I don't want to marry you but you're kinda cute *blushes* While Dimple puts the breaks on any marriage talk, she does form a tentative friendship with Rishi and begins to see what a good guy he is. As the eldest son, he wants to please his parents and believes they know best when choosing his wife and career path even though he secretly harbors other dreams for his future.

Rishi believes whole heartedly in Kismet and Indian tradition. (Actual reenactment on the back book cover lol)ĭimple is pretty sure he’s a stalker since no one told her about Rishi or their impending marriage. “I can't wait to get started on the rest of our lives!” Rishi: “Hello, future wife,” he said, his voice bubbling with glee. Their first meeting at a local coffee shop does not go well thanks to this opening line… Rishi is only attending to meet and declare his intentions to Dimple. This is an effort to spur along their plans for an arranged marriage between the two.ĭimple is at Insomnia Con hoping her game/reward based app to help patients manage their diabetes wins the top prize and to meet her idol, Jenny Lindt, before she heads off to Stanford in the fall. Their parents hatch a plan for Rishi to attend Insomnia Con - the same, 6 week, prestigious summer web development camp at SFSU that Dimple is enrolled in.

Yeah.no. Dimple and Rishi meet under less than ideal circumstances.

Source: ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways. 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?ĭimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. 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. 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. 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? Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. 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.

A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married.ĭimple Shah has it all figured out.

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