Author: Shikha Kumari

‘Message In A Bottle’ is another intriguing and heartwarming novel by bestselling author Nicholas Sparks. It is a story of two people, Theresa and Garret whose lives changed due to the message in a bottle. They would never had met if it is not for the message. For them, it was not a coincidence but a fated message.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

By Nicholas Sparks

352 pages, Grand Central Publication

‘Message In A Bottle’ is another intriguing and heartwarming novel by bestselling author Nicholas Sparks. It is a story of two people, Theresa and Garret whose lives changed due to the message in a bottle. They would never had met if it is not for the message. For them, it was not a coincidence but a fated message.

At the beginning, the author tells the story of Theresa, a thirty-six year old divorcee and a single mom to her twelve-year old son, Kevin. She works as a columnist for a magazine called Boston Times. She lives a monotonous and lonely life. Her life turned upside down when she found a letter in a bottle on her beach stroll. She searched for the person to whom the letter was addressed. She finally gets a lead, she meets Garret on her journey. Garret is a stereotypical Southern sailor who is mourning for his dead wife for three years. His only connection with her are the letters to the sea. Theresa finds an instant connection with him. And eventually, they fell in love with other. But you know, what they say “Love is not easy.” So, read the novel to find out the story of Garret and Catherine and also to find out whether it is happy ending for Garret and Theresa or not?

These are few of my favorite quotes from the novel;

“It is at moments like these that I know what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.” 

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.” 

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.” 

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.” 

 “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” 

“I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.” 

 “As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.” 

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.” 

This is a perfect novel for die-hard romantics. Nicholas Sparks definitely didn’t disappoint his fans after his extraordinary first novel, The Notebook. The story gets better and better after each page. This story is a mix of suspense and emotional intensity. It has a very intriguing plot.  Like always, the author keeps you hanging by a thread with his amazing art of storytelling. It is a tale of unbreakable and everlasting love. I found myself enraptured in this tale of love lost, desire and enormous strength of love. If you are into romantic fiction, look no further because this is the perfect book for you.

THE BEST LAID PLANS
By Sidney Sheldon
372 pages, William Marrow and Company

Like every Sidney Sheldon’s novel, ‘Best Laid Plans’ is very different from cliché and easily forgotten fiction. It is a tale of two people, Oliver and Leslie, who are to be wed but fate has some other things planned for them. It is story of politics, money and deception.

Oliver Russell is destined to reach the zenith of power, and to become the President of United States. On his way to success, he deceits his beautiful and successful fiancé, Leslie. Heartbroken and angry, Leslie marries an old media tycoon to gain money and power. When Leslie Stewart looks back on her fortieth birthday, after amassing Media Empire of her own, she finds herself unsatisfied. She wants revenge from her cheating ex-fiancé, Oliver Russell. She strikes when Oliver reaches the White House. She does everything in her power to tarnish his image. Oliver is an idealistic but lecherous president. He is hiding something but will Leslie be able to expose him? What happens when his secrets are out of the bag? Is he the one who is behind the death of rape and murder of 16-year old, Chloe Houston?
The dirty politics, jilted woman’s revenge, and a very mysterious plot makes the novel a perfect movie material. Sheldon has weaved the story with strong main characters. It has colorful and interesting supporting characters. The encounter between the Bosnian boy and the journalist who took him under her care is touching yet unoriginal. This novel gives an insight of the politician’s life. It shows that like every commoner, they also have same amount of desire, need and fear. War stories and election campaigns makes the plot intricate. These are some of my favorite lines from the novel:
Leslie Stewart:
“Three men came across a female genie who promised to grant each one their wish. The first man said, “I wish I were twenty-five percent smarter”. The genie blinked, and the man said, “Hey, I feel smarter already”. The second man said, “I wish I were fifty percent smarter”. The genie blinked and the man exclaimed, “That’s wonderful! I think I know things now that I didn’t know before”. The third man said, “I’d like to be one hundred percent smarter”.
So the genie blinked and the man turned into a woman. “

Oliver Russell:
“The people who are running the country have turned it into an old boy’s club. They care more about themselves than they do about the people. It’s not right and I’m going to try and correct that.”

