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Wow. What a wonderful retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Only the Mr. Darcy character is gender swapped and instead of being an upperclass nobleman, we have a young surgeon whose family is descended from Indian royalty (Trisha Raje) I initially didn't like that Dev had focused on the Mark Darcy character first, but I get why she did it. Eventually we get our Elizabeth Bennett (DJ Caine) and he was fantastic. Dev follows the same plot though modernizes it for readers. And she even takes a look at black live matters, feminism and rape culture that I was not expecting in this one. I maybe choked up a bit a few times. No spoilers, but I can say that I am excited to see if Dev follows Trisha's brother (Yash) in the next one. I really really want it. Cause, I am all about revenge, I wanted to knock the block off the Wickman character we get in this one. I was pretty much dream casting this book from beginning to end.

"Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors" follows 30 something year old neurosurgeon, Trisha Raje. Though Trisha's family is pretty freaking spectacular, her mother is an ex-Bollywood performer, her father is descended from Indian royalty and is a doctor. Her older brother was Attorney General in California and is now running for governor. However, Trisha feels pushed out of her family. An incident occurred when she was 17 that affected her brother and caused a scandal that was hushed up. Trisha though finally decides she's tired of being on the outside of her family and wants to help her brother get elected. However, an old enemy rears her head again and Trisha deals with that, a secret her sister wants her to keep from everyone, and her growing feelings for chef DJ Caine.

Trisha is a snob. Sorry, she is. I actually didn't like her at first. But heck, I wasn't a huge fan of Mark Darcy either until later in Pride and Prejudice. Trisha without realizing it talks down to people and has a way of being rude to DJ and acting as if cooking isn't a real job and that it makes him lower class. These two end up having a terrible foot in the mouth meet cute, and then again when DJ has a special reason to keep interacting with Trisha. Trisha though has a lot of heart. She's just afraid to show it. When we hear about the incident that occurred that caused Trisha to be labeled the "black sheep" I felt sorry for everyone involved. And when she has a heart to heart with her mother, I maybe teared up a bit. This was a strong story-line I wasn't expecting and Dev did an excellent job with it. We also of course get the Mark Darcy I am attracted to you scene in this one and it goes just as poorly in this book as it did in P&P. It doesn't help that this is after Trisha almost gets DJ shot by a cop (it's a long story) and I loved that DJ had to slap her down about her privilege of being a rich woman whose family is known and he is seen as nothing but a black man when law enforcement is around.

DJ Caine is an up and coming chef. He left England after he realized that his younger sister needed his help. Now he's catering and hoping for a big break. His sister is all he has and DJ is worried that he won't be able to do what is needed for her. We do get a Wickman in this one, but won't get into that too much. It was a surprise and I liked how DJ interacted with Wickman and Trisha. Dev did a good job with DJ's backstory (actually English, though his father side is descended from Indian's too and his mother was a Rwandan refugee). I loved how DJ learned how to cook Indian food and how he modernized it up a bit too.

The other characters are very developed in this one too. Loved Trisha's sister Nisha and her brother Yash. And wow, Yash's story-line. Once again, I hope the next book in this series follows him. I have some questions.

Dev takes a very good look at the Desi culture in the United States and how Trisha's family remade itself. And I think it was great that she included in DJ's background and what he went through becoming a chef and how he still has to carry himself a certain way due to the fact that yes, she's seen as a black man who can be killed if he breathes hard a certain way.

I do wish that Dev had included the recipes of the food that DJ was cooking though. Seriously everything sounded delicious and I love Indian food. Don't read this book while hungry. Have a snack nearby.

The flow was a bit uneven at first, but stick with it. I promise it gets better.

The ending was a delight. I just wanted more.

This novel just was not my cup of tea. The writing is strong but I kept losing interest in the romance elements of the novel, which is exactly what many readers will enjoy most. I think many readers will this novel more than I did, I did enjoy the family dynamics and the Indian-American culture. It just took so long for one main character, DJ, the cook, to start evaluating his own role in this saga with the doctor, and his sister, and all the elements of the novel that remotely follow along with the novel with book celebrates.
This book spends a bit too much time on food.

What a tapestry of characters through the senses of love, connection and tasting of food. A beautifully written story about Trisha who really evolved from the robots she created into a person who she finally deemed worthy of love.

