Book:
My Happily Ever After
Author:
Sanjay Sharma
Publisher:
Srishti Publications
Fate, love and life- These are the things
that can neither be controlled nor influenced. Each of them will happen when
they are destined to happen.
My Happily Ever After by Sanjay Sharma is the story of Keshav, a guy from a small town in
Uttar Pradesh who dreams to make it big by following his passion-writing, but
folds under the family pressure and secures admission in a prestigious
engineering college and lands up in Delhi. A top-performer, he is a consistent
topper and is excelling in his course. When he returns to Delhi for his second
year, he comes across Aditi, who stumps him with her beauty and elegance. She aspires
to be a singer and not an engineer. Bonding over common thoughts, and passions,
things were going good until the 7th semester when a single incident
derails their lives as they know it. Aditi leaves to pursue her dreams and
Keshav spirals down into a well of depression and anxiety. It is a story of
deep friendships, life-altering dreams and everlasting love that can fuel you
if handled properly, but at the same time burn you if you are not careful.
My Happily Ever After by Sanjay Sharma is written from Keshav’s point of view. The plot
of the book is the usual boy-meets-girl story. As a stereotyped Indian
Engineer, he is smitten by the girl and his love starts lacking the physical
intimacy, while the girl is adamant of keeping the relationship platonic. Typical
to a boy’s hostel banter, students hype their friendship and things get out of
hand. The storytelling is pretty flat with the situations seeming random at
times. The pace is not consistent and that causes a break in the mind while
reading. There are multiple grammatical errors in the book and its needs a re
edit to improve on it. The prologue of the story is technically an executive summary
and serves no true purpose. The climax is good but is very hurried.
The character creation of Keshav is quite
generic. Other than the fact that he comes from Gorakhpur and is tall, we get
no information to create a character in our minds. Same goes for Aditi, though
she is described in a bit more detail. The family backgrounds of both the
characters are described nicely and thus it is easy to relate on that level. The
success stories of both Aditi and Keshav is very sudden and had time been given
on it, it would have helped the reader connect with them.
Overall, a good enough read, but could have
been better.
The book scores a 3/5 for me.
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