Todd Davis:
“Money doesn’t care who owns it. A bum can win it in a lottery, a dunce can inherit it, or someone can get it by holding up a bank. But power that’s something different. To have power is to own the world.”

Dana Evanston:
“If something can stop you, you might as well let it go.”
The novel is a page-turner. You’ll never get bored while reading it. ‘Best Laid Plans’ tells us that our passions if not bridled can either make or break us, hence we need to control ourselves. This novel is interesting and worth reading.

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

By Sidney Sheldon

384 pages, William Marrow and Company

Nothing Lasts Forever is a quasi-medical romance novel by mega-author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story of three young doctors, their dreams, their hopes, and their unexpected desires. It lays bare the fears and ambition of lovers and betrayers, killers and healers.

The story revolves around the lives of three doctors, Dr. Paige Taylor, Dr. Kat Hunter and Dr. Betty Lou Taft (Honey) of a major hospital. As the novel begins, Dr. Paige Taylor is on murder trial, she is accused for the mercy killing of a patient who have transferred one million dollars in her account. Her situation is pretty bad as one after another every witness is against her. A witness’s statement that an eminent surgeon told that Dr. Paige Taylor is incompetent, takes Paige five years back. She meets Kat and Honey at Embarcadero County Hospital. Since they were the only female residents at the hospital, they bonded pretty well and started sharing an apartment. Paige Taylor, the dedicated one was still holding the light for her long lost love. Kat Hunter, an African American who has lofty ambitions has sworn off men after her abusive stepdad got her pregnant. Honey Taft, the dull, plain southern belle in a family of brilliant overachievers compensated her lacking by learning diligent techniques from Kama Sutra. Her techniques always gets her professional niche but everything becomes mess when she seduces a doctor and his wife commits suicide, Honey then comes to San Francisco to start anew. These three were caught in the middle of male dominant medical world where they are trying to prove their worth. As the story proceeds, heart-broken Paige falls in love with an architect, Jason. Tough Kat Hunter falls for a colleague, Mallory who is only with her for a bet. Honey finds true love in an Irish man. Their lives turns upside down when Kat gets killed mysteriously, Honey gets almost exposed for misdiagnosing, and Paige gets accused for mercy killing of a patient.

The plot of the story is mysterious. The story is set in California in the era of 1980s to 1999. Sheldon has explained the rigors of the medical intern’s lives in a very detailed glory: grueling hours, sleep deprivation, sexual harassment, petty professional backbiting, and incompetent doctors. Like his every other novel, every character in this novel has got a story of their own. All of them are connected by a thin thread. The tone of the story is suspenseful. Through this novel, Sheldon has shown that rosy dreams and harsh reality is separated by a fragile thread of destiny. These are some of my favorite quotes from the novel

“You have two choices. You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”

“You know, it’s not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.”

“There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER”
“Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. How could everything have gone so wrong…so wrong…so wrong…”
Aficionados of stereotypes and clichés in every page makes it an extraordinary read. Nothing Lasts Forever is definitely page turner will collaboration of interesting twists and turns. Read the novel, you will enjoy it.

This is another heart-touching novel from Nicholas Sparks. It tells the life story of Miles Ryans, a deputy sheriff, who has lost his wife in a tragic accident two years ago. Missy was his first love, and maybe will be his last. Even after her death he never stopped loving her. But he was not the only one who was affected by this turn of events, this had a great impact on their son Jonah. But Miles’s thirst for vengeance makes him blind. It might wreck his life.

A BEND IN THE ROAD

By Nicholas Sparks

341 pages, Grand Central Publishing

This is another heart-touching novel from Nicholas Sparks. It tells the life story of Miles Ryans, a deputy sheriff, who has lost his wife in a tragic accident two years ago. Missy was his first love, and maybe will be his last. Even after her death he never stopped loving her. But he was not the only one who was affected by this turn of events, this had a great impact on their son Jonah. But Miles’s thirst for vengeance makes him blind. It might wreck his life.

