His passion is drawing, specifically comics but this is not a wise and trusted career path so instead his degree will be something parent approved that will result in a good career. Like Dimple he’s also enrolled in the summer school program.

His parents traditional values and hopes are very important to him and he’s a willing participant in their plans and dreams for him. Rishi has also just graduated high school and will be starting at MIT in the fall. This is not something Dimple is interested in at all. Dimple’s mother is very traditional and believes that her university degree will be a stepping stone to what is really important – finding an IIH (Ideal Indian Husband). She’s very surprised when her parents agree to allow her to go with no protest (although she will discover their ulterior motive soon enough). It’s something she’s really thought about and it’s important to her.

Prior to starting there she wants to undertake a summer program which she believes will not only give her a good grounding for beginning her degree but also enable her to possibly meet her idol and win the chance to develop her very own app. She lives and breathes coding and will be doing a degree in computer science. I was really excited for this, I’d heard such good things about it and it felt so different to a lot of the YA I’ve been reading.ĭimple has just graduated high school and will start at Stanford University after summer break. Yesterday was such a perfect day for reading – I have a recliner that gets all the winter sun and it’s my favourite place to read. It arrived yesterday so I decided to drop all my other plans and read it straight away. I ordered this online recently after a couple of weeks looking for it locally with no success. Could sparks fly between this odd couple, or is this matchmaking attempt doomed to fail? Told from the dual perspectives of two Indian American protagonists, Dimple is fighting her family traditions while Rishi couldn’t be happier to follow in the footsteps of his parents. Perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon, WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI is a frothy, funny contemporary romance set at a coding convention in San Francisco over one exciting summer. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways. His parents think Dimple is the perfect match for him, but she’s got other plans…ĭimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out.

He’s rich, good-looking and a hopeless romantic.

Her main aim in life is to escape her traditional parents, get to university and begin her plan for tech world domination. The arranged-marriage YA romcom you didn’t know you wanted or needed…

When dimple met rishi book review