When Dimple Met Rishi

I enjoy romance movies. But I've never much cared for romance novels (not bodice-rippers romance novels - ew. But even meetcute novels (John Green) don't really appeal to me). I think this helped me understand why. In movies, chemistry between characters can come across in so many ways. In novels,

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you often kinda have to just take the author's word for it. This book is very much like the old Twain quote "Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream." I don't have to simply accept that Rishi and Dimple have astounding chemistry. I can FEEL it in every line.

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I should start off by saying that I do not typically read YA. I have always been more inclined to read adult fiction, even when I was the target audience for YA. Thus, when I do read YA, I try to judge lightly. I know I'm not the target audience and I know it's not my usual thing.

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up When Dimple Met Rishi because two different ladies on Booktube praised this book as being a NEW type of feminist YA. "Dimple's into coding!!" "She's letting nothing--not even a boy--stop her from pursuing her dreams!!" "She don't need no man!!"

A YA book about a strong female character pursuing a career in coding with feminist themes? OK cool. I'm game. I put myself on hold at the library and wait.

When Dimple Met Rishi is the story of Dimple, an Indian-American 18-year-old who is headed off to a coding camp the summer before she starts college at Stanford University. Her parents have selected a husband for her and believe college is merely a stepping stone in her preparation for marriage, but Dimple is not into their plans. Her focus is to go to coding camp and create an app to win the camp prize: a mentorship with her idol, app designer extraordinaire Jenny Lindt.

When she arrives at camp she discovers that her parents agreed to pay for camp only because her husband-to-be Rishi is attending as well. At first, she is furious and even more so when she discovers she and Rishi have to be partners for the entire summer. But Rishi is eager to please and a short time later (like a week later), they are developing feelings for each other. Soon, Dimple is reconsidering what she really wants out of life.

So how was the NEW type of YA book? It was very anti-climatic.

There's a brief discussion of the coding camp and the coding project Dimple and Rishi are working on at the start of the book and then a mention of them working on it in the middle of the book. We also spend a few chapters on the end of the coding project as part of the denouement.

The rest of the book is spent on Dimple and Rishi's relationship and also on a talent show that is held at coding camp.

I can't tell if the Booktube ladies called this feminist YA because they truly think it is or if the usual YA they read is so completely ridiculous that this seems like a breath of fresh air.

I did like reading a book about Indian-American characters written by an Indian-American author, but otherwise this YA seemed rather typical, insta-love included. I mean both of these characters are 18, but they're acting like they have their whole lives figured out! It boggles my mind!

I liked the book, but I didn't love it. It was a fast read and it was cute, but overall it was a letdown for me. Le sigh, the problem of buying into the hype.

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Dimple Shah is surprised and pleased to get permission from her parents to attend InsomniaCon, a 6-week computer coding summer camp for college freshmen in San Francisco. As soon as she arrives on her new adventure, she is harassed by a creepy boy and finds out that her parents only allowed her to

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go so that she could meet this potential future husband. Turns out the boy, Rishi Patel, is not so bad to hang out with although he’s a bit of a goody-two-shoes. They are assigned to work together on the coding project and learn more about each other through the summer. Against Dimple’s rebellious instincts, sparks begin to fly.

Once again I acknowledge that this book was not written for me and that is great, and my opinions only exist within that context. I was happy to read a YA book with Indian-American protagonists, because I don’t think I’ve read anything with an Indian-American protagonist before that was not by Jhumpa Lahiri. Other than that it was mostly just a straightforward teen romance, with not a lot else going on. Dimple and Rishi each explore their relationships with their parents, as kids who are about to go off to college do. I really did not care for Dimple and Rishi’s frequent shared habit of being rude/mean to anyone who they perceived to be “cooler” than them. It’s hypocritical, and makes the world a worse place.

It’s an adequate teen romance (requiring the usual amount of unrealistic plot manipulation to increase the stakes), but I didn’t really connect with or care about either of the main characters. I was much more interested in Dimple’s roommate Celia and Rishi’s brother Ashish.

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Seeing how many people had enjoyed this book I figured it had to be something amazing to read. I ended up expecting a lot from this book only to be disappointed. The concept of the story in itself was one I felt had a lot of potential but the way the story unfolded made it hard to enjoy.

