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When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
4.0

This book is not well written. One of the two protagonists is unbearable about 60% of the time. The plot is thin.

HOWEVER

It was cute enough and fun enough and different enough that I enjoyed reading it. I vocally responded to parts of it, even if it was just to mutter 'you moron' or 'but why would that happen?', and in my book, it's a very good thing when a text engages me that way. I seldom pick up YA books because they can generally be summed up as 'misunderstood white kids fall in love'. At least this bucked the trend a bit. I'm here for more diversity in YA. I'm here for YA books with a female protagonist who isn't a total manic pixie dream girl.

I'm not quite so here for the Teen rated fanfiction writing style, but we can't have everything.