Book:
The Crossfire of Love
Author:
Dhiren Tiwari
Publisher:
Srishti Publications
Some stories are meant to stay in the past
and if brought out now, can cause havoc in the lives of all the people today.
The
Crossfire of Love by Dhiren Tiwari is a story of
Amaan, who has come back to his Kingdom of Attanooga, to fulfill his mother’s
last wish of a hometown funeral. He runs into Saira, an old girlfriend who’s
making a documentary on the late queen. Strangely, her memories are like an incomplete
puzzle with her estranged mother, or her broken heart from her break up with
Amaan all those years ago. Saira gets a
chance to resurrect her relationship as well as her save her flailing career
from going down in the dumps. What happens when Saira, Amaan and the people
around them get caught in The Crossfire
of Love.
The plot of The Crossfire of Love by Dhiren Tiwari revolves around the backstory
of Amaan, Ria and what happened 10 years ago in the cottage in the jungle. The story
in the current times is quite jumbled up and it creates a lot of confusion as
the threads are quite loose in the story telling. The change of POVs between
Amaan and Saira is confusing at times and it becomes a challenge to keep track
of the story that is coming along. with multiple elements coming in, things get
foggier to a point where nothing seems coherent anymore. Towards the end of the
book, as the stories unravel, the story of what happened comes out and that truly
confuses the reader as to what had actually happened to Saira, Amaan and King
Rudra Pratap Singh 10 years ago.
Talking about the characters, the character
profiles of the protagonists, Saira and Amaan are not very substantial as
things are mixed up and at times the characters’ personas seem to conflict with
each other. The role of Mrs. Gaina is still not very clear till then end of the
story. The story is wrapped up, but the reason and the logic behind what happened
and why it happened is still foggy, at least for me.
The book gets a 2.5/5 from me.
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