I don’t know why I am writing this, probably because of the commitment made before signing for this book review program. Well lets honour the commitment.
Ravi Subramanian is a well known name in the literary community, I have read his previous work and appreciated most of it. The book “The Bestseller She Wrote” has a very attractive book cover and the tag line which goes with it, “Soon to be a Motion Picture” is as attractive as anything else.
The book is about our ‘rockstar’, ‘bestseller handsome author’, ‘paperback king’ who is clearly the Shahrukh Khan of the literary world. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, a successful banker from National Bank and an even more successful author. He has resembles with many Indian authors of our time (so its left to guessing if he is actually fictional). The lady of the book, is a sensuous young women studying in the final year of Management at IIM Bangalore; like everything else she is also a topper of the batch, breathtakingly beautiful and very smart. She as quoted is from a small town girl from Raipur (Raipur used here only to equate the name of bestseller; nothing significant other than that) is fighting to make big in this pretentious bad world.
After a rift, well pictured in the begging of the book, between the two main characters of the story; get attracted towards each other. In various filmy Bollywood style there are sequences where they get opportunities to come closer and then finally Shreya (the lead lady) seduces Aditya (the rockstar author), only to use him to get her book published. Aditya like any other helpless male is drawn towards her and jeopardises his marriage with the loving and caring wife, Maya. Maya seems to be an unexplored character with high potential in the book.
The book actually looks like a script a masala Bollywood film, a few characters with varied shades that add to the book and has various twists and turns like Maya visiting France and contracting swine flu, Aditya’s best buddy Sanjay and his affair with Diana and his inclination towards the women in Aditya’s life, the detailed sexual sequences etc. Instead of being chosen to be a movie line, it seems other way round for this book.
The book is 390 odd pages with 85 chapters, seems unnecessarily prolonged and hits of the same being given in the book as well (lesser number of pages can’t be sold at above 250 INR). The other annoying thing in the book is the advertisements made for stores like Crossword and other brand authors and also the book reviewing program by Blogadda. It seems uncanny and unlike like. A quick read this book is, but the story doesn’t live up to the billing. The climax is prolonged and the supererogatory thriller ending are like the final straw to my endurance.
Overall, Id award a 2/5 stars to this “The Bestseller She Wrote”.
Genre: Romance Thriller
ISBN/ASIN: 9789385152382
Publisher: Westland
The views expressed here are my own, unbiased and uninfluenced.
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