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| Companion to When Dimple Met Rishi |
The delightful follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie, which follows Ashish’s friends Pinky and Samir as they pretend to date in order to achieve their individual goals, to disastrous and hilarious results.
Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe.
Samir Jha might have a few…quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless lists he makes in his planner and the way he schedules every minute of every day, but those are good things. They make life predictable and steady.
Pinky loves lazy summers at her parents’ Cape Cod lake house, but after listening to them harangue her about the poor decisions she’s made (a.k.a. boyfriends she’s had), she hatches a plan. Get her sorta-friend-sorta-enemy—who is a total Harvard-bound Mama’s boy—to pose as her perfect boyfriend for the summer.
When Samir’s internship falls through, leaving him with an unplanned summer, he gets a text from Pinky asking if he’ll be her fake boyfriend in exchange for a new internship. He jumps at the opportunity; Pinky’s a weirdo, but he can survive a summer with her if there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
As they bicker their way through lighthouses and butterfly habitats, sparks fly, and they both realize this will be a summer they'll never forget.
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My Review: 5/5 Stars
Finally! We get Samir and Pinky's story. These two have been circling one another for what feels like forever, though in reality it is just from the last book, There's Something About Sweetie. Complete and polar opposites Samir and Pinky aren't supposed to make sense. They fight all the time and are constantly sniping at one another. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Pinky is tired of her mother constantly accusing her of things she didn't do and just her overall attitude toward Pinky. When emotions run high she tells her parents that she is dating a nice guy for once! Too bad he doesn't exist...yet. Samir was looking forward to his internship in DC. His first taste of freedom since forever. He's had a rough amount of years with his mom being sick and since she recovered, he still hasn't let go of his scheduled and controlled life. But when he arrives in DC, he learns that the internship falls through. Now what? After Pinky learns that Samir's internship fell through, she thinks she found her solution. Bring home the nice boy that her parents would approve of and they will get off her back. She makes a deal with Samir, be her fake boyfriend for the summer at their lake house in the east coast and in return she'll get him an internship with her mom at her law office. And somehow Samir finds himself accepting. A summer of fake dating between Samir and Pinky, what could go wrong? You got to love their arguments. Very entertaining and these two know how to get under one another's skin. But when they aren't fighting, things get real. And soon they find that they have more in common than they thought. And that they are rocks for one another. Sturdy and can just simply to one another. They balance one another. And with each day that goes by they find themselves falling for one another a little more each day. But will it just lead to heartbreak? Will they be too different? I really loved this story. Lot of fun and it filled with such sweet moments between Pinky and Samir. Great book!
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