The Girl with Blue Eyes-Vaiibhav Nigam

Book: The Girl with Blue Eyes

Author: Vaiibhav Nigam

Publisher: Self Published

Do you believe in the concept of love at first sight? Have you ever met someone who becomes so intoxicated in love that he crosses all the lines?

“The Girl with Blue Eyes” is the story of Armaan Sinha. It was love at first sight for him when he met Tanisha in his college. Though he courts her successfully, things turn complicated between them. To add to their woes, Armaan meets with a serious accident on the same day and that becomes a turning point in the lives of Tanisha & Armaan. He recollects seeing a woman with striking blue eyes just after the accident just as he collapsed. Forwarding to a couple of months later, he comes across the same woman in a mall and decides to initiate a conversation as he was unknowingly drawn towards her. Things escalate fast and he becomes romantically and physically involved with that girl and things become so serious that he does almost everything that she asked of him. What happens next is a complex chain of events that create a lot of difficult situations for Armaan, Tanisha and “the girl with blue eyes”.

The plot of the story is simple, and things move at a brisk pace. The plot development is not very good as the scenes seem sort of disconnected. The basic premise of the story takes too long to come up. The underlying theme of the book can be understood if a reader pays a bit of attention. The climax is not very well crafted and looks hurried. Assuming that the book is supposed to be a romantic thriller, it fails to create a feeling of chills or even a hurry in pace to reach the climax. The scenes between Tanisha & Armaan are somewhat good, but the scenes between Armaan and “the girl with blue eyes” should have been crafted with more detail. Overall, a better climax could have been crafted as the plot conception is very good.

Coming to the character development, or rather a lack of it, we have no understanding of why does Armaan behave in the manner that he does. There is no backstory, no flashbacks or explanations throughout the book. The same is true for Tanisha, but the bit towards the end at least takes care for her backstory.

One thing that will turn off the reader completely is the poor usage of grammar and multiple spelling mistakes throughout the book. Starting from the very beginning itself, there are simple words that are spelt wrong. For example, “Steering Wheel” is written as “Staring Wheel” more than once. At multiple places, words that have been used could have been replaced with more appropriate words. The book needs a thorough reediting to remove these chinks as they take the interest away.

Over all, the book can only takeaway 2.5/5 from me.