The Emma Project
Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist from award-winning author Sonali Dev in her heartwarmingly irresistible Jane Austen inspired rom com series.
No one can call Vansh Raje’s life anything but charmed. Handsome—Vogue has declared him California’s hottest single—and rich enough to spend all his time on missions to make the world a better place. Add to that a doting family and a contagiously sunny disposition and Vansh has made it halfway through his twenties without ever facing anything to throw him off his admittedly spectacular game.
A couple years from turning forty, Knightlina (Naina) Kohli has just gotten out of a ten-year-long fake relationship with Vansh’s brother and wants only one thing from her life…fine, two things. One, to have nothing to do with the unfairly blessed Raje family ever again. Two, to bring economic independence to millions of women in South Asia through her microfinance foundation and prove her father wrong about, well, everything.
Just when Naina’s dream is about to come to fruition, Vansh Raje shows up with his misguided Emma Project... And suddenly she’s fighting him for funding and wondering if a friends-with-benefits arrangement that’s as toe-curlingly hot as it is fun is worth risking her life’s work for.
General Fiction (Adult) | Romance | Women's Fiction Book 4 of 4: The Rajes
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
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Advance Praise for The Emma Project:
“This book holds a galaxy of depth in its pages; it is powerful and loving, sensual and layered. Sonali Dev’s writing is glorious.” -- Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author, on Incense and Sensibility
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“Dev continues the story of the Raje family with this nuanced and powerful second chance romance, a loose riff on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Dev balances the toe-curling romance with high-octane family drama...[her] candor and sensitivity in both story lines set this family-centric romance apart. Readers are sure to be impressed.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Recipe for Persuasion
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“Clever allusions to Persuasion aside (even Jane Austen fans will be challenged to spot them all), this is a sumptuously multilayered story about the ways love gets tangled in family life and romantic relationships.” -- Library Journal (starred review) on Recipe for Persuasion
My Review:
4.5 Stars:
4.5 Jane Austin's Emma Retelling we all needed. Sonali Dev has hit it out of the park with this one.
🌺The fourth book in The Rajes Series
🌺Retelling of Jane Austin's Emma
🌺Workplace Romance
🌺Age Gap
🌺Should read other books before reading - the series is worth it.
🌺Will make you hungry. You have been warned.
The Family saga continues in this fourth and last installment in The Rajes series. Sonali Dev has brought the chaos and mess back with some steamy scenes in this one, bringing new light to a different take on Emma. This story follows Vansh Rajes this time around. Heading back to San Francisco to tackle a new project to help with homelessness he is forced to partner up with his older brothers, ex-fake girlfriend, Naina. The slowish burn of friends to lovers when Naina can no longer ignore her feelings was the sweetest and most vulnerable writing Sonali Dev has done to date. I loved every single second of this and can't wait to share my spoiler reviews and thoughts when this book comes out in May.
⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
🔥🔥 Spice
Thank you to Netgalley and Avon & Harper Voyager for the Advance Readers Copy of The Emma Project in exchange for my honest review.
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AUTHOR
USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev writes Bollywood-style love stories that explore universal issues. Her novels have been named Best Books of the Year by Library Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, and Kirkus. She has won numerous accolades, including the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, has been a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Shelf Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.” She lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two visiting adult children, and the world’s most perfect dog.
PUBLISHER
Avon is one of America's most acclaimed romance imprints. Known for having pioneered the historical romance category, Avon continues to publish a wide variety of genres, including contemporary, rom-com, paranormal, and regency romance.
Harper Voyager is a thriving global imprint dedicated to science fiction and fantasy.
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“A delight from start to finish, both for Jane Austen fans looking for a fresh take and readers seeking deeply felt relationships and complicated family dynamics. In Dev’s world, the past is alive in the present; I was wholly engrossed and had plenty to think about. At the same time, the reality TV storyline added a thread of pure fun escapism—something all of us need right now.” -- Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author, on Recipe for Persuasion
“Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your chest where the characters will live on. Yash and India’s story will stick with me for a long time.” -- Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author
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The Emma Project
Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist from award-winning author Sonali Dev in her heartwarmingly irresistible Jane Austen inspired rom com series.
