"Of Course I Love You! Till I Find Someone Better" by Durjoy Datta and Maanvi Ahuja

Source by Ruchi Chandra

A story set in the Indian Capital about an Engineering student Deb and his pathetic love life.

Debashish or Deb as he is called by all his friends has had a long list of girlfriends in the past years but his life changes when he meets Avantika. Deb is immature and always finding ways of getting in bed with his girlfriend and dumping them soon after. He is fat and ugly in his own definition. His college grades are slipping.

He meets Avantika, and falls madly in love at the first sight. Avantika is way too delicate and beautiful with a colourful past of drug and rehabilitation. But now Avantika follows a spiritual guru who helped her come clean after drugs and such. Deb manages to get barred from College Placements and ends up in his dad’s government company after completing his engineering. There he becomes friends with an office genius and helps him win over the love of his life, while Avantika has broken up with him and gone to Bangalore.

Will Deb get over his state of broken heart and hopelessness, will he get the love of his life back? Will he get himself to work hard and get a better job for himself?

Story is simply set and talks about today’s youth and the kind of problems they face. How confused they are when it comes to relationships and the matters of heart. The tone of the story is simple, day to day language and quite healthy paced, until Deb gets into the heart broken state and the story drags on for a while. There is nothing new, nothing exciting in the story, yet it is an easy and quick read. No matter whether you like it or not, chances are you would just keep reading and soon reach the end of the story.

My personal opinion isn’t too good about the book. It was simple read, day to day life story yet totally made up. One can at times relate to the story completely and other times one can feel that ahh it can only happen in fictional stories and no way in a real story. The reason for Deb’s breakup as given by Avantika is pathetic and unbelievable. The phase Deb gets into after that is quite real but drags on and on and hence gets boring for a reader instead of touching the heart.

This book has been on bestseller list for quite a while, which was quite surprising, given that there is no uniqueness, or freshness in the story or narration.