Book:
Curse of Suspicion
Author:
Dr. Sujay Kantawala
Publisher:
Leadstart Inkstate
How many times have you taken a hasty
decision based on your suspicions?
Curse of Suspicion by Dr. Sujay Kantawala is the story of Duryodhan, a middle-aged
lawyer, who suspects his wife of cheating on him and wants to get rid of her.
Being from an affluent family, she was the owner of the house in which he lived;
hence he could not divorce her, and thus decides to kill her. He employs a
snake handler to place a venomous snake in her bed to do the job. Unknown to
him, his son has the skill to talk to snakes and is arrested for the crime of
murdering his mother. Will the truth ever come out or will the son bear the
punishment for the father’s crimes?
Curse of Suspicion by Dr. Sujay Kantawala is based in Mumbai and the author has used
his extensive legal experience to craft the storyline. While the blurb of the
book makes it out to be the story of suspicions, revenge, crime, the storyline
is quite different. The crime part of the book ends somewhere halfway and after
that it is just a story of repentance, spirituality and love. The plot of the
story has a very strong beginning but halfway through, it gets slumped down a
bit due to changing of gears. The change in timelines is also not very apparent
and the time gap between incidents is not that easy to grasp. The idea of the
son talking to snakes has also been very briefly explored and thus the concept
and the execution do not match much. Parts of the story seem to be hurried and
the ending of the book was not very satisfactory.
The character development is also quite
weak as we do not get much information as to why the characters behave the way
they do. The character of Duryodhan is the one most explored in the book and we
get to see his life as it moves, but any incidents that lead to his nature of
being suspicious is not present. Same is the case with his son, where we get no
information as to how and why did he start speaking with snakes. This
development after his arrest has been covered extensively but that is too
little, too late. The love story in the plot seemed unnecessary and felt like a
parallel story that added no substance to the main plot.
Overall, a good read, but the blurb of the
book needs to be revisited to make it suitable as per the plot.
For me, the book scores, 3.13/5.
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