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"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 of Beach Read

Yash Raje, California’s first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always known exactly what he wants—and how to use his privileged background to get it. He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world. But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend, Yash’s easy life suddenly feels like a lie, his control an illusion. When he tries to get back on the campaign trail, he blacks out with panic.

Desperate to keep Yash’s condition from leaking to the media, his family turns to the one person they trust—his sister’s best friend, India Dashwood, California’s foremost stress management coach. Raised by a family of yoga teachers, India has helped San Francisco’s high strung overachievers for a decade without so much as altering her breath. But this man—with his boundless ambition, simmering intensity, and absolute faith in his political beliefs—is like no other.

Yash has spent a lifetime repressing everything to succeed, including their one magical night ten years ago—a too brief, too bright passion that if rekindled threatens to destroy the dream he’s willingly shouldered for his family and community . . . until now.

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“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 of In A Holidaze

"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 of Beach Read --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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USA Today Bestselling author Sonali Dev writes Bollywood-style love stories that explore issues faced by women around the world. Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, is 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.

Find more at sonalidev.com.

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages

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Award winning author, Sonali Dev, writes Bollywood-style love stories that let her explore issues faced by women around the world while still indulging her faith in a happily ever after.

Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post and Kirkus Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer’s Choice award for best contemporary romance, the RT Seal of Excellence, and is a RITA Finalist.

Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog. Find out more at sonalidev.com.

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Anni (Bella) reads a lot

Fantastic twist on a Jane Austen Classic!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 24, 2021

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The Rajes series by Sonali Dev is twists on Jane Austen classic tales, with modern day Indian characters and their families. And - they are absolutely incredible! I only just discovered Sonali Dev this year, and she is one of my new favourite authors. She is a fantastic storyteller and using the Jane Austen framework to tell her tales is brilliant - I love this series!

This particular book builds on a character we know from the first two - brother Yash Raje. The first books are about his siblings. Yash met a girl 10 years earlier (India Dashwood, who is Thai... not Indian), just one time, but he had an instant connection. They next day, due to circumstances, he had to create a fake relationship with a childhood friend to help cover up an incident, and help out both of their careers. This book takes place when he and that girl from the instant connection meet again due to new circumstances when he requires her professional services... and she is the only one that can help him with his problem. Throwing them together again of course leads to the resurfacing of that initial instant attraction, and throws a wrench into the 10 year plan that he's been relying on to help his political career flourish.

This book and the series (3 so far, with The Emma Project coming Spring 2022) are excellent, but can be read as standalone. The previous characters do appear, but the instances where they do won't affect the reading order and won't really give anything away. She does a great job of making sure of that! I absolutely recommend this series, as well as her Bollywood Affair/Bollywood Bride series, which was my first read of hers - the writing is just too good to miss!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 5, 2021

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I truly enjoyed this entry in the Raje Series, and it was another wonderful and charming adaptation of a Jane Austen classic. As always, the author dealt with some very serious topics with compassion and directness, but always with enough hope to make it bearable. One drawback, if one can call it that, was that there was a lot of back and forth at the beginning, as in the H kept coming to see the h, then leaving, then coming back, then leaving. It made sense in the context but seemed to go on a little longer than it maybe needed to. Overall, a great book and I'd highly recommend the whole series.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 3, 2021

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This trilogy of books were absolutely delightful. It was so much fun to read Austen reimagined in modern day and the characters were all rich and complex and fun to get to know. I loved how this book branched out from family a little. I hope there are more to come!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 11, 2021

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I found this entry in the Raje story difficult to like. I want to because the writing sparkles but this one focuses more on the brother and not the sisters. The Raje girls are irristible. Yash the brother comes across as over privileged and expecting success at every turn and facet of life. It's harder to feel any goodness towards him. Still a good read though.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 8, 2021

I whizzed through Sonali Dev’s Raje family series recently. I am a sucker for a Jane Austen modern day retelling. Having this series centered around a South Asian family made me even more excited. I read the first 2 (Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavours followed by Recipe for Persuasion) and then got approved by @netgalley to review an ARC of Incense and Sensibility and I JUMPED ON IT. I love the world Sonali built and enjoyed seeing what was going on with the other characters as the books went along. Another game I played with myself was see which Jane Austen character this character is supposed to be. Check out the series!!!

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Varun Prabhu

Great book and really awesome characters

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 17, 2022

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With the first two books not disappointing me, I expected a lot from Book 3, whose primary protagonist is Yash, a broody character introduced in the first book. And the book lived to my expectations. My only grouse with it was that it was shorter compared to the other two. Well, that means kudos to Sonali Dev for crafting Bollywood style romances that would put even the Bolly masalas to shame. Really good story about India Dashwood and Yash Raje. Again, love the crossovers... This series is worth reading for all the drama and the romance. Can read it again and again. No doubts about that.

Ketaki

The best book in the Raje series!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on November 1, 2021

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Love this book for the simplicity in perspective of both the lead characters though they have been painfully etched with deeper layers of character building and unfolding.
The writing is magical where you realise you meet India Dashwood and you instantly feel her calmness soak into you and the calmness really stays throughout the story and that is a winner for me. Meet Yash Raje and the existential crisis is as real as yours or mine. His legacy though may not be your or my reality, cheers to him for that! Beautiful characters that bring a sense of peace, calm & the will to set things right no matter the cost. Simple yet strong characters that find clarity in the process and help us find clarity along the lines as well. The most well written and lovable story of all Raje's! This one steals your heart and reinforces your faith in believing in yourself.

