Ok so this was a very refreshing read for me! I really enjoyed the first half but it started to go downhill for the second—where the connection suddenly felt unnatural and idk how that’s even possible when i clearly felt it for the first half. i did a lot of thinking and i figured it must be the smut that ruined it bc for some reason the intensity felt forced. everything that came out from Prem’s mouth felt odd and so unlike him? that’s probably a me problem for being used to associating only broody men (not Prem) to ace dirty talking. So when Prem does it, it just felt weird and out of character for me 😂 instead of feeling hot, i’m laughing my ass off. so since then, i just felt disconnected with the characters and their romance. though i admit i related so much to Rina and Prem’s values and especially the south asian family dynamic but that’s just about it. the grand gesture for the ending was SO not my thing so yea…but hey, this was actually a fun romcom but just not for me.

THIS BOOK IS IT!!! I loved it so much. Super super likable characters, fun plot, and most of all inclusivity!!! We love to see! A must read and will definitely be reading all her books!

release date : March 15th

rating - 4.5⭐

🩺 I devoured this book just like I knew I would! Prem & Kareena are definitely my favorite book couple of the month. The chemistry they had was everything. This is also probably the best cartoon covered book with spice that I enjoyed. It was detailed & hawt. The only ick being when Prem would call her honey while inside her. I’m giving it a 4.5 because at some point the back & forth between them was too much. It made me anxious because I couldn’t tell when they were finally going to stop playing & get together. I can’t wait to see what else Nisha has in store!

🩺This is my honest opinion🩺

Dr. Dil is a spicy one! (Seriously, this is not for the sorts who prefer closed door romance.)

But anyway, Dr. Dil is hot and I would 100% read a thousand romances about him. He wants to do right by his community, stands up for his lady, has abs for days, and yeah, whew ::fans self::.

The Aunties are a riot as well, and the descriptions of food and familial relationships is such a joy to read.

I think this sets up a series, which will feature Kareena and Prem's friends, and I am here for it.

Thank you to Netgalley, Avon, and the author for the eARC in exchange for my review.

Dating Dr. Dil was a fun read. It made me hungry on top of laughing, smiling, and swooning. I enjoyed that’s it was dual pov. The book kept me engaged the whole way through. I got a fun, tickle in my tummy when I thought about reading more. I’m patiently waiting for the next book.


I voluntarily read an early copy.

I honestly think this book will be one of the top rom-coms of the year. Fantastic chemistry, great characters, and top quality steam! This is an enemies to lovers and done very well. I need good banter in this dynamic and this was present throughout. I also really liked the side characters and look forward to the other books in this series. Heads up, the main character’s family and attitude toward her through much of the book will enrage you. I am still not completely convinced with how that storyline came together. Outside of that, my one critique is the central argument went back and forth went one or two arguments too long. A minor thing that doesn’t take away from a great story overall. Highly recommend!

Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma is an impeccable, amazing, awesome adult romcom released on March 15. Dating Dr. Dil is a South Asian remix of Taming of the Shrew that follows Kareena Mann, a love-obsessed girl, and Dr. Prem Verma, a love-phobic TV doctor, who gets into a viral argument about love on the set of Prem’s TV show, The Dr. Dil Show. The more time they spend with one another, the harder it gets to hate each other. This book had me experiencing every emotion ever and I LOVED it!! It's hilarious, emotional, steamy, and so much fun. There is so much hilarious banter, amazing sexual tension, passionate romance, loveable characters, and more!

The relationship between the characters especially the BANTER! Nisha wrote the relationship between characters perfectly, it flowed and fit together PERFECTLY. But the relationship was *chef kiss* From pani puri eating competitions, to murder mystery scavenger hunts at the Met, to “kidnapping” Kareena and whisking her away to his home to spend the night with her, this man was DOWN BAD and I was here for every second of it. The dual POV really added to the story. Both Kareena and Prem are amazing characters with unique personalities and differing opinions about love, so seeing the world from their perspective really allowed me to understand where they were coming from.

I loved the cultural aspects and how perfectly it all came together in this contemporary setting. The way the Indian culture didn't seem forced but flowed perfectly and came together as a masterpiece! My final word is to go PREORDER this book ASAP because it is a MASTERPIECE!!!!