WARNING!:

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THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

So a lot of people are probably going to hate me for this but one of the major reasons why I didn't like this book was Rishi. And before anyone starts attacking me hear me out. It is my opinion that he is a 'too good to be true' kind of character. He didn't really seem to have any flaws other than not following his dreams which was quickly justified/countered by his desire to please his parents. So in short I feel like he lacked more character and somehow him being too much of a goodie-two-shoes made him less convincing and slightly less appealing. Sticking to the topic of being unconvincing I'm going to move on and talk about the way their relationship was developed. It was hard for me to really the romance in this book because although Rishi seemed to like Dimple from the beginning she started by hating him and in less than a day was already completely comfortable with him and enjoying his presence. Now I know that it could have been because of how nice and gentleman like he was and such but honestly if you start hating someone you won't immediately like them. I feel like the whole story was rushed so that we could enjoy more of their romance but unfortunately for me it had the opposite effect.
There are other small details that have me unhappy but I think it appropriate to stop and talk about the good I found in this book. My absolute favorite thing about this book was how we got to witness the events from both of their perspectives. I find it amusing when I get an insight on the thoughts and feelings each character has on the same event/circumstance. There were also things here and there that gave me a good laugh (like when Rishi was giving his brother dating advise claiming he had more experience meanwhile Dimple was giving her friend advise that contradicted his).
All in all it was an ok read but not something to get too hyped about.

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I LOVED When Dimple Met Rishi! It was a fun, quick read that I could not put down.

Dimple is a strong willed eighteen year old girl who just graduated from high school. She gets her parents to allow her to attend SFSU's InsomniaCon where she will create an app and if she wins, will win the

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opportunity to meet web designer Jenny Lindt.

Dimple's betrothed, Rishi, is planning to attend MIT for engineering in the fall, but over summer plans to attend InsomniaCon simply to meet Dimple. Dimple has no idea about her arranged marriage and when Rishi introduces himself to her and greets her as "future wife," she throws her iced coffee at him. Needless to say, things do not start off well between the two of them. Much to Dimple's dismay, she and Rishi are paired up to work on their app, and over the 6 week contest they learn about each other's talents and push one another to grow and pursue their talents.

As the summer comes to a close, they have to decide what they will do about their relationship. Dimple worries about being in a long distance relationship as well as worries about her future. She doesn't want to be tied down at eighteen nor domesticated; she wants a career in web design. I LOVED how Sandya Menon captured the normal struggles and fears that all kids face in going to college, but also the internal struggles of being an ambitious woman or a boy who doesn't want to let his family down. It was also refreshing to learn about the Indian familial culture. I think all teenagers will be able to relate to Dimple and Rishi, and I can't wait to share this book with my students! #weneeddiversebooks

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Dimple and Rishi meet at Insomnia Con, a summer app development competition. The story, told in alternating sections from each of the narrators, traces the relationship between the two main characters. Dimple is passionate about coding and headed to Stanford in the fall. Rishi goes to the camp to

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meet Dimple, their parents are old friends have been plotting an arranged marriage between their children.
The relationship is a rocky one at first. As the two get to know each other friendship and sparks grow. There is a love scene, but it is pretty tame. It's a fun, romantic read that explores issues of gender, privilege, culture in a coming of age story.

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Two Indian-American teenagers meet at a summer app-development convention. Their meeting is arranged by their parents, but while Rishi believes Dimple has agreed to meet him, to see if they’d suit, Dimple is unaware of their parents’ plans. She just wants to build a winning app and go off to

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college to start her career.

I enjoyed this, but not as much as I was expecting to.

1. All the comments I’d seen suggested this was funny: “romantic-comedy”, “laugh out loud” and “hilarious”. And it wasn’t. I don’t mean in the manner of a joke that falls flat for whatever reason - it was still entertaining and likeable. I just didn’t find it humorous. Because humour is subjective, I guess.

2. I wished there was less focus on the romance - or rather, more focus on the other parts of the story, the parts of Dimple and Rishi’s lives that didn’t feel like a fairytale conclusion was inevitable. This is an issue I’ve had with the romance genre before... so again, reading is subjective.

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This is a delightful, heartwarming, slightly far-fetched (but aren't the best stories) teen romance.

