The Bestseller She Wrote-Ravi Subramanian

Book: The Bestseller She Wrote
Author: Ravi Subramanian
Publisher: Westland Books

Do you think ambition can affect your ability to make informed choices?

The Bestseller She Wrote by Ravi Subramanian is the story of the Paperback king Aditya Kapoor, whose life is straight out of a modern man’s fantasy. His literary stardom is perfectly balanced by a loving wife and a spectacular career. With everything he touches turning to gold, Aditya is on a winning streak. Shreya Kaushik is a student with a heart full of ambition. Young, beautiful, and reckless, Shreya speaks her mind and obsessively chases after what she wants. And what she wants is to be a bestselling author. What happens when their worlds collide? Is it possible to love two people at the same time? Can real ambition come in the way of blind passion? Can trust once broken, be regained? As the story delves into the glitzy world of bestsellers and uncovers a risky dalliance between a superstar novelist and his alluring protégé, what we see is a combustible cocktail of love, betrayal, and redemption.

I had heard about this book quite a few times, and while I had wanted to pick it up, it somehow got missed every time. As Amazon Prime announced that the series based on the book was getting premiered and coupled with Westland’s impending closure, I decided to get a copy of it. As one reads the blurb, the book seems to be about love and adultery, but the actual crux of the story is completely different. The book explores not just the relationship of our lead characters, Shreya, Maya, and Aditya, but rather also focuses on how ambition and past can lead us to make some choices we go on to regret. The things that did work for me include the pace of the book, the structure of the story and the way Ravi weaves the climax to bring the story to a closure. The story initially confused me for a bit because I had a love story as a preconceived notion and I was wondering where the book events were leading up to, however things do make sense in hindsight once the climax unfolded. Another good aspect of the story was that while the author explores the adulterous relationships, the characters never once pass judgements, or condone it. The plot moves at a brisk pace, and while it is a long read, it does not tire you out and in the end, you are left with the satisfaction of reading a nicely crafted story. The cherry atop the cake were some recognizable names that are a part of the literary world and that added a whiff of real world into the fictional world.

The characters are well sketched, and the book moves on the complexity of the characters that Ravi had built into this story. Aditya’s character is quite simple, and I liked the fact that Ravi kept this one simple to ensure that the twist he had in mind was palatable as well as easy to execute. Shreya’s character, on the other hand, had me guessing and I did have my assumptions about her that, ultimately, did not prove to be right. I had my suspicions about Sunaina’s character by the way she was popping up in the story, and I believe that is the best thing about the characters is that they keep evolving throughout the book.

Overall, this book is worthy of a screen adaptation, and if the makers are true to the story as Ravi brings out in this book, then I am excited to do a binge watch. The Bestseller She Wrote gets a 4.81/5 for me.

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