A story about a modern day Indian girl in an American culture being forced to marry a random stranger? Hell yeah I'm gonna love this book, was how I bought this book. I've been seeing this all around Bookstagrams and other social media where any bookworm was involved so I was pretty excited when I saw this in a bookstore and I didn't think twice to buy it. So I started reading it quiet excitedly. 
 First thing to clarify despite the fact that I am indeed wearing a Lehenga in my profile picture I am not an Indian. I am Sri Lankan but unfortunately people always ask me whether I am Indian. No peeps, not every brown girl with brown eyes and mostly black hair is Indian. Whatever country I go people ask whether I am Indian not that I am angry at people for mistaking me for Indian, I mean it's common mistake but still every white person we see, we don't ask whether they are American do we? Not trying to be racist here. 
 Despite that minor thing our culture (the Sri Lankan culture) and Indian culture are very much alike. Actually Sri Lanka is very much affected by our neighboring country. We literally look like a tiny dust particle underneath the massive sub-continent and since ancient days have been influenced by India and if we go down in our history basically we've gotten Indian blood running in us. Still we see manwa laage played and danced for in almost all our weddings and I'm literally the only girl in our college gang that can't understand Hindi. They even talk in Hindi so one can just assume the amount of influence India has on us. 
 Ok enough about our cultures, back to the story. How can I say it? This was one of the books that I've recently read that I can totally relate. Like completely relate to not that I was forced to meet my future husband in a college program. Nope nope, not that but the fact how Dimple's parents push her to marry the moment she gets out of high school, the nosy aunts and how you call even completely unrelated people aunty, how you have to maintain the graces of the society, not to embarrass your parents, marry into the same league as your own family (nope, no completely rich boys or completely poor boys for us). I could partly (ok maybe more than partly) relate to Dimple. 
 One thing I did not like about Dimple at the beginning was how she didn't seem to like her culture, how she told she's American despite the fact she's born to a family of Indian parents. Just cuz you were born and raised in America doesn't mean you get to forget your culture. Yes I have many complaints when it comes to our ways but that does not mean I hate my culture. If i had chance again I would completely be born a Sri Lankan but maybe a Sri Lankan living in Britain or something. Where I have endless connection to good and new books. the Indian culture is beautiful, one of the greatest and most beautiful cultures in the world. Dimple should be happy about it. Also the point where she's asking why she should respect the elders of our society? Isn't that basic etiquette? It's not just for Indians hon. It's an etiquette basically seen in all of Asia, may you be Sri Lankan, Indian, Pakistani, Korean or even Japanese. 
 So keeping them aside, now finally about the book. The plot was obviously cute. It's an Indian love story within the American background and here an Indian is falling in love with and Indian. Normally the Indian stories we get we have an Indian falling in love with a caucasian, don't get me wrong I'm not against it but it was refreshing seeing this. It was cute. The only problem I had was that Rishi sometimes did very childish and girly things. I mean how he expected a life style so soon? Yes it's very common in our society but seeing it in paper and reading it made me realize how stupid it is. Also he tried waaay too hard and it was sometimes too sad to read 
 Other than that the story was very cute. their love story cute and realistic (though some may say it is not with the arranged marriage thing but for me it is. I've witnessed too many arranged marriages within my family and I have a feeling I might end up with one too. How sad is my life for me to even think that?) The topic of arranged marriage is very controversial in our society. It is still very much happening but a lot of people want to break free from but a part of us know that according to our culture it's the best choice out there. It was nice to see how people get a peek at our culture and lifestyle. 
 All in all I really liked the story very much. Kudos Sandhya for a cute book (It's funny saying that considering my mother's name is Sandhya too :D )