Title: You Begin Where I End

Author: Sarang Jairaj

Pages: 135

Genre: Fiction

The cover is quirky and beautiful. It shows different aspects of the protagonist’s life. In the whole Nafisa (the protagonist) is shown as an overweight girl and uses “panda” to describe herself but the girl on the cover isn’t shown like that. While reading this book, the cover turns disappointing and not accurate for the plot.

The book starts with Nafisa having a terrible breakup which is hard for her to deal with. She ends up with jealousy and starts using a dating app which ” rhymes with hinder”. The book is filled with texts like “rhymes with” which becomes quite irritating. Through the dating app, she meets Amar which resulted in love and lust. She then meets Kiaan through Quora and they become penpals. Then sudden death of her mother leads her into extreme sadness for her. After this, the plot becomes interesting when her mother’s diary entries are introduced and one is able to explore the love story of her mother. Through each chapter, Nafisa is trying to heal herself while Kiaan unknowingly helps her in this, which results in Nafisa getting attracted towards him. The writing style could have been better as the author is trying to convey something but if the writing style would have been enriched it could leave an impact on the reader. The latter part catches the attention when different circumstances are introduced. It describes different problems her mother had to deal with.

Overall, it was a disappointing read for me.

Thanks @thatinsonomiac.reader and @powerpuffwords for the review copy!

2/5

 

 

 

Title: Scattered Constellation
Author: Ankita Singh
Genre: Poetry
Pages:80

“Your stories enchant me,
Your poetry pulls me under your spell,
Never to rise again”
The book is a collection of 50 poems. It discusses love, heartbreak, friendship, family. It displayed emotions of the author beautifully. It is divided into three parts-
Springing Love
Scattered Heart
Clustered Hope
I loved how it portrayed different aspects of everything. The poems can tell how the author felt at a certain moment and the reader could relate to her thoughts. The poems are expressive. Some of my favorite poems were-“Hey Princess”, “Sisters for a Reason”,” Is This Love?” and ” Sisters”. Overall, it is a great and short read.

4/5

The cover is designed well. Looks very good. Title is appropriate. Though a debut book, the concept has been explained well.

The book is a simple love story of Two doctors who meet during their workplace & eventually fall in love. However, circumstances forces them apart. The girl gets married with someone else, life goes well until life has planned unexpected things for her & unfortunate events takes place when the old lover reappears & the lost love rekindles.

What happens next? To knowTo know, read the book.

The writing style of the author is good. The way the medical terms has been kept simple and also proper explanation provided wherever necessary makes it an easy job for the reader. Overall the books is a good one time read and a quick read since it is very small.

Language is simple. Narration is okay

3/5

Title: Key To Soul

Author: Probal Majumdar

Genre: Romance

A love story which involves love, revenge, friendship, parenthood, separation, betrayal, and mostly heartbreak.

A good book for a debutant.

I liked the smooth, steady pace of the story. Language seems to be good, simple enough to understand.

Character building & overall description was good.

Sequential analysis with poetic touch, synchronisation is effectively done.

Using epistles throughout as the theme with plot involving flashbacks made it an exciting read.

Lacks rapid movement, seems seems monotonous & dragging at many occasions. Language & writing style could be better. Same goes for the narration as well.

3/5

Title: When The Broken Hearts Meet
Author: Arushi Vats
Genre: Romance
Pages:179

The book revolves around two main characters- Avanti and Suhaas. As the title suggests the story tells about the characters who are haunted by their glimpses of pasts. The story discusses how they get to know each other, how they met, how they fell in love. It had many twists and turns but was a little dramatized. The hostel life and little glimpses from Avanti’s diary were displayed well. I felt that the characters could have been better and introduced well. Avanti, was at most of the time scared and weak, often trying to avoid situations rather than dealing with them which resulted in unfotunate events in the future. The friendship wasn’t displayed well. Poorvi, who was once “best friend” of Avanti ended up disturbing her. At some points, the book overdramatized some situations. “Because right now I was in the arms of a man with whom I felt safe and protected” This line is spoken by Avanti when they met for the second time.
“Ignore her, she’s like this” Suhaas is addressing his sister in this line and WHO SAYS ABOUT THEIR SISTER LIKE THAT?

Overall, the book was a little disappointing for me

2/5