Sandhya Menon, you have done it again! I thought there couldn’t be another great Desi-American teenager overly problematic life/love story after When Dimple Met Rishi, but of course, you proved me wrong. This book is all that and more…It’s basically 327 pages of me laughing-crying-screaming in the best way possible!
From Twinkle, With Love is Sandhya Menon’s sophomore novel, a young-adult contemporary ystory about an Indian-American teen filmmaker, Twinkle Mehra, who tells her story through letters to her favorite female directors.
Menon did a great job portraying Twinkle – a teenager, who is smart, but shy; is trying to free herself from her image as a wallflower; makes impulsive, foolish mistakes; has a passion for cinematography, and wants to build a career in it. but like most teenagers, she is also figuring out and doing her best to handle high school, boys (and trust me there’s more than one), Friendships, oh, and of course parents…
When Twinkle gets the opportunity to direct a movie for the film festival in school, she knows this is her chance to show the world what women are capable of doing, voicing her strong belief in women empowerment. Everything’s going perfectly – new friends, first crush first love, getting to do what she loves the most – directing. But life’s not a movie, and she realizes there’s more to it than just happily-ever-afters!
There are so many important, vital messages nestled into this wonderfully sweet book and they’re all handled extremely well, with writing that is seamless, characters that are charming and small plot twists which continuously pull the reader in.