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molly_c 's review for:
Destination Wedding
by Diksha Basu
Destination Wedding was a nice bit of escapism following a woman as she travels with her family and best friend to India for a lavish wedding. Tina is feeling dissatisfied in her love life and career in New York and hopes this trip can be a nice reset. Once they’ve arrived however, she struggles to figure out exactly how she fits in as an Indian-American in Delhi and feels like she has to pretend to be more comfortable in the city and culture than she really is. In the whirlwind week captured in this story, the characters come to realize that love is sometimes found in unexpected places or at unexpected ages (as seen in Tina’s divorced parents).
This was a light book with a few moments of depth particularly concerning how it can feel to be someone torn between two cultural identities and the vast economic divide in India between the wealthy wedding guests and the people living beyond the walls of their exclusive resort. I didn’t find myself very invested in the characters and thought that some of the switches in perspective were confusing and often led into tangents. I do think this could be a fun movie or short series one day though!
This was a light book with a few moments of depth particularly concerning how it can feel to be someone torn between two cultural identities and the vast economic divide in India between the wealthy wedding guests and the people living beyond the walls of their exclusive resort. I didn’t find myself very invested in the characters and thought that some of the switches in perspective were confusing and often led into tangents. I do think this could be a fun movie or short series one day though!