Sonali Dev knocks it out of the park with her iteration on a classic. I loved her spin with upending tradition gender norms. This gem hits shelves 5/7/19. Add it to your TBR list! Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

I love the premise of this book—I love Pride Austen adaptations, and a diverse, gender bent version of Pride and Prejudice sounded amazing—and I wasn’t disappointed. As always, Dev’s writing is lovely, and the characters are well-developed and the story engaging. It’s definitely a loose P&P retelling, but I think it’s better for that.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

An interesting story, a relatively loose retail and the frisson takes much longer to get going. Read it on its own merits and not as an Austen fix. 3.5 rounded up

What an absolutely delicious morsel of a book! There were enough similarities to Pride and Prejudice for any Austen fan, but this was most definitely its own book. As the author says in the afterword, there were no daughters to be married off, but the underlying themes of family, love and misunderstandings were all there.

There was much to enjoy about this book. First, there was a role reversal. While the main male character was still named Darcy (DJ), he was the prejudice of the story while our heroine, Trisha, was the pride. And, they were wonderful in their roles. Another enjoyable facet to the story was that DJ was a chef and the reader was treated to the most mouth watering descriptions of a variety of food. Then there were the families. The main characters came from extremely different backgrounds, but both were utterly devoted to their families. It was so wonderful to read about both and how these families formed their lives.

This author did an outstanding job with characters, pacing and dialogue. My only tiny complaint was occasionally when the characters said something, it turned out they only thought it. That happened a bit too often for my taste. But, that is a very minor flaw.

It seems like this book would appeal to a wide range of readers and to book clubs. I certainly hope we see more of this delightful family.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Fascinating set of characters, that kind of resemble Austens. I did enjoy the book, took awhile o get into it. Lotsof food references, so if you like food, rad this one.

This is a very readable re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice. Dev flips the story in multiple ways so that you don't *quite* know what to expect. If you're hoping for a strictly faithful updating, this is not your novel - but it's much more fun because of how she's adapted Austen's familiar story and characters. Sometimes the writing is a bit over the top, but it's an enjoyable read.

A gorgeously written retelling of a classic tale. Even with the hefty page count, I breezed through this novel because I just couldn't put it down. A must-read for fans of Pride and Prejudice or just plain fans of love and happy-endings.

This reworking of Pride and Prejudice feels authentic to the original while telling the story in a fresh new way. Surgeon Trisha Raje comes from a powerful and wealthy family and holds her status and her profession in very high regard. DJ Caine, an incredibly talented chef, grew up with lots of tragedy and little else and finds Trisha's attitude entirely offputting. The journey from enmity to love between these two characters is completely delicious as are the scrumptious food descriptions. The characters' family lives are also rich and carry a lot of depth that whet the reader's appetite for more books in this terrific new series.

I adore Sonali Dev. She's an amazing author with emotionality, drama and sympathy all weaved into magical storytelling. Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors takes elements of Pride and Prejudice (a strong lead heroine, an equally stubborn and noble hero, an involved and controlling family, with a mishmash of outside characters), and puts it into the world of San Francisco and politics. Through food, the story ties in India, culture, and a family descended from kings.

I loved the drama and the build up to the lead characters, Trisha and Darcy (DJ), and how beautifully they opposed each other from the start. I had moments of "WTF" when Trisha's arrogance came out and huge eyerolls at Darcy's pride...all while loving them more and hoping they'd end up together.

I'd recommend this, along with all of Sonali's novels, to anyone who asked for a book rec.

Another delightful romance from Sonali Dev! Although I am not the biggest fan of Pride and Prejudice, I really enjoyed Ms. Dev's interpretation of the characters and relationships. One of the aspects that stood out to me was her look at the ways "prejudice" affected the protagonists, not just how they prejudged each other, but how society looked at them - for example, the male protagonist, DJ, is a British Black/Anglo-Indian man, who is treated one way when people see him, another when he speaks, and yet another when someone else (usually a "respectable" person) speaks up for him. This kind of inclusion is so important, and I'm really happy that Ms. Dev made a point of it, as well as looking at the different ways people can relate to their own racial & ethnic backgrounds. I hope that we get to know more about the other family members in this book, but really, I will just be happy to read anything else Ms. Dev writes.

I really enjoyed this retelling of Pride & Prejudice featuring a prideful neurosurgeon and a chef who has become prejudiced against her after a few run-ins. DJ and Trisha were both really well-developed and delightful characters, and I also loved DJ's sister Emma and Trisha's family. This one did take me a while to get into - both characters have a lot of family history/backstory that we are privy to, and some of it dragged for me. Once I got into it, though, I couldn't put it down. This is the second Pride & Prejudice retelling I've read this year (the first being Ayesha at Last), and I highly recommend them both.

