AFTER ALL THIS TIME Book Review

So, with that title if you are thinking you'd find a love story very near and dear to that of Severus Snape and Lily, say hello to disappointment. Although you can find a one paragraph reference to it. YAY!

After writing interesting page turner books like, The Promise, If its not forever...it's not love and Someone like you, Nikita Singh brings you a successful drag story of a confused soul suffering from HIV who doesn't decide till the very end of the book what to do about the disease or the rest of the time she has to live. Somehow the title absolutely fits in with the plot, After all this time...would you just decide what you have to do???

Thankfully the answers to all our, “what-happens-in-the-end” questions are answered in the end but trust me you don't need to go through the whole book for that!

Interesting fact, this book is also a love story! But no, don't you get back to the idea of Snape and Lily again! I told you its not them.

Remember that time the guy you friend-zoned creeped you out with his love for you so much so that you ran away to a different country? Well meet Shourya, the hero of the story who cannot get over any of the women he has ever been with and move on with his life. He literally creeps them out very much until all of them give up and come back to him. Now that he has all of them in his pocket he gets to choose and creepy that he is, chooses the first girl, Lavanya the protagonist, even though that woman is an annoyingly crying mess.

The problem with the book is that it is irritably draggy, nose-cringing cliche and bland for the most part of the story, though it is expected to be soul-crushingly emotional. 

After all this time could have made a beautiful short story of 2 pages unfortunately extended to two hundred pages.

I would give this book one star clearly just to show the level of disappointment. 

 

WORLD'S BEST BOYFRIEND Book Review

So after reading around 10 books by Durjoy Datta which give brilliant messages in themselves, 'World's Best Boyfriend' book turns out to be a huge disappointment. 

IN SHORT: The Boyfriend is anything but Best, I assure you that.

The story although has a lot of things, fails to be a page turner. The plot seems cliche, and at a point of time, turns out to be an unreasonable nonsense. Like the previous stories by Durjoy Datta, one can definitely not take inspiration or hope from this book as it fails to give any moral to the story. The writer in attempt to return with the dark humor he used to write in his initial books, goes overboard and spoils it.

More than any other thing, the writer for the first time failed miserably in dialogue delivery which did not bring the right emotions expected from the readers, or can we say the emotions at all. The love story is said to be revengeful in the synopsis but it looks more like immature tiff between high schoolers.

Other than that, the writer also could not do any proper justification to the characters as they seem unrealistic, mechanical and a little too cliche' to be real. The love story although seems to have a happy ending, in the larger picture, the pair don't seem to be fitting for each other. Also there are a lot of subplots in the story that goes unanswered.

I could not give any major spoilers to you in here because like other books of Durjoy Datta, this one doesn't have any major plot twists, like I said, a huge disappointment.

I would rate this book with 2 stars mainly for the witty one liners by Aranya and the characterisation of Sanchit.



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