Sad to say goodbye to the Raje family. ( )

Sorry to see this series end. Love our leads making their way to each other and standing up for themselves. The Emma adaptations take some great turns that say something about the world that we live in. Really worth the read. ( )

After several books about the Raje family, it was interesting to get to know Vansh better, and Naina too (although I was less interested when their relationship detoured into friends-with-benefits because that's not a dynamic I'm super interested in), and Dev effectively manages to make this a modern, genderswapped Emma retelling.

Otherwise I don't have any strong feelings about this one. ( )

Vansh Raje is the youngest in his very well-to-do family, but he's spent much of his adult life away from home working on a variety of projects to better the world. Naina Kohli has worked hard for years bettering the life of women, and now has a rich benefactor who's provided the money for her latest project. But when that benefactor meets Vansh, to Naina's frustration, her locked-in funding suddenly becomes tentative, and they're going to have to work together in order to make it work.

Sonali Dev's series about the Raje family uses four of Jane Austen's stories as inspiration. This one is Emma, gender flipped, since it's Vansh who's the nice but spoiled rich boy with everything handed to him on a silver platter. His and Naina's banter was fun, though it takes a frustratingly long time for them to even work together well, let alone anything else. It's believable, but it got a little long as they both worked through their personal hangups. Added to that, there's a side love story with a nod to Jane Fairfax in the original, and you end up with rather a lot going on all at once. That being said, the characters - including several side characters, such as Naina's mother - are complex and sympathetic, and you can jump right in reading this book without having read any of the others. An enjoyable ride whether you've read Austen or not, but especially rewarding in looking for the parallels. ( )

The fourth book that centers on one of the Raje family members finding love using the some of a Jane Austin novel to work the storyline. This one focuses on the baby of the family, Vansh. Vansh has been travelling the world doing charity projects here and there. Naina has just secured funding for her long-term charity project even as her personal life has come crumbling down with the ending of her 10 year engagement to Vansh’s older brother. As soon as her connections to the new California governor goes away her funding partner decides to play her against Vansh. As they begin to work together on her project and a project that Vansh has come up with as they are set against one anther by the funder. And then sparks fly and now they must hide it from his family. A nice conclusion to a fun romance series. ( )