There are scenes that subtly reference past bullying, racist incidents aimed at the main characters, misogynistic episodes, plus multiple incidents where the wealth of some characters is used to the

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detriment of others, but they are predominantly seen from Dimple Shah's American born, traditionally raised, feminist middle-class Indian perspective. And she is such a fabulous character.

The other viewpoint character is Rishi Patel, but he only comes in to it once Dimple meets him, so more mention than that risks spoilers.

They meet at 'InsomniaCon', a six week summer residential 'camp' for young adults that is aimed at pairs developing a phone/web app. This is Dimple's passion, and the aspects of the story that deal with her fight to carve out a space for herself in a very white, very male field are very well handled -- the punches are only slightly pulled, because otherwise this would be less a love story and more a scream into the void.

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Previous to this I had read "From Twinkle, With Love" which I liked a lot, so I was looking forward to reading another Menon book. I haven't been reading a lot of contemporary fiction/romance and that may be part of why I loved this book so much. Anyway, I really really loved this book and

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couldn’t put it down.

I listened to this on audiobook and really enjoyed the audiobook a lot. Dimple and Rishi are narrated by two different people and this was really well done.

This was just a fun, cute, and quirky read with awesome unique characters. I loved both Dimple (with her determination to be an awesome web developer) and Rishi (which his amazing drawing talent).

The dialogue is very witty and there is a lot of humor in this book. It's one of those books that will have you laughing out loud at one point and then break your heart the next. I found it incredibly engaging and struggled to stop listening to it.

All the surrounding characters are well done too. I enjoyed both Dimple and Rishi's families and enjoyed the friends they make over the summer.

Overall I really loved this. If you enjoy contemporary romance featuring quirky fun characters I would highly recommend. This is such a feel good book and was exactly what I needed to read when I read it. I plan on checking out more of Menon's books in the future.

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Adorable. Funny. A romance.

Dimple is ready to leave her parents. She loves them, but it’s time to move out on her own and pursue her own dreams of being a successful web developer. Her mother’s dream is for Dimple to marry the ideal Indian husband. Dimple considers herself American and not so

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much Indian, much to her mother’s dismay. Dimple doesn’t find the traditions interesting or something that should dictate or be part of her life. Not wealthy, Dimple hesitates to ask if she can attend a summer program for web developers in San Francisco because it costs $1000, which is a lot of money. She is shocked when her parents agree after she casually mentions it. Six weeks working on developing an app that she thinks will help people has Dimple excited! If she wins the competition, she gets to work with a famous developer who will help develop and sell the app.

Rishi is a very traditional Indian young man who loves his cultures and wants to please his parents because his younger brother doesn’t seem to care about anyone but himself. Rishi needs to honor the family traditions. His parents tell him about a girl they’ve arranged for him to meet and give him a photo in hopes of it working out to be an arranged marriage. He’ll be attending a summer program in San Francisco. After arriving on campus for the program, Rishi sees his beloved. It doesn’t go well.

This novel made me laugh out loud several times, and I smiled almost the entire time I read it. A few times I felt character’s actions were out of character, but I forgive these moments because it’s just a fun read. It would be a perfect summer book. There is also mature content which I didn’t find necessary to the plot for people who had been dating a mere three weeks. The novel is longer than one would think and you will wonder, “What is going to happen?” Ms. Menon takes the novel through a complete arc for a romance. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to those wanting a mature romance. I’m not a huge fan of the cover.

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Well, this turned out to be a fun, super cute read. It had me hooked from the first page, and I especially loved the first time Rishi and Dimple met. It was so painfully awkward that I laughed out loud, something I rarely do when reading.

Rishi and Dimple were both very likeable and absolutely

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perfect for each other. Their parents go it right! I loved that they were smart and nerdy - Dimple being a passionate computer coder and Rishi a comic artist. Neither met the typical teenage stereotype but they were so adorable, both individually and as a couple.

With an eye-catching cover, a delightful plot and continual references to Indian food and culture, "When Dimple Met Rishi" was a winner for me.

