{"id":11268,"date":"2020-05-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:03:11","slug":"shell-make-him-regret-it-of-curses-and-kisses-by-sandhya-menon-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"She’ll make him regret it! OF CURSES AND KISSES, by Sandhya Menon (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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His family stole it,
her ancestor cursed it,
a ruby’s home<\/a> controls their destinies\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As eldest, Jaya does what’s best for her royal family – moving from south India to the US her senior year to keep her younger sister safe, agreeing to a politically arranged marriage soon. Their new exclusive school in the Colorado mountains is a fitting place to wait out the scandal that young Lord Emerson embroiled Isha in from afar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banished by his father after Grey’s mother died when he was a baby, the young British lord tries not to care – about this exclusive school, about his classmates, about anyone – since the Emerson family is cursed to die out when he reaches 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding Lord Emerson at St. Rosetta’s, Jaya won’t pass up the chance to break his heart in retaliation for his great-great’s refusal to return the stolen ruby to her family! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, she must make him fall in love with her. After she gets him to actually talk to her, that is. Her new friends help her, treat her like a real person instead of a political pawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How odd that Jaya and Grey can even stand to be in the same place, in light of their families’ generations-long feud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How quickly time is ticking toward the announcement of Jaya’s engagement, toward Grey’s 18th birthday\u2026toward the end of their beginning together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not unusual that Kiran knows people at her school (the world of the ultra-rich is rather small), but is her future fiance spying on Jaya through ice-queen Caterina?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How strange that small rubies keep falling from Jaya’s rose pendant…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This retelling of Beauty and the Beast<\/a> in two voices echoes across the hidden spaces of their hearts and the vast halls of their school in the first book of the St. Rosetta’s Academy series. From the author of When Dimple Met Rishi<\/em> (recommended here<\/a>), From Twinkle With Love<\/em> (here<\/a>), and There’s Something About Sweetie<\/em> (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When is it worth fighting against fate?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Of Curses and Kisses (St. Rosetta’s Academy, book 1) \/ Sandhya Menon. Simon Pulse, 2020. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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