52 Seasons of Love-Neeraj Yadav

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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