Lindsay Maple

Stubbornly independent Becky isn't looking for love, but when sparks fly on a flight to Mexico she learns her carefully planned life might be the opposite of what she needs. What begins as a fun vacation fling with a sexy stranger turns into so much more.

The problem? Dev and Becky couldn't be more different. Back home in Vancouver, Canada, their relationship grows, and their two worlds collide.

Can a roommate-hating city girl with a diet of chicken nuggets and cheap wine make it work with a vegetarian, non-drinking, Sikh man who lives with his rambunctious multigenerational family in the suburbs?

As Becky navigates her way through a culture she knows nothing about, she is faced with one of the most important decisions of her life: change her plans for how she'd imagined her happily-ever-after, or walk away from love.

(Not) Your Basic Love Story is a RomCom about acceptance, compromise, and love being the only thing that truly matters.

Not Your Basic Love Story

Kareena Suneja

* I received the advanced copy by net galley * 

“He was the first season of Firefly to my Gilmore girls” 

I am gonna be VERY honest here, when I went into this book I had no idea what it was about, the cover really attracted me to it (it’s SO CUTE and THE COLOURS??) This is one of the very few arcs that really made me lose sleep over the chapters. This wasn’t a simple adorable rom com story, this was different and realistic, and it was too real?? Like yes a relationship isn’t easy. Having another human being into your life and sharing everything isn’t easy. This book made me cry so much and made me angry so much. Rebecca and Dev comes from different worlds and cultures, while they do fall in love but falling in love isn’t easy for them with the differences and yet trying the best to make it work, to find a common ground. I think the best way into going this book is by not reading a synopsis or a spoiler review because trust me when I say this you will hate this and love this book. Lindsay I’m obsessed. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
0.5/5🌶

sydney

*3.5

I did enjoy this book and I liked that their romance happened quickly. I loved all of his family members but I really only liked her dad. Becky's mom and brother were really annoying. 

My main problem with this book and why I gave it 3.5 stars is because of the way the ex boyfriend was handled. Having him cheat on her is fine but it's the way that he explained it that I don't like. Having him say that he cheated on her with a guy because he was figuring out his sexuality but he now knows that he's bi feels very much like a stereotype and I hated it.

Not your basic love story follows Rebecca who is a 29-year-old working woman fresh out of a breakup and almost certain that her life is going backward, her best friend getting married isn’t making things easier for her. But it's not her friend’s life that is going wrong, she is convinced she is lagging until she meets Dev, a 25-year-old business student and a man of Indian origin. 

Since I am from India I was so excited about another book with the representation. And while I found the family accurately brought to life, I can’t say the same about Dev. There was so much about his character that didn’t sit right with me and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the romance. The love story felt so rushed that by the end I was neutral about it. 

However, there were a few things about this book that I did enjoy. One of them is the side characters, especially Angelina and Priya. I am rather more interested in their story. Secondly, I loved how Rebecca embraces the Sikh traditions, it was beautifully written.   

One of the things that slightly annoyed me was the idea that was continuously sold that Rebecca not being married and having kids at 29 was wrong and what was weirder was the fact that she and Miranda her best friend thought the same. Her conflicting thoughts weren’t helping. At some point in the story, the couple broke up (Rebecca broke up) and got engaged (Dev proposed) in the same conversation while Rebecca was also considering getting back with her cheater ex.

The writing is very easy to go through which in my opinion makes this a decent one-time read if you could connect to the love story because their romance forms the most significant part of the story.  

Akansha

Not your basic love story follows Rebecca who is a 29-year-old working woman fresh out of a breakup and almost certain that her life is going backward, her best friend getting married isn’t making things easier for her. But it's not her friend’s life that is going wrong, she is convinced she is lagging until she meets Dev, a 25-year-old business student and a man of Indian origin. 

Since I am from India I was so excited about another book with the representation. And while I found the family accurately brought to life, I can’t say the same about Dev. There was so much about his character that didn’t sit right with me and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the romance. The love story felt so rushed that by the end I was neutral about it. 

However, there were a few things about this book that I did enjoy. One of them is the side characters, especially Angelina and Priya. I am rather more interested in their story. Secondly, I loved how Rebecca embraces the Sikh traditions, it was beautifully written.   

One of the things that slightly annoyed me was the idea that was continuously sold that Rebecca not being married and having kids at 29 was wrong and what was weirder was the fact that she and Miranda her best friend thought the same. Her conflicting thoughts weren’t helping. At some point in the story, the couple broke up (Rebecca broke up) and got engaged (Dev proposed) in the same conversation while Rebecca was also considering getting back with her cheater ex.

The writing is very easy to go through which in my opinion makes this a decent one-time read if you could connect to the love story because their romance forms the most significant part of the story.  

Not Your Basic Love Story

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