Audiobook Review – When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, Book 1) by Sandhya Menon, Narrated by Sneha Mathan, Vikas Adam (5/5 stars)

Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Length: 10 hours and 45 minutes
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Release Date: May 30, 2017
ASIN: B0728JQFCP
Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Dimple and Rishi series
Source: Borrowed Audiobook from Audible Escapes
Rating: 5/5 stars

“Now that Dimple Shah has graduated, she’s ready for a break from her family – especially from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the Ideal Indian Husband. Ugh. But Dimple knows that her mother must respect that she isn’t interested in doing that right now – otherwise she 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 – during which he’ll have to woo her – he’s totally onboard. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. Although their parents hadn’t planned suggesting the arrangement so soon, when their kids signed up for the same summer program, they figured why not?”

Previous to this I had read “From Twinkle, With Love” which I liked a lot, so I was looking forward to reading another Menon book. I haven’t been reading a lot of contemporary fiction/romance and that may be part of why I loved this book so much. Anyway, I really really loved this book and couldn’t put it down.

I listened to this on audiobook and really enjoyed the audiobook a lot. Dimple and Rishi are narrated by two different people and this was really well done.

This was just a fun, cute, and quirky read with awesome unique characters. I loved both Dimple (with her determination to be an awesome web developer) and Rishi (which his amazing drawing talent).

The dialogue is very witty and there is a lot of humor in this book. It’s one of those books that will have you laughing out loud at one point and then break your heart the next. I found it incredibly engaging and struggled to stop listening to it.

All the surrounding characters are well done too. I enjoyed both Dimple and Rishi’s families and enjoyed the friends they make over the summer.

Overall I really loved this. If you enjoy contemporary romance featuring quirky fun characters I would highly recommend. This is such a feel good book and was exactly what I needed to read when I read it. I plan on checking out more of Menon’s books in the future.