There were some genuinely funny moments in this book, but the romance was just laden down by SO MUCH backstory (warning for spoilers of the first third of the book): Kareena's father wants to sell her late mother's house, and Kareena wants to buy it. But she can only get the money that her father has set aside for her if she gets engaged. And also her father and grandmother are worried that her younger sister's fiance's family will judge her if the older sister isn't engaged by the time the younger one gets married (which...I guess this is the Taming of the Shrew reference, but it doesn't seem as though the younger sister's engagement is actually in question?). Enter Dr. Dil (a word play on 'heart' but also I think Dr. Phil?) who doesn't believe in love, but tells Kareena that he believes in "something more than love" when he meets her in a bar, before ditching her mid-makeout to take an SOS call? But then the next day Kareena's sister (who is an influencer-slash-math professor??) is on Dr. Dil's show (where he tries to 'gotcha' her about how it is somehow bad for her to be in love with her fiance?), Kareena yells at him for pretending he cared about love (?? did he?) and it accidentally gets streamed on YouTube, and then Dr. DIl loses face in the local desi community, so is going to lose financial backing for his South Asian-oriented medical clinic (the necessity for this is the only interesting part of the book tbh) and so now he has to date Kareena because no other desi woman will date him but also HIS mom wants to pay him to get married???

It was just so much. Also, Kareena introduces herself to him as "Rina" in the bar and then she spends the whole rest of the book getting mad if he calls her that. Which! One thing to not like a nickname, another to not like the name that you USED TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF. All this made it so hard to connect with the characters on any level.

I love any Shakespearean retelling so I had an incredibly high hopes for this book but I loved it I thought the chemistry was electric between the characters and I really found myself rooting for them!

Electric! Dating Dr. Dil gripped me from the very first chapter. The chemistry between Prem and Kareena was so palpable on every page. I absolutely adored being immersed in the South Asian culture that was represented throughout this story. This story had heart, humor, spice and my favorite enemies to lovers trope! Can’t wait to read more from Nisha Sharma!

DNF @ 30% - I just really wanted to get into this one. I heard absolutely amazing reviews about it, and I adore a BIPOC main character and author!! however, the storyline could not keep my interest going. I just was so bored, and the characters felt almost 2D to me.

Fated Mates teased this book like, a year ago, and I've been dying for it ever since -- a Shakespeare reimagining with a prickly heroine who still wants love and a cardiologist whose stage name means heart? Come on give it to me. And the wait certainly doesn't disappoint. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Kareena and Prem kind of bump up against each other until they realize what they thought were crashes are actually one supporting the other, and it's pretty delightful to watch them both go, "oh no, feelings? For this ding dong?" Added in with some threads about expectations and being the children of immigrants, it pairs the romantic with the thoughtful really well.

It's not a perfect read: Kareena is kind of a Mary Sue and her family fuuuuuuuuucking sucks, I would have loved for them to receive much more comeuppance. Some pieces of Prem's background definitely could have stood to have been introduced much sooner. But it was a fun book from start to finish, and I can't wait for more installments. Mrs. W.S. Gupta has got to be someone great à la Lady Whistledown, right?

Man who doesn’t believe in love meets woman who won’t settle for anything less than love. Add in some meddling Aunties and fake dating and you’ve got Dating Dr. Dil 😍

Thank you @avonbooks and @netgalley for my ARC

**3.5 Stars**

I liked this book, overall, but didn't love it as much as I thought I would. It's well written, and I can absolutely see many people loving this book, I just didn't. I didn't feel as connected to the characters as I would've liked to. I felt like I understood the main facts of the characters (i.e, Kareena is a lawyer who wants love and to keep her Mother's house, Prem is a doctor who doesn't believe in love and wants a community center) but I feel like we didn't really get a glimpse of their true essence until the end of the story, and then it ended suddenly, so it just felt disconnected.

