When Dimple Met Rishi

Books | Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

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Sandhya Menon

The inspiration for the Netflix original series Mismatched! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Everyone is talking about this New York Times bestselling rom-com that Mindy Kaling called “utterly charming!” Eleanor & Park meets Bollywood in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about two Indian-American teens whose parents conspire to arrange their marriage.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.

Romantic Comedies

Teen Romance

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Author

Sandhya Menon

Pages

320

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

2017-05-30

ISBN

1481478702 9781481478700

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"Just a fun read, made me laugh so much!"

Jonathan Kent

"Let me start by saying: The plot of this book was interesting and flowed well. Had a lot of important themes embedded in it that made for a good read. That said, Rishi was way too good of a human for Dimple. I could not stand the way she’d victimize herself or act like such a pick me throughout 90% of the book. What’s worse is that Rishi just accepted her passive aggressiveness and would STILL go out of his way for her when she absolutely did not deserve it. All in all, this was a cute book, and I might read more of this series but I was just not a fan of the main character. "

Sara SoDeezy

"truly romantic and just the right amount of sass and intelligence and self driving"

Sierra G

"I haven’t read this, so not sure why it says I did.."

Maddie

"Not sure why everyone else here loved this book. I truly hated it. Dimple was abusive and manipulative towards rishi through their entire relationship. Dimple is so incredibly not like other girls it's repulsive. There is so much wrong with rishi that im not even going to try. I have so much to say about this book but i won't waste my time or yours. It's bad. 0/10. Do not recommend."

aria leroux

"Main character is annoying "

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Mia s

"Just read Summer Job and it was cute!"

Wren Lee

"This book was so good!! I love how both characters push eachother to reach their dreams and break out of the shell of what their parents expect them to be and the love that they have for eachother is so amazing and sweet :)"