Inadvertently I
am the one who enjoy reading romance more than any genre for that matter when
it comes to reading.
The story revolves around the
protagonist’s Nidhi, thirty-four, who has
quit her corporate job to follow her passion. She is engaged to Manoj, Mr
Perfect – except for one aspect.
Nidhi takes life in
different manner; she admires her step mother and amazing understanding in
their relation. Though, in general step mother are considered as a lady who can
never love her other children but this perception has been proven wrong by the
author. Infact, Nidhi’s mother Tara both are more as friends. The way Nidhi
respects her and her father’s love is the underscore of the story. A different
viewpoint to see that love could be seen.
Then there is
Aniket a 27 year old, techie, Mr Average. His only best
friend is Subbu, a nerd who breathes, thinks and lives code. Subbu always cheer him up when he goes through sturdy times due to
Trisha (His girlfriend). They used to term it as a bad technical error. He does all the things to make his friend
feel better. Aniket cannot believe his luck when he starts
dating. Trish – a stunning, sexy model, who is totally out of his league.Aniket and Trisha comes under materialistic love where Trisha wants
to change every bit in her boyfriend.
Quiet
similar was the case with Nidhi and her fiancé. Aniket and Nidhi meet on a train, a chance encounter and she agrees to
become his ‘relationship coach’. It’s
a decision that sets into motion a chain of events that will have a insightful collision
on the lives of all involved around them.
The understandings
and mis-understandings, clash of egos, another romance on the side suddenly
turn up to complicate matters whip things up and make it more interesting! I would like to dislocate my
share of earful on the story here without further sharing any more details, and
trying not to spoil the reader’s eagerness and allowing them to savor the
original narration or compelling expression by the writer himself by reading
the book itself.
Indeed the
climax was quite interesting with twists and turns as they unfold. For that you
need to read this book.
Now my Positive viewpoints:
The positives of
the story are the characters easily identifiable. The
story is well knit and the way has constructed it, is beyond appreciation.
The cover and title of the book is fascinating. The
cover page of the book takes you in to a stupor and a feeling of positivity
engulfs us. The title gives us an insight that it has something to do with
astrology that focuses on Planets. The Planets decide the destiny of our
characters and this title is simply awesome. The lucid free-flowing words and the identifiable
characters with swift. Characters strike a chord with the modern urban
metropolitan readers. The narrative is as easy as ever, the language
excellent, without being highbrow.
Some suggestive points:
Although the
narration of the story is wonderful but at some places the story becomes
stagnant. A little more editing would definitely increase its appeal.
Sometimes, descriptions of people and places are very exaggerated, which seemed
somewhat unnecessary. Finally, what strike me or made an impression on me is
the way the story tried to explore the fragility and vulnerability of human
relationship. That we are flawed being and with that comes perfectly imperfect
relationships, which we agree or not but somewhere have to acknowledge the
fact. No relationship is ‘happily ever after’. But then it’s our individual
choice to persevere or not.
Final words:
Overall if asked I would say this is a good
book, perfect accompaniment to anyone interesting in reading on weekend
pastime. Overall I would say...this is a good job done by Author (Preeti Shenoy) … I would give 4.5 stars to this book.
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