No one can call Vansh Raje’s life anything but charmed. Handsome—Vogue has declared him California’s hottest single—and rich enough to spend all his time on missions to make the world a better place. Add to that a doting family and a contagiously sunny disposition and Vansh has made it halfway through his twenties without ever facing anything to throw him off his admittedly spectacular game.
A couple years from turning forty, Knightlina (Naina) Kohli has just gotten out of a ten-year-long fake relationship with Vansh’s brother and wants only one thing from her life…fine, two things. One, to have nothing to do with the unfairly blessed Raje family ever again. Two, to bring economic independence to millions of women in South Asia through her microfinance foundation and prove her father wrong about, well, everything.
Just when Naina’s dream is about to come to fruition, Vansh Raje shows up with his misguided Emma Project... And suddenly she’s fighting him for funding and wondering if a friends-with-benefits arrangement that’s as toe-curlingly hot as it is fun is worth risking her life’s work for.
General Fiction (Adult) | Romance | Women's Fiction Book 4 of 4: The Rajes
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
-
Advance Praise for The Emma Project:
“This book holds a galaxy of depth in its pages; it is powerful and loving, sensual and layered. Sonali Dev’s writing is glorious.” -- Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author, on Incense and Sensibility
-
“Dev continues the story of the Raje family with this nuanced and powerful second chance romance, a loose riff on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Dev balances the toe-curling romance with high-octane family drama...[her] candor and sensitivity in both story lines set this family-centric romance apart. Readers are sure to be impressed.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Recipe for Persuasion
-
“Clever allusions to Persuasion aside (even Jane Austen fans will be challenged to spot them all), this is a sumptuously multilayered story about the ways love gets tangled in family life and romantic relationships.” -- Library Journal (starred review) on Recipe for Persuasion
My Review:
4.5 Stars:
4.5 Jane Austin's Emma Retelling we all needed. Sonali Dev has hit it out of the park with this one.
🌺The fourth book in The Rajes Series
🌺Retelling of Jane Austin's Emma
🌺Workplace Romance
🌺Age Gap
🌺Should read other books before reading - the series is worth it.
🌺Will make you hungry. You have been warned.
The Family saga continues in this fourth and last installment in The Rajes series. Sonali Dev has brought the chaos and mess back with some steamy scenes in this one, bringing new light to a different take on Emma. This story follows Vansh Rajes this time around. Heading back to San Francisco to tackle a new project to help with homelessness he is forced to partner up with his older brothers, ex-fake girlfriend, Naina. The slowish burn of friends to lovers when Naina can no longer ignore her feelings was the sweetest and most vulnerable writing Sonali Dev has done to date. I loved every single second of this and can't wait to share my spoiler reviews and thoughts when this book comes out in May.
⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
🔥🔥 Spice
Thank you to Netgalley and Avon & Harper Voyager for the Advance Readers Copy of The Emma Project in exchange for my honest review.
PRINT LENGTH PAGES
AVERAGE REVIEW RATING
PAPERBACK COST
E-BOOK COST
AUTHOR
USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev writes Bollywood-style love stories that explore universal issues. Her novels have been named Best Books of the Year by Library Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, and Kirkus. She has won numerous accolades, including the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, has been a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Shelf Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.” She lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two visiting adult children, and the world’s most perfect dog.
PUBLISHER
Avon is one of America's most acclaimed romance imprints. Known for having pioneered the historical romance category, Avon continues to publish a wide variety of genres, including contemporary, rom-com, paranormal, and regency romance.
Harper Voyager is a thriving global imprint dedicated to science fiction and fantasy.
WHAT OTHERS SAY?
KIND WORDS FROM OTHERS
“A delight from start to finish, both for Jane Austen fans looking for a fresh take and readers seeking deeply felt relationships and complicated family dynamics. In Dev’s world, the past is alive in the present; I was wholly engrossed and had plenty to think about. At the same time, the reality TV storyline added a thread of pure fun escapism—something all of us need right now.” -- Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author, on Recipe for Persuasion
“Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your chest where the characters will live on. Yash and India’s story will stick with me for a long time.” -- Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author
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