Forever Yours-Shilpa Suraj, Alisha Kay & Andaleeb Wajid

Book: Forever Yours
Author: Shilpa Suraj, Alisha Kay & Andaleeb Wajid
Publisher: Amazon Kindle

Can hate transform into love?

Forever Yours is a novel written in 3 parts. Set in the background of a pretend engagement which ends in a very real combined bachelor/bachelorette weekend in Goa, three couples find their lives going from chaotic to disastrous. Hatefully Yours by Alisha Kay is the quintessential enemies to lovers story with a very interesting twist. Sinfully Yours by Shilpa Suraj is the story of a one-night stand turning into nights that they hope never end. Deceitfully Yours by Andaleeb Wajid is the story of what happens when a fake relationship starts to feel very, very real. Three love stories, three oddball couples, one epic weekend in Goa. Will they find their heart’s twisted path or focus on the brain’s straight-but-boring one? Will they gamble on their happily-ever-after or choose to leave Goa as they came, single and not ready to mingle?

The concept of 3 people writing a connected story is quite an interesting one as we get to see how the storytelling changes when the authors change. The idea of 3 connected parallel stories set in the same location is quite interesting, and while the three of them are fairly independent, they have threads connecting each other which adds a nice touch to the compiled novel. Each of the three stories is nicely told, and the basic premise is quite same, though each of them maintains a distinct flavor of its own as well. In case of Hatefully Yours, we see two people who never see eye to eye fall head over heels, in Sinfully Yours we see two people, who probably would not have gotten together fall in love, and in Deceitfully Yours, we see a romance that started out as a way to get out of sticky situations. The three romance stories are heartwarming as well as steamy and make for a wonderful read. With a climax that would please even the die-hard romantics, three times over, and then some more, this book is definitely one to read.

Coming to the characters, I loved how the characters have been crafted intricately and they way their character flaws become a critical part of the plot. Right from Aditi and Manan in Hatefully Yours, to Sid and Dani in Sinfully Yours; and Sanjana and Karthik in Deceitfully Yours, we see how history plays a crucial part in their interactions with each other. Another interesting aspect of the characters is that while not much is told about them before or after the weekend, yet the details are just enough to create a picture of them as the authors would have liked them to be like.

Overall, this is a book I would definitely recommend if you like reading a well written romance story. The book scores a 4.81/5 for me.

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