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Stephanie Burns

An Inspired Spin on an Austen Classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2021

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When done well, there’s nothing better than a smart spin on a Jane Austen classic, and Sonali Dev is a master at this craft. I gobbled up every morsel of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors and Recipe for Persuasion, so of course I had high hopes when I heard that the third book in her Rajes series was inspired by Austen’s first novel—and my personal favorite—Sense and Sensibility. My expectations were already astronomical, and Incense and Sensibility exceeded them.

Much like the work it’s drawn from, Incense and Sensibility is at its core a novel of emotions—the ones we restrain, the ones we give too willingly, and the ones we can’t help but follow. Yash and India are the perfect pair of protagonists, crackling with electricity at every turn, and both their individual paths and the journey they take together left me besotted. With each chapter, I fell for them more and more, and by the final pages, I was breathless. As with the previous books in this series, this story and its characters stand firmly on their own, wholly original from the Austen classic, but fans of Sense and Sensibility will treasure the brilliant links to the source material. The fresh spin on the Marianne-Willoughby-Colonel Brandon triangle had me squealing with delight, and I also loved Dev’s take on Lucy Steele.

While you don’t have to read all of the books in the Rajes series in order to enjoy this one, you’ll love it all the more if you do. Not only was it so fun to catch up with my favorite characters from the earlier novels, getting to know the real Yash and tap into all of his complicated layers after seeing him as the polished and infallible older brother was so rewarding. All of these pieces blended together to make this book my favorite of the series so far.

If you love Jane Austen, this book is for you. If you love compelling romance, this book is for you. If you love family stories, complex characters, or tales about the importance of being true to who you really are, this book is for you.

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Lynne M. Spreen

Good story, a little slow

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2021

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What an exciting start to a book: Yash is running for governor of California. He's brilliant, handsome, and ethical. He's a natural leader, and truly wants to do good. Then he's shot at a campaign rally, his bodyguard (a new father) lingers in a coma, and Yash loses his will to continue. Enter India, an equally gifted life coach, who has almost preternatural abilities to understand and heal her clients. She and Yash met years ago at a wedding, and the spark was instantaneous. Then he dumped her. Now they're together again. He's frozen from trauma; she's frozen from heartache. Can they both thaw and be together, since they're clearly meant for each other?

I won't address the author's intention to create a novel that's an homage to Jane Austen. Instead, I'd like to just point out what I felt were the goods and bads of this novel. I wish I could give it more stars, but to be honest, it dragged.

I loved the premise! I really liked Tara (funny negative stories!!) and the family she built. I liked the setting (wealthy northern California), the recognition of what a powerhouse is my beloved state, the Indian cultural aspects, and the dramatic challenges. But I thought China was too flakey. I couldn't get behind India's tolerance of her histrionics. Brandy, the bodyguard, was spectacular but thawed too quickly. Naina, the childhood friend, turned evil at the end, threatening Yash. Although I understand people can change, this seemed far-fetched.

There are good dramatic obstacles in this novel. For one, Yash is literally and figuratively scarred by a childhood accident, plus he was the victim of a sexual predator (extortionist) as a young adult. Will he ever be able to feel lust and love, and to trust? Will the predator resurface? Will Yash lose the election when Naina goes public about their fake-relationship-of-convenience? Will all the hard work, hopes, and dreams for his candidacy be destroyed? Will Tara be well? Will India's beloved home have to be sold? All of these add good dramatic tension.

My problem was with the pacing. The main action occurs in dialogue, but it's not gripping dialogue, and the story dragged a little. Otherwise, I did enjoy it.

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Let's Hear It for the Girls!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2021

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Incense and Sensibility, Sonali Dev’s third take on Austen classic, tells of the story Yash Raje – the seemingly perfect son, poised to become the next governor of California. What happens when a violent event sounds internal alarms that signal all is not well with this favored son? What happens? The extraordinary and smart women in his life push him to get the help he needs. They push him right into the arms of an unforgettable woman, India Dashwood, family friend, yoga teacher and stress-management expert. She’s also the woman who years ago, made Yash believe in magic and soul mates – the woman who scared him to death and who he walked away from without looking back. Ouch.

It is the women in this story that really shine! They get it done. India Dashwood may be one of my most favorite characters – and that’s saying something considering how much I adore Ashna from Recipe for Persuasion! She is centered, loving, and knows what it is to stand for others. Even when it’s painful, she doesn’t shy away from helping those she loves, and that includes Yash.

These women, whether it’s his sisters, Nisha, Yash’s campaign manager or Trisha, the neurosurgeon, they are self-possessed without being insufferable, they’re people you want to be friends with, and they are the people you want to have standing strong for you and with you. For me, it’s Mina Raje, Yash’s mother, who again, like in the previous books, almost steals the show with her powerful statements. She is wonderful!

What happens next? You’ll have to jump on board the Yash and India Express and hold on for dear life. It’s an intense, passionate, and powerful ride.

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