Their whole household was a mess after Missy died. Both Miles and Jonah were miserable. Miles found no purpose in living without Missy but he wanted to punish the person who was responsible for her death. He started researching her accident. In the meantime, Sarah Andrews has come to New Bern from Baltimore after a difficult divorce. She became the second grade teacher of Jonah. She got emotionally drained when she the pain Jonah’s eyes, it reminded her of her own hurt. What surprised her more was seeing the same pain in his father’s eyes. She has an urge to wipe away their pain. So, she decided to reach for them. After a very long time, they laughed.

She came in their life as a fresh gush of wind, and without realizing Miles fell I love with her. Jonah got a mother he ever wanted. Sarah whose politician husband had abandoned her due to her failed ovary got a chance at motherhood. Unknowingly, they became an inseparable trio. What they don’t know is that they are bound by a more formidable secret. What if the secret is out? Will they be able to surpass the inevitable? Will there will be a happy ending?

At the starting their love story goes very softly like marshmallow fluff but a lurking shadow of secrets was always there. Sparks has written this novel in third person’s point of view. This tale is sweet, uplifting, accessible, and predictable. What makes it more special is the author’s unique style of character-weaving. Even the small character who doesn’t have a role in central plot of the novel like Brenda’s (Sarah’s friend and Miles’s old friend) character has a huge impact on us. She is a sweet loving soul. Throughout the novel, you will find yourself overwhelmed by the emotions. Nicholas Sparks’s use of expression and plotting sure helps to make this novel, a good mystery. These are my favorite quote from the novel;

“Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear cut beginning, those moments when we can, looking back, say that everything has started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events, whose outcome we could never have foreseen. ”

“There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious
knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in
their entirety”

If you want to read a sweet love story with a pinch of suspense and secrets, you should  definitely read this novel.

It is an intriguing tale of sabotage and danger, greed and betrayal, and the decisions that can cost lives. Roffe and Sons is a family business, having greedy and desperate family members. 

BLOODLINE

By Sidney Sheldon

409 pages, Doubleday Books

It is an intriguing tale of sabotage and danger, greed and betrayal, and the decisions that can cost lives. Roffe and Sons is a family business, having greedy and desperate family members.

It is an international pharmaceutical firm whose head, Sam Roffe is one of the richest man in the world. At the beginning of the story, he dies in a tragic and a very suspicious accident. He was a very good businessman but the worst father to his only daughter, Elizabeth who lost her mother in early age. He was never around due to his business that made Elizabeth hate her family business more. She always worked really hard to gain her father’s love and approval, which she never got. Suddenly her father’s right hand and her teenage crush, Rhys Williams brings the news of Sam’s death to her. She also learns that her father has made her the sole successor of Roffe and Sons. She is a young, beautiful and intelligent woman who gets overwhelmed by the turns of events in her life. When she attends the board meeting which consists of mostly her family members, she comes to know the financial condition of the firm. The board member urge her to make the company public (which means they can sell their shares). Meanwhile, Sheldon tells the story of every board members and their spouses. He also reveals the dark past of Rhys Williams. However, Elizabeth who is unaware of the story of all these money hungry people finds the situation at the company fishy when she comes to know that he father wanted the shares to remain in family. Therefore, she decides to keep the company and also starts researching his father’s death. She keeps this to herself but that only endangers her life. Someone is trying to kill her, maybe that’s the same person who is behind her father’s death. Read the story to find out who is behind all these?

These are some of my favorite quotes from the novel;

“To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.” 

“Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he’s going to get hungry.” 

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?” 

“Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.” 

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings

“Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.” 

