Book:
Freedom (Human Trafficking and Encounter with Soul)
Author:
JNK
Publisher:
Notion Press
There are some moments that hit you
immediately and change the way you look at things. This can happen at any point
in one’s life, all it needs is a trigger.
Freedom (Human Trafficking and Encounter
with Soul) by JNK is a collection of 2 stories. Human
Trafficking is the story of Honey, who works with Ahmedabad’s most famous
and intelligent detective. Through happenchance, she ends up investigating a
case of human trafficking and her interactions with them are terrifying. While
working on this case, she gets exposed to the dark underbelly of human
trafficking and related crimes. Encounter with Soul is the story of
Rasbeen, who is an intelligent, smart and ambitious girl. She has her own
dreams but is subdued under filial pressure. One day, she encounters her soul
and her life changes. The question is, will the soul lift her from heath and
make her confident?
Freedom
(Human Trafficking and Encounter with Soul) by JNK is a book that disappoints
on many fronts. The language used for the book is very dry and it seems like
reading an essay, as opposed to a story. There are multiple grammatical errors
that add to the woe of a flat storyline. Talking about the first story, Human
Trafficking, the plot is quite shallow and not much thrill is built into
it. The story starts abruptly and ends abruptly. The happenings in the story
are too vague to actually grab sense out of it. Every time the protagonist asks
for something, she gets it in the next instance, and thus no conflict actually
arises that can push the story forward. Everyone in the story seems to be
smitten by Honey because there are no instances, where you can actually corelate
things with reality. The ending does not excite much as well. Encounter with
Soul is a story that again falls flat because of the tonality. The situations
in the plot are not properly framed as to why something is happening, and it feels
that anything that happens is taking place just because it has to. Finding a
storyline here was quite difficult, apart from the premise of the cause and
effect of depression and mental health.
Talking about characters is not very
fruitful here because both the stories revolve around a single character who is
setting up the premise, is the aggrieved person, is the protagonist and the
problem solver which actually seems implausible. The character building is done
without any substantial idea as to why the characters are behaving the way they
do. There is no history provided and thus the character build up also fails to
deliver.
Overall, the premise of the story was good,
but it lacks in execution.
The book scores a 2/5 for me.
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