dating dr. dil by nisha sharma

published: March 15, 2022
source: purchased
rating:★★★✩✩

from goodreads: 
Dating Dr. Dil features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are destined to be together. 

Kareena Mann dreams of having a love story like her parents, but she prefers restoring her classic car to swiping right on dating apps. When her father announces he’s selling her mother’s home, Kareena makes a deal with him: he’ll gift her the house if she can get engaged in four months. Her search for her soulmate becomes impossible when her argument with Dr. Prem Verma, host of The Dr. Dil Show, goes viral. Now the only man in her life is the one she doesn’t want.

Dr. Prem Verma is dedicated to building a local community health center, but he needs to get donors with deep pockets. The Dr. Dil Show was doing just that, until his argument with Kareena went viral, and he’s left short changed. That’s when Kareena’s meddling aunties presented him with a solution: convince Kareena he’s her soulmate and they’ll fund his clinic.  
Even though they have conflicting views on love-matches and arranged-matches, the more time Prem spends with Kareena, the more he begins to believe she’s the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. But for Prem and Kareena to find their happily ever after, they must admit that hate has turned into fate. 

my review:

dating dr dil was a cute story but not the best. i didn’t like the third person point of view but i guess it worked. i got kind of confused on which part was about who, it only made sense when it had the “she said” or “he said”. i think it would have been better if it was from their own point of view instead of it being like someone else “looking in” and telling a story about someone else. 

i really liked kareena, she was a badass intelligent independent woman. she knew what she wanted and went after it. she didn’t take shit from anyone and stood up for herself. her soft spot for her crappy family really irritated me because she deserved so much better. prem was interesting. he was your typical guy nothing that i really swooned over but i like that he basically fell for her first and that makes the story a lot more interesting. kareena’s family was super annoying especially dadi and bindu. super over bearing and blamed kareena for everything. even stuff that was bridezillas fault. 

dating dr. dil was cute, had some good parts but i definitely think it had potential to be better. the family made the story super mundane. some parts were also very very cringe and i couldn’t get over it 2.5, maybe 3 stars for good measure. 

favorite quotes:

“was it normal to want to cancel and go home to read?”

“silence is not a good option.”

“Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy and all that jazz.” 

“It’s better to take a chance on a match once in your life than never experience partnership at all.”