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India is not a homogenous land, but rather an amaglam of various languages, religions, customs and traditions, and I love that this was honoured in the way the author ensured that it was Punjabi culture that she was choosing to depict, and that she was committed to doing it with care and sensitivity. What starts as a fling grows into something more between the two, and when they arrive back home, they navigate what it means to fall in love with someone who's family, culture and background is vastly different from their own.Īs an Indian living in a different country, I really appreciated the respect and effort that the author took to portray one of the many diverse, vibrant and wonderul cultures from my country. (Not) Your Basic Love Story sees Becky on her way to Mexico from Canada for her best friend's wedding, where she meets Jagdev Singh (or Dev as he prefers to be called) on the plane and they seem to hit it off. Thank you Netgalley & Lindsay Maple for providing me with an ARC. This book focuses more on the interracial culture conflicts, it's very believable not overly dramatic but I was not very invested in the romance aspect and Rebecca's conflicting emotions weren't helping either to be honest. The writing and the way some characters were portrayed in a realistic way was engaging.

The build up of their relationship was quite fast which is why I couldn't connect much with the romance as much as I thought I would. Basically the whole set-up of the book is how these two manage to compromise for each other and learn each other's cultures (Rebecca had to do the learning part mostly though). The communication between Dev & Rebecca could've been better but in the end, they did talk their problems out. Initially Dev was kind of the perfect guy and Rebecca's whole life was a mess but then he did start showing his faults. While our girl Rebecca here is white so obviously the issues with cultural differences were bound to happen between them and that's what exactly happened here.

The author was spot on when it came to describing all the little things from the Desi dishes to the clothes, traditions and slangs. When I saw that the main guy Dev is an Indian-Canadian, I was so excited to pick this book up. I had no idea that in losing my luggage, I’d find something so unexpectedly wonderful.