{"id":2767,"date":"2018-11-13T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:31:41","slug":"review-from-twinkle-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"review; from twinkle, with love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-925 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/review.jpg\" alt=\"review\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/review.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/review-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/from-twinkle-with-love.jpg\" alt=\"from twinkle with love\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/from-twinkle-with-love.jpg 520w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/from-twinkle-with-love-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>From Twinkle, With Love<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nby Sandhya Menon<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. So when fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle is all over it. The chance to publicly showcase her voice as a director? Dream come true. The fact that it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy &#8211; a.k.a. Sahil\u2019s twin brother? Dream come true x 2.<\/p>\n<p>When mystery man \u201cN\u201d begins emailing her, Twinkle is sure it\u2019s Neil, finally ready to begin their happily-ever-after. The only\u00a0<i>slightly\u00a0<\/i>inconvenient problem is that, in the course of movie-making, she\u2019s fallen madly in love with the irresistibly adorkable Sahil.<\/p>\n<p>Twinkle soon realizes that resistance is futile: The romance she\u2019s got is not the one she\u2019s scripted. But will it be enough?<\/p>\n<p>Told through the letters Twinkle writes to her favorite female filmmakers,\u00a0<i>From Twinkle, with Love\u00a0<\/i>navigates big truths about friendship, family, and the unexpected places love can find you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Review:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a huge contemporary person. I have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy them, honestly, but this is the second time Sandhya\u2019s writing has sucked me in immediately. Her writing is so visual that I can see the scenes playing out in my head like the cutesy rom-com it should be made into.<\/p>\n<p>Her characters &#8211; oh they are likeable and flawed, and the chemistry between the leads is electric, and the chemistry between the friendships is so believable, and they are so vulnerable and yet so strong &#8211; they are crafted so well that I want to know which entity she made a deal with so I can make my own.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I\u2019m so excited that we already know she\u2019s got another YA contemporary coming out, and also now she\u2019s working on an Adult contemporary, because I need all the things from Sandhya Menon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. So when fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle is all over it. The chance to publicly showcase her voice as a director? Dream come true. The fact that it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy &#8211; a.k.a. Sahil\u2019s twin brother? Dream come true x 2. When mystery man \u201cN\u201d begins emailing her, Twinkle is sure it\u2019s Neil, finally ready to begin their happily-ever-after. The only\u00a0slightly\u00a0inconvenient problem is that, in the course of movie-making, she\u2019s fallen madly in love with the irresistibly adorkable Sahil. Twinkle soon realizes that resistance is futile: The romance she\u2019s got is not the one she\u2019s scripted. But will it be enough? Told through the letters Twinkle writes to her favorite female filmmakers,\u00a0From Twinkle, with Love\u00a0navigates big truths about friendship, family, and the unexpected places love can find you. Review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[482,6,286],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-from-twinkle-with-love","tag-reviews","tag-sandhya-menon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}