspired series. You do not have to read the others to enjoy Incense and Sensibility. Yash Raje, California’s first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always looked at his privilege as ...

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Recipe for Persuasion

Recipe for Persuasion is Sonali Dev’s latest Jane Austen inspired novel. A sweet second chance at love tale, this delicious romance will have you savoring every second you spend reading it. This is book two of The Raje Series but you don’t need to read book one - Pride, Prejudice and Other Fl ...

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Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors

Neurosurgeon Trisha Raje descends from Indian royalty.  Her father – now a surgeon himself – was once a prince, and he gave up his royal lineage in an attempt at assimilating when he married their one-time child star mother. Due to their hard-to-please dad’s influence, the Raje children all c ...

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A Distant Heart

I have not read Sonali Dev before, but I’ve heard such wonderful things about her books that I was eager to start by reading A Distant Heart. Her voice is so unique and the story she has woven is so beautiful and emotionally wrenching that I'm still thinking of the people in her story days after ...

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A Change of Heart

A Change of Heart is my second Sonali Dev novel;  I enjoyed The Bollywood Bride, and had high hopes for this one.  Unfortunately, the misleading categorization (women’s fiction) and my assumption that like its predecessor (which is linked to this story), it was a romance, left me confused about ...

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The Bollywood Bride

When one of my friends got married the officiant included as part of the ceremony his three secrets to a happy marriage: communicate, communicate, communicate. I would say that is the secret to a happy relationship with anyone and it is something I wish the hero and heroine of this book had learned ...

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A Bollywood Affair

There are times when I'm glad a particular book I'm reading is a review book. Why do I say that? Well, some books just don't start off well but if I get past the first few chapters, I end up feeling very glad that I read the whole thing. A Bollywood Affair is such a book. As a reviewer, I had to sti ...