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- Content warnings: Anxiety, Panic attacks, PTSD, Racism/bigotry, Hate crime, Gun violence, Trauma, Grief
Incense and Sensibility
by Sonali Dev
Book 3 in The Rajes
Sonali Dev takes romance seriously - this Sense and Sensibility retelling hands a control-freak politician a panic disorder and a yoga teacher who refuses to let him repress his way out of it. The slow burn earns every inch of the payoff.
goodreads 3.73/5 9,072 ratings
storykind_community 4/5 1 rating
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Length400 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 4 books
Spice1/5 · Sweet / tender
PacingSlow
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Slow burn
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Low
- Sweet / tender
- The swoon
- Damaged survivor
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- Forbidden love
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Class difference
- Healing / comfort intimacy
- Earned hope
- Cultural difference
- Slow seduction
- Romantic fulfillment
- Hurt/comfort
- Longing glances
- Expanded empathy
- Mutual pining
- Touch starvation
- Beautiful grief
- Intellectual connection
- Eye contact intensity
- Only soft for them
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Morning / sleepy intimacy
Fantasy promise
- Contemporary romance
- Second chance
- Big city / metropolis
- Contemporary
- The one that got away
- Forced proximity
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- Healing romance
- Right person wrong time
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Slow
- Romantic
- Warm
- Heavy
- Medium
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- Caretaker
- BIPOC MC
- Emotional
- Earnest
- BIPOC love interest (LI)
- Heartwarming
- Asian MC
- Introspective
- Witty
- Asian love interest (LI)
- Hopeful
- Interracial romance
- Tense
- Mental health rep
- Yearning
- Anxiety rep
- Forbidden desire
- Immigrant experience
- Comfort read vibes
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Book details
- Length
- 400 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book