Hello people… long time no? Yeah
I was taking a break after the month long challenge… What all did I do last
month – had some good time with my mother in law who was visiting us, hosted
some parties at home, went shopping, went for some trips and have been
following the elections and rejoicing our new PM. So naturally didn’t quite
update the blog. So all of May I made merry now on June 1 I am back to my
blogs. I know I am weird but that’s how I am!!
But now that I have sat down to
write, I am thinking of listing down what all I want to write – there are some
book reviews which are coming up, there will be some travel posts also and I
will continue with the short fictions. Good enough? I hope they are.
This post is going to be on a
long pending book review of a romance fiction – The Agony of Love by Neilay Khasnabish. This young author had sent me
the book some time back and I was (am still) in a mood for some romance genre so
this was the perfect one for the moods.
So let’s see how this one was.
The Story
Young Srijan Ghose lands up in
Delhi looking for a job. He falls for the beautiful Priyam Majumdar, a DU
student, who stays in the neighborhood. She inspires Srijan to find that hidden
quality in him and he pens down his maiden poetry ‘Fragrance’ as a tribute to her beauty. While the family wants him
to take up a job in Guwahati, Srijan wants to be with Priyam and decides
against it. The decision is not taken positively by his brother with whom he
was staying in Delhi.
Thrown away from the house he
finds a job at a store as a salesman and continues writing poetries. It takes
strange turns when he gets kidnapped, tortured and threatened to lose his life
if he didn’t leave Priyam and Delhi.
But his only aim is make his love
for Priyam work.
My Thoughts
Well aren’t the love stories all
same – boy, girl, family, and then the end? Well this one goes in a similar
line but thankfully there’s a thrill element as well, with the kidnapping of
the protagonist. The author must be a close observer of nature or a poet
himself to give us such descriptions of nature, flower birds et all.
My only complaint would be the
editing and proof reading too. I am finding these things lately in several
books. Sometimes when you do not do a good proof reading you end up with a
character being called by two names which confuses the readers.
The writing style is good with
simple vocabulary, the author has made good use of metaphors and I liked the
part where historical incidents are described. And also the snippet of the book
says “This story in the guise of
fiction is the offshoot of firsthand experience of life” so quite an
adventure.
Ohh one more thing - I don't always comment on the cover of a book because I don't judge them with it but I quite liked the cover of this one. It's cute.
The Author
This is the debut novel by this
young author. Currently, he is settled in
Bangalore, and working as a Research Engineer. His scientific and creative
writings were published in ‘The Assam Tribune’, ‘The Sentinel’, ‘Asomiya
Khabor’, ‘Bigyan Jeuti’, ‘Unish Kuri’, and ‘Sonajhuri’. He has published a number
of research papers in reputed journals. Now
he is working on his second novel on the backdrop of Kaziranga [This info is from Good Reads]
My
Rating 3/5 It’s an okay one time read
Book – The Agony of Love
Author – Neilay Khasnabish
Genre – Romance
Publisher – Leadstart Publishing
Published in – 2013
Format - Paperback
ISBN 13 – 978-9383562220
ISBN 10 – 9383562226
Pages – 175
Price – INR 145
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This book was sent by the author. These are entirely my own views and I try not to be biased while reviewing.
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