romance
In Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev, Trisha is a
neurosurgeon whose patient, Emma, has a brother named DJ who has dropped
everything and moved to California to take care of Emma as she fights a brain
tumor.
This was one of those romances in which the damaged people overshadow
the romance itself. I loved the beginning, disliked the middle, and accepted
the ending. Truthfully, though, I found
the novel infuriating most of the time. I
appreciated the quirkiness and sense of humor of several characters. But Trisha was such a mess that it made me
squirm. She was unable to communicate
effectively due to her own mental immaturity, her upbringing in a fairly closed
family, and her family’s inability to talk through forgiveness and blame.
Trisha’s and DJ’s interactions often exhausted me. It was painful to watch them
misinterpret each other over and over and over. The situations in which they found
themselves, due to their own or other irrational characters’ actions, often
felt contrived. It was a comedy of errors. The “bad guy” was pretty ridiculous
too.
So, while tension often makes for a good story this one was
too over the top for me. Given the title, I had been expecting something a bit
less crazy. Having said all that, I didn't dislike it. I just couldn't see past many irritations.
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