This is a wonderfully retelling of Pride & Prejudice wherein the gender roles are flipped. Dev weaves a romance with slow burning heat, and updates the classic story to fit modern times and a new cultural setting. In fact, it's the best adaptation of Jane Austen that I've encountered. The characters are rich and warm, and subplots don't distract from the main story, but instead fill in the gaps and propel everything along. Well-paced and lovely.

This book's characters and plot were so well fleshed out, but I felt that the pace of this book was weighed down significantly by the frequent excursions the author would take to infodump backstory that I dont' think was particularly necessary. Still, I loved the exploration of culture and family and love and it was fun!

A modern retelling of a timeless classic! Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors is the Desi version of Pride and Prejudice that I didn't know I needed. There's a fun gender flip and a US setting! Recommended to all P&P lovers.

I enjoyed it enough to give it the rating I did. I just wanted more but it didn't deliver like I thought it would. I'm not sure what was missing for me but I gave it a chance.

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors is a retelling of the classic Pride and Prejudice. If you're looking for a carbon copy of Pride and Prejudice, this isn't the book for you. Sonali Dev creates a fascinating set of characters whose story somewhat resembles the those of Jane Austen. Trisha is a genius skull based neurosurgeon who has become the black sheep of her ambitious Indian-American family. She has great pride in her skills and her abilities, but her lack of family support causes clear issues. DJ is a brilliant chef who is desperately trying to make his dreams happen while also support his sister. They've been relying on just each other since they lost their mother in their teens. Seeing the lifestyle enjoyed by Trisha and never getting their meet-cute sets these two up for a fraught journey. Dev uses a classic tale to highlight the struggles individuals have with defining their own identity. Daughter, brother, genius, artists, doctor. Who are you and how does that affect your story? I received an advanced reader's copy through NetGalley for an honest review.

Mostly a 3.5.

I had read books by this author before, but long ago that I don’t remember much about them. However, when I read the synopsis for this one and realized it’s a desi retelling of P&P, I was just so happy. I also loved that this was set in US, because I can relate more to diaspora stories these days than those set completely in India. And this one both impressed and frustrated the hell out of me.

Trisha is an accomplished neurosurgeon who takes immense pride in her job but is quite socially inept. She also immensely loves her family, but has a lot of guilt for something that she did fifteen years ago which affected her brother Yash and soured her relationship with her father. She is compassionate and a problem solver and I loved her relationship with her sister and cousins and her grandmother. However, despite working hard to achieve her goals, she has been born to extreme privilege and it shows. She also frequently puts her foot in her mouth because she isn’t good at talking or expressing her feelings.

DJ is a chef who has left everything he worked for and is almost bankrupt trying to save his sister suffering from a tumor in her brain. He feels almost spiritual about his cooking and takes immense pleasure in seeing people enjoy and appreciate his food. He has also suffered a lot in his life, bullied and tormented and left homeless by his own father’s family, so he feels very hurt when Trisha makes insensitive comments about him and doesn’t see his concerns in tricky situations because of her own privilege. That makes him retaliate with his own harsh words.

Both these characters hurt each other a lot, both knowingly and unknowingly, argue all the time and even though I saw that they were attracted to each other, I didn’t completely feel invested in their relationship. I just wanted them to stop hating each other. Even though they both are good people, I think I wanted to be convinced that they could be great together too, which I didn’t get in the book. Their getting together felt too much like the end of P&P and I don’t think that translates well to a contemporary setting.

The author does a good job bringing the Raje family to life. We get to know their history, how the kids have been brought up, their beliefs and values and I think it was all well done. The family is very close to each other and I think that reflected on the page. The author also shows that despite being good people and working towards the betterment of society, both personally and politically, they all are still creatures of privilege and can be tone deaf and insensitive to other’s issues. For all their talk about family loyalty, they are all very quick to judge Trisha for her choices and make her feel more guilty all the time and I didn’t like it. Trisha is such an accomplished woman in her thirties but cowers in front of her father, and even though we are taught in our Indian culture to be very respectful of parents, I particularly hate when parents take advantage of this and emotionally manipulate their children which is what happens here. Even though everything works out towards the end, I think Trisha should have grown a bit of a backbone and stood up for herself instead of everyone just behaving as if it was all ok now.

This book is only a loose gender bent retelling of Pride and Prejudice which focuses mostly on the character’s pride and prejudices. It is a mostly realistic portrayal of different kinds of families and how class privilege can affect the perceptions of people towards others. Just don’t go into this expecting a lot of romance. It is an interesting read and I didn’t wanna put it down at all, but I also wanted something more from the characters.