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Title: Senorita Rani

Author: Aditi Chopra

Narrator: Quiana Goodrum

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-13

Publisher: Aditi Chopra

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Rani, a traditional girl of Indian origin meets a Panamanian hunk named Carlos Morales on a Caribbean cruise line. Carlos finds Rani's innocence very attractive and manages to woo Rani in spite of her initial reluctance. The story takes a different turn when Rani learns that Carlos is already married and has a seven-year-old son.

Rani comes from a traditional Indian background and it remains to be seen if her love for Carlos will stand the test of time and tradition. Senorita Rani is a novelette that will capture your heart.

Members Reviews:

A sweet ending to a love story

Aditi has done it again!

This beautiful heart rendering love story brings in innocent love and ways to capture the heart of that little soul. The ending was touching and alluring.

A definite read!

A great read!!

Loved Reading this short and really sweet love story!! Real characters with real emotions... Gripping storyline and great attention to details.

Awkward

If I think a book is lower rating than 3 stars I usually won't do a review but this is one of the times I am reviewing.

This is the story of Rani, an East Indian woman born and raised in the USA, and Carlos, a Panamanian man who now lives in Miami. They meet on a cruise ship where Carlos works as the entertainment director. In this case Rani has agreed to volunteer for a dance number. However she feels uncomfortable and Carlos tells her to just do it.

Rani is a paying customer on a cruise ship. She doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to do. She can say screw you and walk off if she's really offended by what's she's been asked to do in a volunteer capacity.

She does the offending dance anyway (can you say no backbone?) and sees Carlos on the ship a couple more times and decides she hates his guts. And yes, those were the words used.

They decide to hook up anyway seeing as how they both live in Miami. For a university educated woman of 30 Rani is very immature and has this weird relationship with her parents who own a restaurant. She invites Carlos for dinner with her parents at their restaurant and during the meal Rani's father says my daughter isn't going to marry anyone who's not Indian. In other words Carlos, your skin color is wrong. It was just one of many awkward moments that happened in this book, that the father just comes out of nowhere and says it. The first time he meets the guy? And why is Rani allowing her parents to dictate who she can date or marry anyway?

Rani travels to Panama to meet Carlos' son and mother. They come back to Miami. They do this, that and the other. Basically all the reader does is follow them around and their lives just aren't that exciting.

The book has a good concept - an interracial romance - but it was plagued with juvenile writing and awkward conversations and awkward scenes. The book was not formatted well and sentences had extra words in them or missing words which just added to the overall awkwardness of this novel. The conversations were overly formal. "Okay I am hungry now." "Come, I will help you." "How come you are not buying much?" "I am not sure about that but I will think about." And so forth every time someone opened their mouth, and unfortunately this book was mostly dialogue driven. Using contractions would have made the conversations more comfortable to read.

The novel jumped all over the place and the author does not have a grasp of "show, don't tell".