Book Review: Aashiqui by Callre

Book: Aashiqui -Where there is love, there is life...

Author: Callre

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Genre: Fiction(Romance)

Blurb:

Rahul Bedi's college dreams include an education, meeting new friends and hopefully launching a successful music career. With the notes in his soul, he feels the rhythm in his rhymes and the beat of the instruments even when he closes his eyes. When he meets Sia Lennox, her voice and her form inspire that music and shine through every interaction they have. There is something about her that pulls him and calls to him... an underlying feeling that maybe she is the one who will complete him and be the partner he need. However, sorority princess Priya walks and talks as if Rahul is already hers, a fact that seems surer by the day. While Sia is not exactly looking for a relationship, there is something about Rahul that makes her catch her breath - and ensures that a confrontation with Priya is inevitable.

Review:

This book I read after I finished a very hefty plot driven book and it really relaxed me a bit. The story is not anything unusual, but it has something to it which can’t be pointed out in general.

This is the story of two people who fall in love, but things are not that easy going for them. I read this book back in July, but I am still not sure how I felt about it. The main concern I had with the book is the length, the story had so much to say but things wrapped way too soon than needed.

The reader is getting connected to the characters and suddenly the ambience changes and characters are in a different reality. I felt a smooth realtionship was missing between the characters and the reader.

Also, I felt that the character of Priya was under done. She had a lot of potential as a character and the story could have been a little interesting, but the narration kept revolving around the struggles of the two main characters which really didn’t allow the book to breathe as much it needed to.

Keeping the comments short I would like to mention the fact that the book was enjoyable but not in a way an avid reader would want it to be. I enjoyed it at some point when the story was going somewhere but every time I saw a peak the downhill was not far.

The book can be a good pick for those who love reading contemporaries which light plot.

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