Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Back in 2016 this was on my nonexistent "2017 anticipated releases" shelve. I did have a different kind of reading taste back then, but it's always nice to come back to the cute contemporary stories I used to love.
Now that graduating high school is over with, Dimple Shah is more than ready for a break from her family. She is tired of her Mamma's obsession with finding her the "Ideal Indian Husband." Dimple wants to be more than an arranged marriage set up by her parents. She strives to be one of the futures best web developers; She is hoping that her parents respect her dreams enough to let her go to a summer program for aspiring web developers. So when they agree to let her go, she thinks that maybe they believe that she can do more than be a wife, they would've have paid for the program otherwise! Wrong. Rishi Patel is adamant about being the man his parents want him to be. He cherishes tradition and stability and being a part of something that, he believes, is bigger than himself. Rishi wants to live up to his parents expectations and become everything his brother is trying, desperately, not to be. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him, he is totally on board to woo her. 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 they both started gravitating toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not? Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out but when they come together, they might figure out that opposites clashing is love working hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
This was a cute, refreshing contemporary story. I needed something exactly like this after finishing my previous book (People Kill People ~ Ellen Hopkins). These are the kind of stories I used to read, exclusively, all the time but then I discovered more thought provoking novels (thank god). However, When Dimple Met Rishi was still kind of different than the repeating plots I once read, it had different clichés and had diversity that the other novels lacked. This diversity was shown through a different language, representing their culture and really proving that the it wasn't just for show. Which I respect on a high level.
The one thing that I really didn't enjoy was that despite the setting of the book being at a web developers summer program for six whole weeks, there wasn't that much put into that aspect of the book. I would've enjoyed a background on why Dimple wanted to become a web developer (you could say it's because of her dad...) and what the camp taught her to help improve with her aspiring web developer dream. It would've made the story a bit lengthier but I think the book was really missing details form this and it would've made the story that much better. It would've taken away some of the cliché which could've helped it stand out among all of the contemporary novels like these.
If you want an enjoyable, contemporary, palette cleanser, I would recommend this story.
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