Inadvertently I am the one who enjoys reading romance more than any genre for
that matter when it comes to reading. However, The Girl of My Dreams is a
thriller with love and obsession as a central theme.
The story
revolves around the protagonist’s Daman,
fortunately, recovers from the coma but wakes up to the horrible dream of the
accident every single morning. All he could remember is a blurry face, her
hypnotic stare, and her name.
Struggling
with all the dreams, Daman starts piecing together the story of himself and
Shreyasi into a blog that gains a lot of popularity. Eventually, he gets a
great publishing deal that he couldn’t deny.
Daman, an
aspiring writer is obsessive about his muse Shreyasi. He writes about her and
his readers love him. It’s about time he wrote a full-fledged book of his own
especially since he has left his job to pursue writing. He is happily committed
to Avni, a banker who is a charming young lady and loves his back equally. A
dream haunts Daman consistently; a dream in which he is sitting with Shreyasi
in a car. Every time, their car meets an accidents and Shreyasi dies. Anyhow,
he manages to push his book to a famous editor who brutally edits out the
character of Shreyasi. This is when Shreyasi surges up in Daman’s life. Is she
real? If yes, where has she been? What does she want from him now? The understandings
and misunderstandings, the 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.
Even though the narration is again easy to read and allows us to easily
go through the entire story, the seriousness or the individuality of the bigger
causes in the book gets lost.
Some suggestive points:
Although the
narration of the story is good but in my opinion, the explicit descriptions
went over the top. In his previous books, the author
has really emerged out as a better writer and I was quite happy with the
maturity he handled the characters and emotions. However, I was not convinced
by several actions of the characters in the book. At times, it felt that they
were manipulated to satisfy what author has in his mind. This brings me to
another major issue with the book. I simply could not connect with any
character. They are plain and monotonous characters who don’t have a life.
Final words:
Overall if
asked I would say this is not a fair job done by the author, the book has got extremely little to offer in that overstretched context. It has his
signature explicit descriptions of the intimate moments and a couple of courses in Hindi (which is also a trademark of
the author), which were both not
required. Overall I would say...this is not a good
job done by Author (Durjoy Datta) … I would give 2.5 stars to this book.
.jpg "BOOK REVIEW - “IT HAPPENS FOR A REASON” BY PREETI SHENOY")
0 comments: