But I still have lots of summer reads to review so let's do this:
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
From GoodReads:
Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?
Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
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Dimple and Rishi are definitely your typical couple and their love story will not be your typical one either. Both their parents are from India and they belief on arranged marriage. Rishi is okay with the idea of it and he grew up been the perfect son, respecting his parents and doing everything they told him to do. So when they told him to attend a summer program to meet his future wife, he doesn't even think twice about it. He is all over it, even though it's a program that he is not interested in it and has nothing to do with what he is going to study. He is just looking forward to meet Dimple and hopefully fall in love with her.
Dimple? She is totally the opposite of Rishi, yes her parents are from India too and they believe on arranged marriage but that's where the similarities end. Dimple wants to be a web developer, she doesn't believe on arranged marriage at all, she doesn't even believe marrying young, she just wants to go away to college, have a career and eventually far, far away in the future get married. So, when she asks her parents to attend a summer program away from home and they accept? She is beyond happy, it's the beginning of her dreams, a start to her college experience. What she never expected was when she got there a boy would be there expecting her and telling her a bunch of nonsense about a future and stuff like that. But soon she got what he was saying and she didn't know who she should be more mad at, her parents or at this guy? She explains to Rishi what she wants in life and why she was really there and in return Rishi explains why he really agreed to go there.
He decides to leave but stuff happens and he ends up staying for the summer and together they end up forming a friendship first and of course the more time they spend together...you just have to read until the end to find out what really happens. Because Rishi and Dimple want different things for their future and will they be able to compromise?
I loved it, Dimple and Rishi are so different from each other but opposites do attract, right? And towards the end we get to see how we each have to fight for what we want in life and somethings we have to change things around in order to get them.
It was a lovely summer reading that I totally recommend. 5 out of 5 stars.
XOXO,
Nelia
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