Her customers continue to dwindle and her sous chef leaves her for a better position.Īshna feels alone and lost when her mother, who left her as a child, calls and makes her feel worse about her life and her choices (as always) along with trying to convince her to sell the resturant and do something else. When she returned home eager to put her education to work and carry on her father’s dreams, she discovered that the people she left in charge of the business had embezzled a large portion of the profits and fled, the resturant is dwindling in customers, and that nearly every time she tries to make something new or deviate from the original menu she has panic attacks.ĭJ tries to help her revamp the menu, but she struggles trying to do anything. Ashna’s father died when Ashna was graduating high school and after his death she decided to carry on his legacy and traveled to Paris to attend Cordeon Bleu (meeting and befriending DJ, from the previous story). There he built a home and a restaurant, cooking Indian and fancy cuisine.Īshna lived with her father in California, spending most of her time living with her Raje cousins, as her mother was always gone as she traveled around the world trying to better women’s lives. Ashna is an Indian princess her father (a prince) married a cricket star, but was constantly getting into trouble and causing scandal, so he was sent away from India to to America to be with his older brother (who would hopefully help whip him into shape). This book is about Trisha’s cousin Ashna Raje. So I decided to let my thoughts steep for a while and think about what it was that made me not love the sequel when I had really loved the first book in the series. Then I finally got my hands on a copy, I read it all in one setting and I didn’t really like it as much as I thought I would. So when Dev said that she was planning on writing another book, this one being a retelling of Persuasion, I was jazzed.

Recipe for persuasion sonali dev