As Kismet Would Have It by Sandhya Menon

As Kismet Would Have It (Dimpleverse, #1.5)

by Sandhya Menon

Will Dimple and Rishi find their happily ever after? Find out in this funny, romantic, endlessly charming enovella companion to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi!

Dimple Shah has a lot of opinions about marriage, but they boil down to this: It’s not for her. Sure, she loves her boyfriend, Rishi, but why does she need to validate that with an institution that has historically never favored the woman? Why go through all that hassle?

Rishi Patel deeply disagrees. He believes in the power that comes with combining love and tradition, and when the time comes, wants nothing more than to honor those things in a huge celebration with his friends and family. He knows Dimple loves him, but in hearing her rant about how marriage is a “construct of hegemonic masculinity” for the millionth time, a small, niggling part of him worries that it’s not the institution of marriage Dimple has a problem with; maybe it’s him.

The two lovebirds find themselves at a philosophical impasse. Can they find a way to work it out, or does kismet have other plans?

Reviewed by jeannamichel on

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This was such an adorable novella. It was great to check back in with Dimple and Rishi. This also features Sweetie who is the protagonist of the companion novel. And as much as As Kismet Would Have It should be read after reading both When Dimple and Rishi and There's Something About Sweetie, it does focus primarily on Dimple and Rishi rather than Sweetie and Ashish. (I read it before reading There's Something About Sweetie and found there to be minor spoilers for the book.)

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