As a white woman, I can't speak to the experience of immigrants and their first-generation children that the book concerns, but I did find it enlightening. I enjoyed the culture that the novel offered, through food, clothing, familial relationships, romantic relationships, events, everything. I think this is a major part that sets this novel apart from others, and I really did enjoy those aspects, and learned a lot that I had not previously known.

The pacing felt a bit off....first Kareena and Prem are for each other, then they're against each other (because she's convinced herself he lied to her about love....which he did not....and then threw a tantrum on television)...then Prem is all for Kareena who is adamantly against him, and then they'll finally come together as a romance novel should....but....this doesn't happen until the very end. It just felt like the book started slow and towards the end, so much happens in practically no time and suddenly the book is over. I enjoyed the short interstitials the novel had to break up the chapters and provide further incite to the importance of marriage within their culture, and I liked the text messages/group chats at the beginning of random chapters (though there does need to be a definitive separation of different conversations- this may just be undefined because it was a digital ARC though, and not the final copy), but the ending felt rushed, and conclusions were made at a pace that felt a bit too fast to be realistic. But then again, it is a romance novel, so maybe realistic isn't what the audience is looking for.

Finally, I will say the book is overall a fine read, some will love it, and some might not, but I do think it is a valid work that the world needs more of.

This is such an incredibly fun story! It's absolutely scorching and laugh out loud funny. I was skeptical about an updated Taming of the Shrew but I was proven so wrong!

It's so good and again, seriously, SO HOT.

OMG!!!! I am obsessed. Kareena was such a strong, independent badass. I love having a strong-willed, unwilting heroine. And Prem was *mwah mwah mwah* Their chemistry was immediate and I couldn't not root for them. This was the perfect rom-com read. It was funny, moving, heartfelt, and damn right sexy. I also loved that Kareena was struggling with the pressures of family and culture. It something I relate to a lot. What I need is a movie!! ASAP

This book was a hoot! Gave me Friends "Joey playing Dr. Drake Demoray" vibes as well as Alexis Daria's YOU HAD ME AT HOLA. Fun characters, great banter. A+ read

Overall: 5/5
Spice level: 4/5
Tropes: enemies to lovers

He wanted something more traditional and transactional while she was looking for her love match.

I absolutely loveloveloved Dating Dr. Dil! It was my first read by this author, and I was hooked from beginning to end. It was a perfect enemies to lovers story with lots of tension along the way.

Something else I enjoyed, with it being a diverse read, was learning more about the culture surrounding the characters and their community, including struggles of being a single South Asian woman when traditionally your worth is tied to marriage. Of course there's more nuances to it but Kareena is the older sister and her family is more worried about her finding a partner than they are about the fact that she basically landed her dream job. The aunties get involved to help her find a match because she needs money to buy the family home from her father. Which he won't give her until she's engaged.

I really felt the chemistry between Prem and Kareena. I always love when a hero us oblivious to his feelings and then all of a sudden it hits him that he's so gone for the woman that he can't think straight or stay away. The problem is Prem doesn't believe in love but he does agree they have physical chemistry and other compatibilities.

Without giving too much more away, I loved the flow and the pacing, as well as the grand gesture to made to solve the conflict. I also appreciated how Sharma flashed back to the meet cute conversation in scenes where Prem shows how much he connected with Kareena and really listened to everything she said. It's made obvious his love languages are acts of service and giving gifts.

Another factor I was hooked in was the friendship circles and I'm intrigued to see if the friendships blossom into something more in future books!

And it gave me the most amazing book hangover!

Highly recommended. This arc was available through NetGalley and Avon Books.

Kareena wants a happily ever after someday but is happy with her job, her friends, and working on the family house and her car. But when her younger sister gets engaged her father puts the pressure on Kareena to get engaged before her sister's engagement party and to sweeten the deal he will give her the house. Dr. Prem Verma does not believe in true love but he is also being pressured by his family to get married, funding to his dream clinic is on the line. When Kareena and Prem meet sparks fly, in fact their 2nd encounter goes viral. But will they be willing to figure out what the sparks mean? What are they willing to do to achieve their dreams?

I absolutely loved this! It was the perfect romance, and the pacing was perfect! I'm a big fan of Nisha sharma's work. I think she writes great romance with south-asian representation.