Gunpoint Groom-Kamini Kusum

Book: Gunpoint Groom

Author: Kamini Kusum

Publisher: Redgrab Books

Are marriages predestined, or do we make our own destiny? Imagine your life being given a complete twist one day and everything that you see now ceases to exist as you know it?

Gunpoint Groom by Kamini Kusum is the story of Karan Rai, a government servant, who is in love with Jia and plans to marry her, who is abducted and is forced to marry a stranger at gunpoint. The journey of accepting his fate and a transformational journey for Karan begins thereafter when he starts accepting reality. On the other hand, Kavya, his forced wife, explores the life where she is in an unwanted relationship and how emotions develop the course of time between people living under one roof. This is a story of love, romance, sex, sadness and it explores the world of groom kidnapping and what takes place in the families that go through it.

Gunpoint Groom by Kamini Kusum takes up a good story but the plot development is quite weak. The groom kidnapping part of the book is rather sudden and culminates really fast. The bride’s family seems quite unconvincing with whatever happens in the book. Moving from Arrah to Gurgaon, the story still does not pick up pace and we suffer from a flat and rather draining storytelling. Infidelity by Karan and his closeness to Jia takes the forefront and Kavya is used as a filler for the story of Karan. The climax of the book was very expected, and it seems more like a Bollywood movie script, rather than a book. There are numerous grammatical errors in the book that further reduce the experience while reading the book.

The character development is not that well defined. We get no background on the love story of Jia and Karan, nor do we see the unravelling of the two marriage proposals quoted by Kavya’s family in the book. It would have been interesting to have included them in the book, thus developing a character for Karan’s family, Karan’s Family and Jia’s Family as well. Kavya, as a character, grows in the story but it does not suffice the plot holes. I liked the way the character of Karan comes out in the end, but it was too little, too late.

Overall, a good enough read.

It scores a 2.5/5 for me.