Her sisters are all different people, but much the same: they’re ambitious, perfectionists with a deep love of family and big hearts. (I suspect Rai has a family tree with life histories written out for each of the sisters.) Sadia’s parents are one of those long-married couples that still love each other. Sadia is one of five sisters, and while I admit that the story was slowed down by getting to know the sisters, spouses, children, and parents, they’re remarkably well developed. The family dynamics in this book are so complex that it’s difficult to describe them without giving too much of the plot away, but for you, dear reader, I will try. The answer, of course, is for you to read and find out. To complicate things further, he’s never met his nephew, so how will that go? When he comes back to town for his sister, Jackson has to face his decades-long love of a woman he can’t have: his sister-in-law, his childhood best friend, his sister’s best friend. (All of Alisha Rai’s books contain delicious food, you have been warned.) Jackson isn’t afraid of failure like Sadia, but he has resigned himself to a life without love, which is a different sort of fear, I think. What no one at home realized was that, while he was running, Jackson was also becoming a world-famous chef. So when Jackson was falsely accused of setting fire to the C&O store and Paul and Sadia eloped? He justifiably ran away. If you’ve read Hate to Want You, you know that Jackson has loved Sadia since… forever.
Alisha Rai reliably delivers heroines who have complex inner lives and motivations, and Sadia is no exception. She also sort of hates running the cafe but, again, doesn’t want to sell it and be seen as a failure. As we learn early in the book, Sadia and her late husband, Paul, were about to divorce when he died, but because she’s afraid of being seen as a failure, Sadia hasn’t told anyone.
Sadia is a single mom to six-year-old Kareem, middle of five Pakistani-American sisters, owner/manager of the Kane family cafe, bartender at O’Killian’s, and a conflicted widow. Sadia Ahmed is the sister-in-law of the heroine of Hate to Want You, but she’s so much more. The Forbidden Hearts series is full of secrets, intense emotions, and forbidden love, and features men and women who are, despite their circumstances, genuinely good people. Her latest book, Wrong to Need You, is a great example of Rai’s strengths. If someone asked me to describe Alisha Rai’s books, I’d say that she excels at writing three things in particular: heroines, family, and sexual tension. This fabulous book comes out TODAY, 11/28/17, so if you get that "OMG I NEED IT" feeling, you can read it right away! Grab some cookies and cuddle up. This is a repost of a review Suzanne wrote for Heroes & Heartbreakers.
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