
Name:The Bestseller She Wrote
Author: Ravi Subramanian
Publisher: Westland
M.R.P: Rs. 295
My Rating: 2.5/5
I was quite obsessed with the whole subtitle of the book: Love. Betrayal. Redemption.
This is what caught my eye because I am a sucker for such things. I was quite looking forward to reading this book but I was a little bit disappointed, may be because I was hoping for something which I did not find in the book.
Basically, the book is about this about Aditya Kapoor, a banker and an over-the-top famous author who is also very handsome and hot and has a wife and a kid. Well, I think all these things went a little far. And not to forget, he has this hamartia ( a fatal flaw) which forces him to have an extra-marital affair with this stupid-ambitious girl Shreya Kaushik who only wants to use him to get her book published.
Let's start with the first word of the subtitle:
Love.
Aditya loves his wife, Maya and his kid but at the same time he starts to fall in 'love' with Shreya. He is not sure whether it is love in Shreya's case or just lust. Despite knowing the repercussions of his extra-marital affait, he continues his relationship with Shreya.
Betrayal.
Maya is betrayed by Aditya (yes, she gets to know that he is cheating on her simultaneously battling with Ebola, like seriously?!). Aditya, in turn, is betrayed by Shreya who used him to get to her book published. Aditya is also betrayed by his so-called best buddy who wants to see his downfall.
Redemption.
It comes towards the end, when Aditya realizes his mistake, gets to know that it was his best-friend who wanted to destroy his personal life and his literary career. he apologizes to Maya ( yes, she is miraculously saved by a vaccine for Ebola) and then they live happiy ever-after.
Things I liked:
1. There were some one-liners that were like really good.
2. The characters well- sketched except Shreya Kaushik.
Things I didn't like:
1. The theme of the master-student love affair is way too common.
2. It was boring in the first part but in the next half it gathered pace.
3. There were events which just seemed way far from reality. I know it is fiction but then, things like Shreya turning up for every effing event which Aditya was a part of seemed irrational. And then comes the miracle of Maya getting saved by this mysterious vaccine for Ebola.
4. The character of Shreya was beyond my grasp. Like literally! She was such a bitch- if I may use this one word to define her.
Mostly, at every point, I was like "Oh really, now I will have to digest this?!"
To sum it up, it definitely wasn't what I was expecting.
I will give it a 2.5/5
This was the first book I ever read by Ravi Subramanian and I am not at all looking forward to read the others.
What are your views about the novel?
Love,
The Bibliopagist.
Picture from: http://www.amazon.in/The-Bestseller-Wrote-Ravi-Subramanian/dp/9385152386