A review by meowlo
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
3.0
This was an easy, fairly cute read with some problems.
There was a WHOLE LOT of “not like the other girls” trope going on here, as well as woman on woman jealousy, hate, etc. This book is about teenagers, so it’s slightly excusable because teenagers definitely can be that way, but it was annoying to read.
The first scene of them two together was more than a bit much. Rishi “attacked” her by walking over and making a joke? Hm. I don’t know how the author defines “attack” but it doesn’t seem to be in the way the rest of us do.
Dimple goes off about misogyny a couple times in this book and it feels heavy handed. Are these things misogynistic? Yes. Do I need you to spoon feed that to me? No.
I felt similarly about the ending. Is it crappy and obvious why the “aberzombies” (I never want to see or hear that phrase again) got what they got? Yes. You don’t need to have a character sit me down and head pat the lesson to me or to Dimple. Dimple knows why it happened. She doesn’t need to be told so therefore, I, as the reader, also don’t need to be told.
Dimple can be incredibly mean to people but there is some character growth on that front, I guess. She eventually stops speaking before thinking. Good for her. She slips up when emotional, but don’t we all.
Anyways. It was a cute easy read but, to reiterate, has a decent amount of flaws. I wouldn’t recommend this book to my friends unless they were already holding it in their hands, desperate for anything at all to read on a summer day.
There was a WHOLE LOT of “not like the other girls” trope going on here, as well as woman on woman jealousy, hate, etc. This book is about teenagers, so it’s slightly excusable because teenagers definitely can be that way, but it was annoying to read.
The first scene of them two together was more than a bit much. Rishi “attacked” her by walking over and making a joke? Hm. I don’t know how the author defines “attack” but it doesn’t seem to be in the way the rest of us do.
Dimple goes off about misogyny a couple times in this book and it feels heavy handed. Are these things misogynistic? Yes. Do I need you to spoon feed that to me? No.
I felt similarly about the ending. Is it crappy and obvious why the “aberzombies” (I never want to see or hear that phrase again) got what they got? Yes. You don’t need to have a character sit me down and head pat the lesson to me or to Dimple. Dimple knows why it happened. She doesn’t need to be told so therefore, I, as the reader, also don’t need to be told.
Dimple can be incredibly mean to people but there is some character growth on that front, I guess. She eventually stops speaking before thinking. Good for her. She slips up when emotional, but don’t we all.
Anyways. It was a cute easy read but, to reiterate, has a decent amount of flaws. I wouldn’t recommend this book to my friends unless they were already holding it in their hands, desperate for anything at all to read on a summer day.