This review was originally posted on Andi's ABCs 
 Originally, When Dimple Met Rishi wasn't on my radar. To be honest I hadn't even heard of the book. Somehow it managed to slip right past my contemporary romance love detector. Luckily I have a very kind friend that read it, told me about it, and lent it to me. And let me tell you, thank goodness for this friend because without her I would have missed a really great book with a fantastic group of characters and a story to back it all up. 
 I'm not going to pretend I know a lot of Dimple and Rishi's culture, arranged marriages, family obligations. I truly don't, and that is part of what drew me to the book to begin with. I love learning more about those things while reading a truly great contemporary romance. And Sandhya Menon did exactly that. She let me see a little but about a culture that is very different from my own and made me understand a little more about the arranged marriage tradition that I didn't understand before. Seeing it through the eyes of two teens, on opposite sides of the matter, really was a great way to do it. 
 Because honestly Rishi and Dimple couldn't have been any more different. They were 100% the other's opposite. Rishi was all for tradition and family obligations while Dimple wanted to be free and make her own choices and not be weighed down by something she felt was out of her control. But as the story progressed and Dimple and Rishi got to know each other something amazing happened. They both started to grow-up and think about compromise and what was important to them and if they could both have what they wanted. They learned about being an adult from one another and the choices they were making for their future and I LOVED that. I loved that there was no right or wrong answer and that they learned that. 
 Honestly there isn't much I didn't love about When Dimple Met Rishi. I thought all the extra side stories were a little distracting and just that, extra. But I truly did enjoy this story of two people deciding what was right for them even if it went against everything they believed to be true. It was truly swoony to watch these two get to know each other and learn what it is like to be with someone. That is what When Dimple Met Rishi was to me, an amazing story of growing up. Definitely pick this book up. It will become a fave.