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Dimple Shah is a budding programmer who’s just been accepted at Stamford and is heading to a summer coding program at the University of San Francisco where she hopes she’ll have a chance to develop her lives-saving app for diabetics (her father is one). Her mother who’s been nagging her to

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wear make-up and contacts instead of glasses, uses this opportunity to set her up with Rishi Patel – the elder son of immigrants from the same area in India as Dimple’s parents and their idea of an “ideal Indian husband”: he’s mature, thoughtful, romantic, calm, warm, patient, gentlemanly, rich, with a great sense of humor, smart enough to get into MIT and confident enough to defend Dimple from verbal bullies, but modest and unassuming. Understandably Dimple is upset: how could her parents do this to her? Even when she is beginning to fall for him, her inner voice keeps telling her that she is making a mistake:

"She was becoming everything she’d said she didn’t want to be. She had a boyfriend – a pretty serious boyfriend – going into freshman year. And gods, he was so traditional. So trustworthy and practical and stable. He was a savings account. Dimple was eighteen. She didn’t need a savings account. She needed adventure and spontaneity and travel. She needed to make a few bad decisions and have a few boys break her heart. Wasn’t that what she was after? Living life on her own terms?"

It was only in the last chapter that I got to understand her to some degree, which somewhat marred the book for me. I also think it’s a blunder on the author’s part to make Rishi’s father the CEO of a multibillion dollar company, because it makes his claim that he can’t pursue his real passion for making comic books because it’s very hard to break out in that field and he doesn’t want to end up supporting his family and his elderly parents by waitressing sound rather weird. It also makes it harder to imagine that he has no problem committing at 18 to some girl his parents have chosen for him.

What I liked was character development which nobody escapes and almost all the characters (although I found Dimple’s prickliness and inner voice annoying at times). But while I understand the need for the talent show for the plot and aforementioned character development, it makes no sense to me that it played such a big part in a summer coding program and competition, and that attendees were supposed to waste so much time on it when they had barely enough time to develop their apps. I also wished there was more about their programming work and not just Dimple and Rishi’s and more about SF.

What I liked best about this book was how Dimple agreed to borrow her roommate’s beautiful outfit for her date with Rishi, but not makeup and never considered wearing contacts or even getting glasses with a more becoming frame. I also loved it how Rishi, despite being so traditional, was “willing to follow her around the world, wherever she wanted to go, wherever her career took her.”

Huge spoiler (don’t read farther if you haven’t read the book):
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Of course, I also enjoyed Dimple’s realization in the end about how deeply Rishi really cared for her every step of the way (that quote is very moving, but too long to include here). I’m glad to see such YA books, because I think many young women need yardsticks like this.

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I purchased this book from Amazon to read with my bestie @mycornerforbooksand. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Dimple has just graduated High School and is ready to embark on adventure and going to begin college at Stanford in the fall, her only

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problem is her parents are very strict and very cultural. Dimple's mother wants her to find a man and settle down not run off to college. Rishi comes from the same sort of cultured family and both families have arranged for them to meet at Insomnia Con at SFSU this summer. Only Dimple doesn't know. Rishi is set to start his engineering degree at MIT and he's ready to find "the girl" to stand beside him. When they meet it is all but a disaster. What a cute story and a wonderful way to sort through some of the little steps in life that make you a bigger person. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Amazon, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

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Predictable but kind of cute...

This was such a fun, quick read that grabbed me right from the start. The book moves between Dimple and Rishi's voice, as they both head to a six week summer coding camp called Insomnia Con the summer before college. For once, the female lead takes a back seat to the romance factor. Dimple is all

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about winning, her idea for an app that will help people is very motivating. Unknown to Dimple, the Patels and Shahs are old friends and hoping Rishi and she will make a good couple. Rishi is the one who wears his heart on his sleeve, hoping for a meet up that will rival his parents legendary family story of how they first met. Menon takes great care to move these honored Indian tradition into the 21st century with wonderful results. I'd read this again in a heartbeat.

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I actually finished this!?????????????????????!
Rating 2.25 stars I guess?

Basically, I didn't like this book. But before starting to rant let me say the things I actually found cool in it.

Things I kinda liked:

->The characters were Indian
->The whole Insomnia Con idea
->Rishi's bro


Things I didn't

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like:
Eveything else???

