The Car with a Soul: A Four-Wheel Drive Adventure-Ruchira Khanna

Book: The Car with a Soul: A Four-Wheel Drive Adventure
Author: Ruchira Khanna
Publisher: Amazon Kindle

What do you think is required to balance our life?

The Car with a Soul: A Four-Wheel Drive Adventure by Ruchira Khanna explores the story of four people who cross paths in an unexpected manner. Rahil is a car geek and attributes his desires to the four wheels of the car; Amy is hungry for happiness as her career has hit the brakes; Joan is on the lookout for a meaningful relationship as her unpleasant past gives her nightmares & Tara was living a fulfilled life until her wheel of health gets a puncture. When the four of them go on a journey of a lifetime, can each of them endure the travel while keeping their wheels balanced, or will their car lose its momentum along the way? The Car with a Soul is an emotional, uplifting story of love, heartbreak, laughter, and friendship.

The book is an interesting story that talks about how a balanced life is important for one to be happy. Through her 4 main characters, Ruchira brings to light how each aspect of our life needs to be in sync for us to live a fulfilled life. The book has a nice storytelling graph and the story moves ahead with a pace that seems slow in the beginning, but picks up after a while. Ruchira takes her time to set the premise as each of the characters’ backstory is critical to the climax, which becomes apparent only when you turn the last page. The idea to use a fictional story to drive a message home is interesting, but I would have preferred if one of the characters would have actually explored the concept of the car in detail. We see them talking about it and the snippets are there, but the overall idea is not explained in detail. Another thing that could have been improved is that the language at times seems disjointed and another round of proofreading could have improved it. The climax is nicely crafted and brings a nice close to the story.

Coming to the characters, the way they are sketched is commendable, and I liked how she uses the past of the characters to set up the plot of the book. The intersection of the paths of these characters is another thing that stands out about the book and is one of the great things about it. The interactions between the characters are what drive the story forward and personally, I felt that those could have been structured in a better manner so as to make clear distinction of the moods of the characters.

Overall, a story I would definitely recommend and the book scores a 4.31/5 for me.

I was provided a media copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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