Book:
52 Seasons of Love
Author:
Neeraj Yadav
Publisher:
General Press
Can a love story span from Childhood to
Adulthood, when it is faced with a lot of hurdles?
52 Seasons of Love by Neeraj Yadav is the love story of 2 souls-Shama and Kishan. Their
story is about innocent childhood love blooming as they grow to adulthood. Their
love transcends the boundaries of society and religion. The story explores what
happens to them when they grow up and face the hurdles of society.
52 Seasons of Love by Neeraj Yadav explores the life journey of Kishan and Shama and
how they explore their love for each other through various incidents. The book
starts with the birth of Shama and Kishan and how they meet each other for the
first time. we are then taken through a ride through their lives where they
part ways, seemingly never to meet again but fate brings them at the same place
again. The author explores the notion that when people are meant for each
other, life finds a way for them to meet. The book continues in their college
life wherein they muster up the courage to finally accept their feelings and
thus their journey together begins. At the crossroads where college life ends
and they have to make a decision, they are faced with the archaic customs and rules
that cause them grief. The plot of the book is quite simple and is an easy read.
While some parts of the book are commendable, a major part of the book looks
stretched and the conversations are monotonous and boring. Identifying the
places where the changeover from conversing with self to conversing with people
is quite difficult. The language of the book is irritating at some level as it
does not match with the plotline of the book. Many of the scenes are too stretched
and the climax comes and goes off in a jiffy, which is not something I expected
from the plotline.
Coming to the characters, they have been
created literally from scratch in the book. We take a journey through almost 2
decades of their lives. The character of Kishan is shown to be highly ethical
and someone with great moral fiber. Through various incidents, this character
of his is reinforced. The one where he sees the senior who was a part of the
group that came to rag the batch but refuses to divulge the name is one such
incident. For Shama, the same is true as well. One under appreciated character
in the story is that of Shama’s mother, Salma who we see as one of the
strongest characters in the story. In the beginning we see that she realizes that
her husband is a philanderer, yet decides to stay on for the sake of her
children, but towards the end, for the sake of Shama’s happiness, confronts him
and makes sure that no harm comes to Shama or Kishan by anyway possible, and
for this the story goes up a notch higher.
Overall, an easy read and would be liked by
people who are into romance as a genre. 52 Seasons of Love takes away a 3.25 on
5 from me.
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