Sidney Sheldon is one of my favorite author. He never fails to amaze me. This mystery cum thriller novel hooks up the reader from the beginning and urges them to keep on turning the pages till the end. The way he shows the dark sides of each character creates an appropriate plot for the suspense. Everyone in the story have same goal, they want Roffe and Sons to go public, and they are ready to go to any extent to make this happen. Only Sidney Sheldon can make you like and yet despise a character at the same time. He weaves the story of each character in such a way that fills you with hatred for the things they did, yet you pity the circumstances which has forced them to do so. In his novel, you have “expect the unexpected”. His ending are polar opposite to the ending we expected.

Although some parts of the story seems irrelevant to storyline like Elizabeth’s homosexual fling with her boarding school teacher, still Sheldon has managed to make it a very intriguing story. If you are into suspense novels, you should definitely check this out.

“The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight” is the latest novel of Jennifer E. Smith. It is the tale of broken relationships, first love and second chances.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

By Jennifer E. Smith

311 pages, Little, Brown, and Company

“The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight” is the latest novel of Jennifer E. Smith. It is the tale of broken relationships, first love and second chances. Have you ever found an instant bonding with a person you just met? Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach when you met someone? Have you ever wished to stay in a place forever so that you can have quality time with someone? Ever heard that few minutes changed someone’s life, well these mere four minutes has changed Hadley’s life. It doesn’t matter how hard you have tried to find true love, finding love is elusive, it mostly depends on timing. She don’t know what would have happened if she was not four minutes late to the airport, but she knows for sure that she never would have met Oliver if she was not four minutes late. The guy with cute British accent and witty banter who makes her feel at ease, and makes her lose track of time. He has given her a new perspective and unknowingly gave her a push to mend her relationship with her father.

Story starts with Hadley who reaches airport four minutes late due to various reasons. She misses her flight for the first time. She actually never wanted to board that plane, in her mind she has imagined different reasons which would lead to the cancellation of this trip. But after missing the flight she feels bad. Her mother wants her to be in London, so she decides to take the next flight. She hates the crowd on the airport especially when she has to wait seven and half hour for the next flight. That’s when she meets Oliver. He gives her company on the airport. He is handsome, charming, and mysterious. Later, he ends up sitting beside her on the plane to London. They both have an instant bonding. While Oliver reveals very less info about his personal life, Hadley finds it easy to omit all her problems to a stranger whom she probably won’t see again. He also helps her to get over her claustrophobia on the plane. Hadley is seventeen. It has been a year since her parents divorced. While her father settled in UK, she lives with her mother in US. She used to love her father a lot but his choices has created a rift between them. The last time she met him was the day she learnt about the other woman in his life, that was a year ago. Now, she is going to attend his wedding because her mother thinks that after some years, Hadley will regret not being a part of father’s important day. She hates the evil stepmother already but when she meets her, she finds out that it is difficult to hate her. I don’t want to be the spoiler, so read the novel to find out the rest of Hadley’s story.

Hadley is basically the heroine of the story, Oliver just acts like a catalyst to her journey. The instant-connection between them is heart-meltingly sweet. Oliver’s bit of story only motivates Hadley to forgive her father and fills the gap between them. Despite the title, Hadley and Oliver never confesses their love to each other. The author shows the beginning of a budding relationship, but she never concludes it.

I had a lot of fun reading this book. I can’t keep smile off my face while reading their conversation on the airport and on the plane, it’s cliché but also very entertaining. Hadley is kind but at the same time very self-centered. In the story, Oliver helps her to get over her bratty attitude. Her stubbornness and Oliver’s quirkiness are the best things in the story. I liked the chaos in the story as it makes the book weirdly entertaining. It is a captivating love story which keeps the reader hooked till the end. Every page of the story made me to swoon and sigh at the same time.

However, Oliver’s character seems superfluous in the story. I’m sure the readers would have enjoyed the book more if Smith has given a bit more attention to Oliver’s story as well. Also, the hurt and sense of abandonment Hadley felt after her father left goes unaddressed in the story. The way she accepts both her father and her stepmother with open arms is too good to be real. After a year of resentment, forgiveness by a stubborn girl like Hadley within a day time is near to impossible. The author’s attempt to make it true in the novel is unbelievable. Also, I wish that author would have added romance as a part of the story not as just a throwaway.

