Love Bites-Ravinder Singh with Richa S Mukherjee

Book: Love Bites

Author: Ravinder Singh with Richa S Mukherjee

Publisher: HarperCollins India

Do you think the Lockdown has helped you take a closer look at your life and get closer to people?

Love Bites is the story of Meera, a who is bored during the pandemic induced lockdown and had nothing to do until she meets Kevin, a boy who lives in the apartment above hers. While they are unable to see each other, thet communicate through their balconies. With music wafting in and messages, food and condiments making their way across the balconies using a basket, an unusual story writes itself. Like life, this story also has its share of bumps, and maybe their story was meant to have a different ending.

Penned by Ravinder Singh with Richa S Mukherjee, Love Bites is a flavourful love story that seems oddly relevant to me. With bite sized moments of love, the authors have added different condiments of emotions in the story that are like a delicacy which infuse a completely different flavor with each bite a reader takes. The story gets its foundation from visual storytelling and since the protagonists are locked up in their respective homes, we experience their story through other senses like taste, smell and sound. Each moment has been painstakingly written keeping in mind this aspect which makes it a wonderful read. The climax of the story was surprising and just like a dessert, leaves you wanting for more.

In a short story, defining characters is quite a difficult task, but in just one scene, the authors managed to paint a picture of how Meera and Kevin visualize each other. The characters have their own quirks and the details of how they come up are quite lovely.

The story gets a 4.63/5 from me and I would implore everyone to go and get a taste of this amazing dish prepared by the authors.

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