A very interesting
story, explaining relationships, discovering some new bold aspects of friends,
friendship and true love in today’s world while achieving dreams, own dreams...
The story is a heartening
tale of how past relationships, when broken without a proper closure, can come
back to haunt the present. Her strength, as always, is in portraying real,
believable characters and events that can happen in anyone’s life. The
characters in the book are as real as it gets. For example, when Aman engages
in a one-night stand, just to exorcise the ghosts of his past relationship with
Shruti, it is believable, because it is what most guys would do.
This is the story
of Aman Mathur a young, good-looking man, successful in his career and
after a brief stint in UK for 2 years; he’s all set to return to India. But an
accidental relapse into his old memories sends him tumbling back to his past,
to the wonderful 4 years of his life that he spent with Shruti, his heart throb.
Shruti is the girl with whom he spent some wonderful moments, yet he could not have
her. Without her, Aman had never envisaged his future.
But it was Shruti
who had walked out of his life, leaving him shattered and heart-broken and just
when he thought that he had moved on, the ghosts of his past return to haunt
him.
Shruti, now married to
Rishabh, is content and settled in her role of a married woman. But a day
doesn’t pass in her life without the memories of her perfect relationship with
Aman prowling her banal and mundane day-to-day life.
Anjali is an exuberant
and vivacious girl, working as a columnist in women’s magazine and she’s
charmed by Aman’s kind and intelligent demeanour. But she is also confused by
his conflicting attitude when he doesn’t return her messages after their few
wonderful dates. Aman on the other hand is guilty, because he enjoys Anjali’s
company but he is not sure if he’s ready to plunge into a relationship when his
heart still pines for ‘the one he cannot have.’
Will Aman finally
get back with Shruti or will he rest the ghosts of his past relationship and
move ahead by accepting Anjali’s love and warmth in his life. Read this
touching and heart-warming tale of love, relationships, pain, healing and
moving-on in life. Seems so real and of today’s world. I won’t say much about
those chapters as I don’t want to spoil it for the readers but I just loved the
way the book ended. It was a perfect climax for me. The climax was quite
interesting with twists and turns to unfold the same you need to read this
book.
Now my Positive
viewpoints:
The concept of the story
is really nice and absorbing. This is a good work done by the author for writing such an arresting
work of fiction. The author does not deviate much from the plot. The narration
is crisp and manages to hold onto the reader’s interest till the climax of the
story. Overall, the book is highly recommended by me to all those who craves
for romance mixed with fiction to pass their time on any given weekend. It will
make you smile, laugh and cry. But most of all, it will infuse that romantic
feeling that will make you fall in love with your loved ones all over again.
Some suggestive points:
Overall the book is good and very well
expressed. I find a little disappointing that as other books had the similar
kind of plot of past, failed relationships haunting the main protagonist’s
present life. I was hoping to read something different in her next novel.
I was wondering if she will discard her comfort zone and deliver another
amazing and bestselling novel.
Final words:
Overall if asked I would say...this is a touching and
impressive fast-read that manages to keep the readers engrossed from the start
to the last page of the book by Author (Preeti Shenoy) … I would give 3.5 stars to this book.
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