Jennifer E. Smith has managed to fit a 24-hour turn of events into a whole novel very beautifully. She has shown great how fate plays an important role in the story. Almost all the characters of the story are relatable and incredibly likeable. The story has unpredictable twists and turns. A great setting and the sparkly dialogues make this novel irresistible. Smith’s has an interesting writing style. She has used typical third person narration in the novel which takes some time to get used to, also some flashbacks seems awkward because of the narration. The quotes used in the story, especially the ones from Charles Dickens’ book “Our Mutual Friend” are really impressive like “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death” and “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

If you are really looking for numbers and statistics like the title suggests, sorry to be the informant, you have reached the wrong place. But if you want cute, sweet, and interesting teen fiction, this is the right book for you. This tale is light and fluffy as well as touching and wonderful. I bet you will enjoy it a lot.

It is an awe-inspiring book with a sad yet sweet love story at its core. It is a tale of 21-year Ankita who goes through a lot in her life. A peculiar story of a perfect girl who ends up in a mental asylum, a girl whom destiny throws back but she bounces back.

Life Is What You Make It

By Preeti Shenoy

209 pages, Srishti Publisher

Life Is What You Make It is the second novel of the Indian bestselling author, Preeti Shenoy. It is an awe-inspiring book with a sad yet sweet love story at its core. It is a tale of 21-year Ankita who goes through a lot in her life. A peculiar story of a perfect girl who ends up in a mental asylum, a girl whom destiny throws back but she bounces back.

The novel tells the story of Ankita, a cheerful, sweet, smart, and ambitious girl. The plot of the story is in the 1980s, where the only source of entertainment was Doordarshan, where letters were in trends. Ankita has a very conservative parent. That’s why she has to sneak out to talk to her boyfriend, Vaibhav. They used to exchange letters. At the beginning, the protagonist, Ankita is waiting outside a doctor’s office. The real story begins from her college days, where she was elected as ‘secretary’. Everything goes smoothly until she meets Abhi in an inter-collegiate event. Abhi falls for her and takes it upon himself to woo her. They get pretty close but everything falls apart when Ankita gets admission in one of the premiere college in Mumbai. Abhi doesn’t wants to be apart from her so he suggests her to choose him over her dream college. She refuses it singlehandedly, also she expresses that she is doubtful that they will be touch.

The very next day, she finds out that Abhi has committed suicide. When she goes to his house, his grandfather says to her “Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.”  His words cuts through her heart but she puts a brave upfront and leaves for her college to study MBA. To distract herself, she immerses herself fully in her studies. She aces in her college. Also she gets close to one of her college friend, Joseph.

After coming to Mumbai, she always seeks perfection but she begins to lose it when one day, her parent find Vaibhav’s letter in her room and burns. It somehow acts as trigger, her past starts to haunt her. She stops going to college. She blames herself for everything Abhi’s death, for cheating Vaibhav and Joseph. She finally tells the truth to both of them. She attempts to kill herself multiple times. She suffers from critical stage of bipolar disorder. At last, she ends up in a mental hospital.

So, what happens there? What happens when your life suddenly starts going downhill? What happens when you are degraded from perfect to nothing by the destiny? Read this novel to find out.

Preeti Shenoy never cease to amaze me. After her first national bestselling novel, “34 Bubblegum and candies”, her second novel “Life Is What You Make It” definitely doesn’t disappoint. She has mesmerizing talent as a story teller. Through this tale, she has made an attempt to clear the taboo about mentally ill people. She has shown the dilemma of mentally ill people, she says, “If I pretended to be “normal” and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell”. It makes you to see them in different light. She makes you feel connected to the characters. The way she explained every mental disease in the story, shows her dedication and the effort she has put to do research for the book. However, it would have done more good to the book if the author have saved the enormous details of Ankita’s mental condition as it makes the novel a bit boring. Although, she has managed to pull our heartstrings with the following lines: “This is frightening, this world without words, this world of darkness and void. I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to make it stop…… To be trapped like this in one’s own body is a fate worse than death. With death, at least there is an end. Here, the suffering is endless.”

