I've been a fan of Pinky since we first met her in the previous books & I was very excited to finally get her point of view, especially since this book had a fake dating trope. Unfortunately, this one didn't live up to my expectations.

Pinky and Samir are both great characters. She’s passionate and he’s dedicated and there is a lot of potential between them, but I didn't quite feel that spark between them & didn't really enjoy their romance... which made it really hard to continue to pick up this novel and read.

The plot was a little slow for me, I found there to be a lot of repetition and it just didn't keep me engaged at all.

Overall, I did enjoy the story and there were some sweet moments, but honestly, Sandhya's other books were a lot better compared to this one.

I loved this book! It was quick and easy to get through, whitty and good to get out of a slump! Had so much fun reading it I flew through it

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This was a cute YA story. It's exactly was you'd want when picking up a book like this

Another great YA contemporary with representation and diverse characters. This follows the fake dating trip and Sandhya Menon's writing is so fresh and entertaining. Easy to read - I read it in one sitting. Highly recommend and Menon is now an auto buy author for me!

I enjoyed the last book in this series! Really liked the characters and how this series ended! Looking forward to reading more books by this author.

Unfortuneately I just didn't mesh with this book and decided to DNF it.
I just wans't for me, which is unfortunate because I really wanted to love it.

5/5 ⭐️ for 10 Things I Hate About Pinky

Thank you very much to NetGalley and Simon Teen for early access to the ebook! I am such a huge fan of Sandhya Menno and her books, especially her Dimpleverse series, and this book is a prime example! This is the third instalment in the series, and we follow Pinky Kumar and Samir Jha, who we got to know in There’s Something About Sweetie. I loved learning even more about these two, their backgrounds, and what makes them tick. Plus, I’m a sucker for a fake-dating scenario. In this case, I thought it worked very well for the story overall, and worked for the characters’ personalities! One other think I wanted to note that I really enjoyed about this book is the focus on environmental advocacy, and speaking up for what you believe, even if your family & friends don’t approve. This part of Pinky’s story and personality really helped her come alive! Part of this, too, is her relationship with her Mom which although complicated, the dialogue and events of the book really brought them closer as Mother and Daughter.

If you haven’t read any of Sanhya’s books, definitely go check them out starting with When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something About Sweetie before diving into this lovely gem of a ya contemporary romance.

Without any surprise, another 5 stars book from Sandhya Menon! My heart exploded in a million heart emojis when I finished reading it. I knew that any story with Pinky would be good, but I wasn't prepared for it to be this good🥰

Many thanks to Simon and Schuster Canada for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I liked this book, but it was not my favourite in this series. I generally like a hate-to-love romance, but in this case, I think because I wasn’t as into these characters, the romance was not as fun for me as others in the series.

But I liked Pinky’s passion and dedication, and I definitely had a smile on my face when I finished reading!

As always, Sandhya's writing is so much fun! I love the dimpleverse too, and it was so much fun seeing some of my favorite characters come back in this. I loved seeing the romance in this too, pinky and Samir are so much fun to read about.

Another very well done story by Sandhya Menon. I always look forward to when she has a new book out and this one lived up to my expectations. Especially considering that she used one of my favourite tropes!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

I couldn't put this book down until I finished reading it. I like the familiarity of knowing these characters, as they were previously introduced in the other books. It was nice to get to know the characters more and read about their lives. It was also fun to imagine how the characters spent their summer at their Lake House. I totally recommend this book.

This book is a delightful follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There's Something about Sweetie. It 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 difficult 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 such as previous boyfriends, she hatches a plan for Samir to pose as her perfect boyfriend for the summer and Samir agrees. 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.

Pinky is a rebellious, social justice warrior. She’s known for getting in trouble and dating delinquent boys. When the barn at their summer house burns down, her mom immediately thinks Pinky did it, rather than Pinky’s perfect cousin Dolly. To prove that Pinky didn’t do it, she tells her mom she couldn’t have been in the barn with a boy because she has a boyfriend. The only problem is that Pinky has to find a perfect boyfriend to keep up with the lie she told her mom. She invites Samir to stay with them for the summer, when she finds out he didn’t get the law firm internship that he applied for. In exchange for helping Pinky by being her fake boyfriend, Pinky promises Samir that her high powered lawyer mother will give him an internship next year. It all goes according to plan until Pinky and Samir develop real feelings for each other.

This is the perfect summer romance! Pinky was such a fun character. I loved her style, with her rainbow dyed hair. I imagined it as much more rainbow coloured in the story than is pictured on the cover. She was the opposite of clean-cut Samir, who was always dressed up. Even though they were opposites in looks and personalities, they made an adorable couple.

This is the last book in the “Dimple-verse” about these characters. Since Pinky and Samir were away from their hometown of San Francisco, the other characters from past novels didn’t appear in this novel, other than a brief appearance by Ashish. I usually don’t like it when books in a series don’t include all the characters, because they don’t feel connected. However, since Pinky and Samir were away from home in this story, it worked for the plot to not include their friends from home.

I loved this summer romance!

Thank you Simon and Schuster Canada for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Sandhya Menon has done it again! 10 Things I Hate About Pinky was such a fun read! It was especially fun to read during the summer months because the setting is so summer-themed. The setting, Pinky’s family’s summer house in Cape Cod, is actually one of my favourite parts about the book. Menon’s descriptions really took me there, feeling the heat, smelling ice cream, sunscreen, and saltwater, as well as hearing laughter and butterfly wings on the air. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

Especially with COVID-19 still making it close to impossible to go anywhere this summer, I really appreciated getting to travel to somewhere that isn’t here through 10 Things I Hate About Pinky.

