Besides, there were some instances where her thoughts were so occupied with Oliver that it became a nuisance to read. It felt very weird that someone who loved her culture so much wouldn’t know what a damn tandoor was. For one, her oblivious to Indian items like tandoor when she claims to love India. I couldn’t help but giggle through those parts.īut there were certain points where Rani’s character also infuriated me. Rani’s sneaky outings to go and meet Oliver, the phone calls she disguises as being from her best friend – these instances were so relatable that it took me back to my first dating years when I was sixteen. It is pretty universal about desi parents being hardcore about relationships and dating during teen years, and the way that we kids defy them anyway. Rani was a highly relatable character, I won’t lie.
The red signs do appear from the first meet itself, really, but the manipulation in his words is pretty inevitable and we readers, along with Rani, fall under his charms too.
And then the signs showed up and I was screaming in my head for Rani – get out, get out, get out! I think the author did a good job with Oliver because no matter how much I disliked him, I was also marveling at the way his personality was developed, his character arc shown and portrayed in the book. He was amusing and his sweet handling of the relationship made me gooey inside. I did like Oliver’s character at the beginning. That is how the book starts, and that is how Oliver is described head on. But Oliver makes her want to break the last rule, and a whole lot more. We get to know from the first page that Rani is interested in photography, wants to pursue pediatrics, and is barred from dating. From the first page, first line itself, we readers are told how chaos is in the near future. The book starts with Rani in an art exhibition where she first sees Oliver. American Betiya follows Rani and Oliver’s tumultuous romance as she grapples with identity, culture and what it means to love. I’m so grateful for Lonely Pages Book Tours for having me on the blog tour and giving me a chance to read an early copy of this book. The theme sounded so good, the cover was stunning and the title was an immediate catch. When the cover revealed happened for American Betiya last year, I was sold.
It is very rarely that one gets to see a true desi term in a contemporary book title.
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