This one is a simple story of Samar, a CA, who meets a girl in the most typical way (a common tuition class), falls in love with her, gets married and has a kid. And as is the case with most of the dreamy love stories, the wife dies in an accident, leaving Samar behind to care for their son all alone. Now Samar seems to be a guy whose only aim in life is to find true love, his other half separated by Greek God Zeus. A girl apparently smitten by Samar, for reasons not convincingly attributed to Samar’s personality, reveals her love for Samar over some cliched texts, and he instantly falls in love with her as well (!). And then ‘A saga of deceit served on a platter of lies’, pretty much suggests how this part of the story would end.
I do not usually fancy love stories, but I do not occasionally mind interestingly narrated sagas. Unfortunately, this story was too shallow for my taste. There was nothing that we haven’t already read or watched in movies. My primary issue was with the shallowness with which Samar’s character is handled. He loses his wife, with whom he is dearly in love with, sinks into a depression, and bounces back not becomes he is spiritually moved or has understood higher meaning of life ( as a couple pages seem to suggest), but only because he thinks his wife’s loss was indication that a new love was to be found. And so he does. And once in love, his son entirely drops out of the equation. The father-son bond that is suggested to have gotten stronger after the wife’s death, is wrapped up in a sentence, with no meat to it. Next, the girl Samar has newly fallen in love with, clearly is shown to have been lying to him over trivial reasons, but Samar chooses to ignore it all, because, LOVE (forever!). This guy, who goes on to becoming a VP from a CA, is not even smart enough to understand how he is being used!? It takes a few cursory characters, which come randomly out of nowhere as one friend from here and other from there, to help Samar put it all together about his new love. These characters are so random, that I wondered why they were even named. No character seemed to be having any depth, all functioning one-dimensionally, adding up no substance to the story.
The language of the book is ok, the pace hurried at time, and dragging at other. I wouldn’t particularly recommend this book to regular readers who might have read much better literature, but for those who have just begun reading or like casual romance, they can pick this book up. I finished the book in one sitting, and if I hadn’t, I would have probably lost interest in reading the book at all.