Most of the time I really enjoyed her character, mainly because she’s ambitious and career-motivated, but the amount of girl hate indeed clashed for me, personally, about her character. Dimple is constantly putting down loads of the “mean girls” in this book, which is literally almost all the remaining girls in the book. I wished this book celebrated girls in STEM without throwing girls who don’t go into those subjects under the bus. Dimple literally never fails to mention how different she is to other girls because she’s into STEM subjects and how she’s not like those art girls. Just because the lines “Not like other girls” wasn’t used, doesn’t mean that wasn’t there. I think I’ve come to the decision that I liked these characters separately, but not together, they’re a damn mess that really doesn’t work well.ĭimple was a very irritating main lead.

Like there’s an app contest which later leads to a talent show which leads to even more confusion. The story is supposed to follow their romance, but I wished it was a bit more consistent in its background. Dimple and Rishi both enter this programming course but the lack of them is doing what they came for is odd. If it were just a little bit clearer, it would’ve improved this story so well. I would say I was severely disappointed by When Dimple Met Rishi. Only, Dimple has no idea that she’s being set up while Rishi thinks he’s meeting his future wife. This is one OTP I won’t be forgetting anytime soon.Promised to each other by their parents, Dimple and Rishi finally meet at a programming course.

But the couple were so charming individually and together that I was able to look past the randomness and simply enjoy the ever-growing progress of their relationship. We got the hilarious first meeting, the strict friendship agreement, and the inevitable romantic tension (with a healthy dose of butterflies) - what more could ya ask for? There were some storylines thrown in that didn’t completely land for me, like a random talent show in the middle of the couple’s coding program. Dimple and Rishi’s pre-arranged marriage reminded me so much of the contract romance trope in k-dramas, which I just eat up. A good, cheerful time with two Indian-American teens navigating love for the first time. Fast-forward to two years later, in quarantine, and needing a good, cheerful read to take my mind off things. I’d remind myself to get on that every time I saw the book in store or advertised online, but I just never came around to it. She was such a delight in person that I made note to read her work.

I had the pleasure of seeing the lovely Sandhya Menon at a panel for the Texas Book Festival, where I first heard of her and her book When Dimple Met Rishi.

When dimple met rishi book review