From Twinkle, With Love

OH WELL, Twinkle? :| Sahil, I am not a very happy Indian reader I guess.

REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! Say hi to Twinkle. She calls herself an invisible wallflower and her biggest dream is to make movies that would touch people. Oh, and there is a certain boy on the school swim team, Neil Roy, who happens to be Twinkle's crush. And then there is Sahil. A huge film fan and he has a crush on Twinkle since forever. Oh, and he is Neil's twin brother. Twinkle lives a quiet life with her parents and her grandmother and thinks that no one is taking note of her and that her parents do not love her. So she writes letters into her diary to famous female directors like Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow and tells them about her dreams and feelings. After her best friend Maddie spends more time with a new group of friends she made she feels more alone than ever and daydreams about being Neil's girlfriend. One day she meets Sahil in a cafe and starts talking to him. The next day Sahil heard how she talked to Maddie about the school play of Midsummer Night. While Maddie encourages Twinkle to ask for permission to do a movie out of it, Sahil offers to be the producer of this project. The book is written from the point of view of both of them - Twinkle and Sahid. So you learn fast that while Twinkle is caught up in the movie project and receiving e-mails from a secret admire called "N" of which she is hoping he turns out to be Neil you also learn that Sahid is madly in love with her since he was 11 and only thanks to his two best friends finds the courage to make the first step at the cafe to talk to her. Sandhya Menon does it again. She takes you on a journey into a wonderful story with fun and a lot of nerdiness combine with a clash of American and Indian culture. The story is perfect and I wish I could forget that I read it and read it again! I am absolutely in love with her books.

3,5