A review by jessgreads
Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Title: Dating Dr. Dil
Author: Nisha Sharma
Genre: Romance
Setting: New Jersey
Month Read: March 2022
Book Type: Hardcover
Publication: 2022
Publisher:  Avon / HarperCollins
Pages: 364
*March Book of the Month Pick



TRIGGER WARNING- 
Sexual Themes / Grieving / Light (?) Emotional Abuse (via family)  




"Kareena couldn't stand there anymore, faking nice, pretending everything was going to be part of a happily ever after. None of this was real."







No Spoiler Summary:
Dating Dr. Dil is a contemporary retelling of The Taming of the Shrew focusing on Kareena (a hopeless romantic, single, thirty year old Indian woman in New Jersey who still lives at home) and Dr. Prem Varma (a doctor and tv host who doesn't believe in love). Both need to be engaged in a number of months, Kareena so she can secure her dowry and buy her family home, and Prem needs to secure funding for his South Asian centered family clinic that he hopes to build. 


Will things work out the way that Prem and Kareena hope when they agree to be fake-engaged? Or will true love ultimately win in the end?







Review:
I'm obsessed. I think the premise is one of the most fun, most original premises I've heard for a contemporary romance series in a little while, and setting it with Indian characters is really fun to read about. For whatever reason I am really into Indian romances, which started a while back when I picked up a copy of When Dimple Met Rishi, and finally delving into non YA Indian romances was so much spicier! I truly loved it. 


Kareena is really relatable, and really likable, and you want to root for her throughout the book. I felt really similarly about Prem, as well, and the split narrations were *chef's kiss*. The side characters are both the best and the worst (love to hate em!), and if you don't want to throw down with Dadi or Bindu by the end of this book, you're better than I am.


If you, like me, have exhausted the works of Evie Dunmore, Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, Casey McQuiston, and you'll find a great new author in Nisha Sharma. It's fresh, it's spicy, it's original, and I think Book of the Month should be applauded at putting such a great book in front of us. I'm extremely happy I last minute switched this into my box because I wanted to hold off at first. (That would have been SUCH a mistake.)



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