My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma| Published May 15th 2018 by Crown Books for Young Readers | 304 Pages | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
An entertaining and lighthearted YA romance. Winnie is in high school and part of the film club, she also has a blog about Bollywood films and is facing trouble in the romance department.
Overall, I enjoyed this novel. What worked for me is that I’m familiar with most of the Bollywood films and actors mentioned in the story (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Kabhie Khushie Kabhie Gham, etc). What didn’t work for me was the love triangle and a few parts were a bit predictable.
I recommend that before you read the novel you become familiarized with some of the most popular Bollywood films, particularly Kabhie Khushie Kabhie Gham which is mentioned several times throughout the story. Another film that is mentioned and that I enjoyed recently is QUEEN.
I highly enjoyed it and recommend it.
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“Winnie Mehta was never really convinced that Raj was her soul mate, but their love was written in the stars. Literally, a pandit predicted Winnie would find the love of her life before her eighteenth birthday, and Raj meets all the qualifications. Which is why Winnie is shocked when she returns from her summer at film camp to find her boyfriend of three years hooking up with Jenny Dickens. As a self-proclaimed Bollywood expert, Winnie knows this is not how her perfect ending is scripted.
Then there’s Dev, a fellow film geek and one of the few people Winnie can count on. Dev is smart and charming, and he challenges Winnie to look beyond her horoscope and find someone she’d pick for herself. But does falling for Dev mean giving up on her prophecy and her chance to live happily ever after? To find her perfect ending, Winnie will need a little bit of help from fate, family, and of course, a Bollywood movie star.
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
Loan from Miami-Dade’s Library Overdrive, audiobook