Pinky and Samir, as well as Pinky’s cousin and other supporting characters, were also fun to read about! Their interactions and encounters felt very real as if I was at the summer house with them rather than just imagining them in my head while reading words off a page. I really feel like I got to know Pinky and Samir, and even though I didn’t really really feel their chemistry, I still enjoyed the journey I got to join them on as well as all of the sub-plots!

This book, like other Menon books, also has a focus on family—how a teen can interact with and feel about their family, and how older members of the family interact and feel about the teenager. Parts definitely took me back to when I was a teen myself while also making me nod in understanding at some of the things my parents had to go through with me, now that I’m an adult.

I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to read an advanced copy of 10 Things I Hate About Pinky and I recommend it whether you’re a fan of Sandhya Menon already, or if she’s new to you entirely! Also, if any of her other books weren’t for you, I would recommend 10 Things I Hate About Pinky to you still, because each of Menon’s books is different with new characters, new plots, and new lessons!

DNF at 20%
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To be honest, I do not think this book was for me. Who knows? Maybe the author's YA works are not really for me anymore. That is very unfortunate because I very enjoyed ``When Dimple Met Rishi`` when it came out and it was three years ago. Maybe it is just the fact that my reading tastes changed over time. Her writing style tends to appeal to younger readers, considering that it is trying to be funny and quirky, but it felt juvenile to me. I may give her adult book a try when it comes out while keeping my expectations low.

I may pick it back up and finish it, but there are other books that interest me more at the moment.

Thank you very much to NetGalley for providing me an e-ARC and my very first ARC in the same occasion!

When you pick up a Sandhya Menon book you can pretty well assume a few things; you will laugh out loud, you will fall in love with at least one of the characters, and there will be a very sweet, very happy ending. These are feel good stories that always leave me with a smile on my face. Pinky and Samir’s story was no exception. It was just as humorous and heart-warming as I was expecting. Of course there was some serious angst and drama on the way to happiness but I knew it would get there in the end.

Pinky and Samir are complete opposites with Pinky being rebellious and wild and Samir being very regimented and controlled. I loved Pinky’s fearless social activism even when some of her causes were not traditional. How cute was her racoon hospital? I really related to her love of animals and saving Drama Queen the opossum. I saved many needy animals as a kid and got them to the proper rescues. No opossums in Alberta though! Samir was also very relatable with his planner and rigid scheduling. This is how I got through University, with every hour booked. I think that like me many people are a blend of the two personality types. Although Pinky and Samir’s madcap adventures often seemed ridiculous nothing ever seemed out of the realm of possibility to me. It was hijinks taken to the extreme and I can’t help but grin just thinking about it!

10 Things I Hate About Pinky is the fake dating, enemies to lovers romance the world needs right now. It was wholesome and sweet without being overly twee. I’m not generally a romance reader but these stories have charmed the pants off of me. Will there be more books in the Dimple and Rishi universe? I sure hope so. Sometime a warm and positive breather from the world is just what is needed. I don’t know about you but I need a time out from reality to a kinder, gentler world where love is always requited and the endings are always happy.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada for providing an Electronic Advance Reader Copy via NetGalley for review.

This was a very cute addition to the When Dimple met Risha collection. Pinky is a strong and opinionated teen girl who feels like her family does not accept her for who she is. It is an interesting story of being true to yourself, loving others as they are and accepting each other.

Menon’s best book to date.

Fake dating is a trope after my own heart, so I was expecting a lot, especially considering how much I’ve enjoyed all of Menon’s previous works.

This story delivered and then some. Pinky has been a favourite of mine since we first met her. Strong willed and fierce, she was always a scene stealer. Being the star of her own story, her’s is Menon’s best written character arc in her five released books.

I definitely have a new favourite.

(PS: Drama Queen is a STAR)

This book was cute! It was a lighthearted read about Pinky, a hard-headed, impulsive, and passionate teenager, who asks Samir, a boy she doesn't really get along with, to be her fake boyfriend for the summer.

There were a few things about this book that were pretty cliche. I also felt the book took too long to get into and sped up too fast at the end, and I feel like the story didn't really have a purpose besides maybe to say that opposites attract? Also, I am not a fan of enemies-to-lovers.

But otherwise, it was okay and I will definitely read Sandhya Menon's other books!

Review of ‘10 Things I Hate About Pinky’, by Sandhya Menon
I’m really enjoying the indirect, gentle introduction of Indian culture in books such as this one, which I think of as Bollywood in book format, all the more that the book doesn’t delve in long and convoluted or short and awkward explanations of what cultural thing is happening. I mean, who needs that in the age of Google? Either you know your thing, or you have the opportunity to pick up your phone and Google it. And if you are not interested, the cultural flavours in the book don’t distract from the story at the heart of the book. I mentioned this about a few other books by Indian authors featuring Indian protagonists living in North America: these are such great tools to widen the scope of the vision of my friends who have never left a relatively small area of their region and thus don’t have much exposure to the world. I mean, some of them were shocked, when they saw alfalfa in my sandwich, that I was eating grass. And this happened while I was enrolled at a popular programme in an internationally renown university! So keep these coming and I’ll definitely be both reading and gifting them.