Okay let's start this from the beginning shall we?
DIMPLE IS SO ANNOYING
Through the whole thing she's like: "Oh I'm sooooooo different because I don't wear makeup and wear glasses and like computers"

Just... NO.
Just because you don't wear makeup and you keep your hair short doesn't mean you're "different" nor "better"
And girls who wear makeup are certainly not dumb or superficial. They just do it because they like it, they wear it because they feel good in it.
So get your head out of your ass and stop being so judgmental!

Basically the whole plot was that of two Indian teens who are paired up by their parents, one of them is against it but eventually they fall for each other and blah blah blah.

Humm, why does this feel like déja-vu?
Oh right!
Because I've read a gazillion books with the same exact plot on Wattpad!!

I also didn't like how Dimple was all snarky remarks and arguments with her mother, but she had no backbone whatsoever with people outside.
I mean, if I were in her place when that Evan dick told her "Nice tight pants, too bad you don't have enough ass to fill them"
I would've simply said "Nice shorts, too bad you don't have enough balls to fill them"

And we all know she IS capable of such replies.

It bothered me how she was constantly judging other girls, comparing herself to them then thinking that she would never be like that simply because she was smart.
YOU CAN BE A PROGRAMMER AND WEAR MAKEUP
God damn it.
As a programmer myself I was offended by her way of thinking.

Now, off to Rishi;
He was too damn Perfect it was annoying
He was this handsome, rich, nice boy who respected everyone, and wanted nothing more than to make his parents proud and happy even if that meant sacrificing his own dreams.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Now, I know this may sound like I'm attacking the author or whatever. I am NOT. This book had a nice idea, but it tried so hard not to be 'like other books' it ended up collecting all the cliches out there. Shall we count them?

Okay here we go:


->Dimple thinks she's so 'different' because she doesn't wear makeup like 'other girls'
->Arranged marriage turns to real love (Wattpad much?)
->Rishi is basically perfect
->There are asshole rich snobs who hate them
->Insta love
->Turns out they've met when they were little
->They both go behind each other's backs to help each other achieve their dreams
->She's such a talented dancer but she doesn't know it
->Roomate is heartbroken bc of the rich snob
->They lose bc the sobs daddy bribed people
->She gets praised by her idol and gets a chance to work with her
->They fight, spend a long time miserable then realise they were both wrong
->They go to apologize and can't find each other bc each went to the other

I don't think I need to go on.

Before I end this, here are a bunch of quotes that made me wanna smack my head on the wall:

-"She was flat chested, insisted on wearing glasses and no makeup, refused to grow her hair, and commonly occupied spaces -like Insomnia Con- that seemed to be implicitly reserved for men. Even when she was in elementary and middle school, she always chose computers as her choice of centers while all other more popular girls seemed to cluster together in art or reading"
Well fuck you too! Once again, liking computers or arts or music or reading or math or whatever doesn't make you more or less girly. There is no such things as things that are meant for girls and things that are meant for boys. There's just something called PERSONAL CHOICE.

-"And here's my proof: As soon as you hit the airport, you can smell the third world countries"
Fuck you asshole.

-"She stuck out her tongue prettily"
PRETTILY? Really? Dimple basically says that as an insult.

-"Silly boys, coding is for girls"
No, coding is for everyone who is passionate about it no matter their gender, race or religion

-"Her presence was preceded by the smell of her perfume, something fruity and bubbly that threatened to choke Dimple with two hands."
Stop being a prick to other girls you ass!

-Goofy and funny and talented ans sweet and so serious about his culture
As I previously mentioned, Mr. Perfect

-"Really, it was sort of refreshing to have a boy prefer her company to a girl like Isabelle's. That literally had never happened before"
Should I spell it for you? T A S T E S
Also, stop talking about other girls as if they're diseases god damn it!

-Not only was Celia smart and glamorous and rich and beautiful, she also spoke pssable Spanish, excellent French, and fluent English. While Dimple struggled with both her Hindi and her Serengeti-wild hair
I know we all have our insecurities and all, but c'mon! It gets annoying after the 50th time you compare yourself with others

-"She looked effortlessly 'movie star', Dimple wanted to hate her"
Okay seriously fuck off Dimple.

-"Evan, who's had a thousand hookups with other girls since you guys got together?"

What bothers me about this is the fact that she only thought about this but didn't say it. Like wtf???
Rule #1 of friendship: When your friend's boyfriend is cheating on her and you know that YOU BLOODY TELL HER! You don't just sit around while she continues on with a toxic relationship with an unfaithful twat!