What I didn’t like was the bond between Vaibhav and Ankita, which is shown very strong as well as the very fragile at the same time. Ankita would never have cheated on him with Abhi if they were truly in love. Also, the reaction of Ankita’s parent after finding Vaibhav’s letter seems superficial. Come to think of it, their daughter is perfect in every aspect of her life, why a parent will react that extremely over a letter which is written way long back. Also, some of the characters of the book are shallow. The plot of the novel is very conflicting as it swings between past and present, it really confuses the readers.

The best thing about the book is that is contains both prologue and epilogue. While the prologue increases the curiosity of the reader, epilogue shows the significance of the title. Preeti Shenoy has shown a different aspect of life, she says, “if you have not made somebody’s day happier, if you’ve not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!”  It tells that even if your life is a mess, you can still do something to make it better. Ankita is reborn in the story like the birth of Phoenix. She finds out that life is worth living from her journey. My favorite quotes from the story is, “The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.”

It is perfect story for middle-age people who want to relive their college days, riding the motorcycle with your boyfriend, exchanging letters, and sneaking out to talk to each other. It is an impressive novel which has every emotions, love, guilt, and sorrow at its peak. Give it a try, it is worth one-time read.

It is the story of the promise made between two persons, Shamhavi and Arjun. The promise to be with each other despite the circumstances, the promise to love forever. 

The Promise

By Nikita Singh

237 pages, Grapevine India

The Promise is the fourth fiction book of the national bestselling author, Nikita Singh. It is the story of the promise made between two persons, Shamhavi and Arjun. The promise to be with each other despite the circumstances, the promise to love forever.

In the novel, Shambhavi is a happy go lucky girl. Whenever she enters a room, it brightens up with her cheerfulness but behind this all there is a girl who is going through a lot. No one sees the pain in her eyes. She is an interior designer by profession. She works a lot as she needs money for her father’s medication who has brain tumor.

Arjun Datta is the infamous owner of the Datts Enterprises, a well-established furniture company. He is a very private person, very few people have met him. He is charismatic, elusive and stinking rich. Money is the only thing he loves and hates at the same time. He is trying to run away from his past. His dark, brooding, and secretive looks attracts people like magnets, at the same time, his icy demeanor often scares the hell out of people.

During one of her projects, Shambhavi meets Arjun. Arjun is a loner, he doesn’t believe in love. Till now, he has lost everyone he has loved including his family. His heart is broken, he has decided never to love again. His past still haunts him, he refuses to move on but still whenever he sees Shambhavi he finds emptiness in his life. Eventually, he falls for her. They are so in love and promises are made but everything falls apart when he finds out that Shambhavi is pregnant. He feels cheated as he thinks that history is repeating itself and leaves her.

Are they not meant to be toghether? Are these promises also made to be broken? You have to read the story to find out.

It is an intriguing story. For the starting 50 pages, the book is a bit boring but in middle plots gets interesting. One-fourth of the book is similar to a Bollywood melodrama but Nikita Singh made a great effort to make the story a page turner. She kept the conversations to be crispy and neat. Her characters are so lively. She has the ability to keep readers hooked throughout the story. She has not added any mature content to the book keeping it appropriate for every age group. She has described all the emotions in a very beautiful way. She manages to bring out tear in my eyes at some point in the story. She doesn’t leave any stone unturned.

She didn’t keeps the readers blindsided with Shambhavi’s story. She also tells the story of Arjun, his past, his thoughts. But somehow, on the whole, the story seems to be only Shambhavi’s. I wish author could have written a bit more about Arjun’s life. However, this story is a sweet emotional romance with witty retorts, lots of ups and downs, and interesting plot.

If you are looking for a cliché, a typical emotional romance, you should give it a try. But if you are fan of thriller and literature, this novel is not meant for you. It will be a good read for amateur readers and teenagers.