-"If Rishi had known he was being so uncool, he would've trashed his phone. It just went to show, you could be a player, but really connecting with a woman took smarts. Which, obviously,
Rishi had."
Well congrats Rishi, your time with Dimple is now rubbing off on you. Not only are you a self-centered know-it all, but now you also think you're better than everyone!

Also, how the hell did they even manage to get any coding done if they spent all their time dating and being all love-y dovey and shit???

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuh, I sometimes spend DAYS without human interaction so I can finish coding something, that's why us programmers are known to be very antisocial. It's because once we immerse in our work, we would lose focus if we did something else. I know that firsthand.
So this book didn't do coding justice!

This book just was NOT for me.
I've honestly read better things on Wattpad with similar settings.
I liked the whole cultural thingy, but the rest was a big fat nope.

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Loved this book. A great YA that really gets into two completely different viewpoints people. A very strong contemporary teenage girl and a teenage boy who embraces his Indian family's viewpoint of arranged marriage.

Accidentally'd a book in one sitting, but that's because I checked out There's Something About Sweetie from the library but it's overdue now and I figured I should read the first book before the companion.

A cute debut though I'm skeptical about college kids letting some pre-college 18 year olds in

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their parties, and the ending stretches my disbelief quite a bit.

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I believe this was a YA title, or at least the story seem to be aimed at that group of girls.

Dimple & Rishi are young Indian-American teens both going to Insomnia Com, a pre-semester intensive at San Francisco State University for creating apps.

Dimple is creative as non-traditional as an

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Indian-American girl can be. Rishi on the other hand is as traditional as the eldest Indian-American son can be... There can only be conflicts between the two.

What Rishi knows but disastrously Dimple doesn't is that their parents have matched them up for marriage and that sending them to SFSU is the best way for them to meet seemingly without parental intervention.

So when Rishi sees Dimple waiting for her roommate & rushes up to her & greets her as "future wife" she throws her iced coffee in his face. So begins an awkward & openly hostile friendship.

It was a "cute" light read.... I don't think I'll be reading others by this author.

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Sweet fun and filled with culture.
Fabulous narration.
This was a fun break from all the doom and gloom of real life. The two main characters were good honest people trying to find their way in the world while respecting their families. Their culture has strong roots and I loved seeing them work in

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a world that doesn't. Really enjoyable a perfect spring/summer romance read.

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So cute! A gentle and sweet romance. Loved the characters, great story about following your heart, in work and in love.

Digital audiobook performed by Sneha Mahan and Vikas Adam.

This is a cute YA romcom featuring two young Indian-American students who are trying to keep their parents happy while pursuing their own dreams.

Dimple Shah has her own dreams, and they do NOT include allowing her mother to pressure her

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into an arranged marriage with an “ideal Indian husband.” Still she’s surprised when her parents agree to pay for her attendance at a summer conference for aspiring web designers.

Rishi Patel is a dutiful son, and a hopeless romantic. He actually welcomes having his parents arrange his romance. So, he is happy to attend the summer program (though he has only a passing interest in web design) because his “future bride” will be there.

Things get off to a rocky start, but their friendship slowly builds to something more … or does it? Told in alternating viewpoints, Menon gives the reader a satisfying and balanced romance.

Sneha Mahan and Vikas Adam take turns narrating the audiobook. They really bring these characters to life. Very effective audio performance.

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2,75 stars

Cheesy, cute, corny, cliched. This wasn't bad , exactly. Unoriginal? Certainly. It had some funny moments and a lot of eyerolly moments. The best bits were the ones shedding light on Indian culture, as well as the family relationships. A romantic comedy for teenagers who've never read or

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seen one before.

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Right from the beginning this audiobook held my attention.
That says a lot. Usually with an audiobook, I get distracted easily or fade in and out of listening. With this story, I actaully found myself stopping to listen to what was happening.
Dimple and Rishi are such great characters. You want them

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to be together. You are so focused on being their cheer squad through this whole love story. Two people, strangers, arranged yet not arranged. All the makings of a great tale and it didn't disappoint.
You get so invested in this story and the characters. It was everything you wanted and more!
Romance fans are gonna love this one, just like I did!

4.5/5

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