The One From The Stars - review by Abhishek pandey

The One From The Stars.

Book Title- The One From The Stars.

Author- Keshav Aneel

Genre- Inspirational (Fiction) 

Publication- Srishti Publications

The One From The Stars

Pages- 152 "The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had".Do you agree?

This is a story about a boy Vishesh Raghav,  who was a management student studying in Chandigarh. He was a very bright student and a very energetic and full of life person. He loved participating in debates , elocution, extempore or poetry recitation and he always burned the stage with his breathtaking performances and bagged a lot of trophies and first prizes.His ultimate dream was to become a writer.He had  3 very close friends Jaffy, Pujeet and Dhruv and he also had a girlfriend Nishtha, whom he loved dearly.

The story in the book is actually a narration that is being delivered by Dhruv to his daughter, so that Vishesh's story could inspire her and help her in taking crucial decisions when she faces difficulties in future.

Vishesh was very confident about his writing skills but his family did not support him at all and when his written work was turned down by almost all the publishing houses, he had no other option than to take the job his father had arranged for him. Soon he realized that selling policies and insurances by conning people was not something his conscience would allow him for a long time and one incident where one of his colleague had fooled a gullible old couple to buy a policy to save his job,  which would make the couple broke in the future, was the point in his life where he decided that he would quit the job and he did so after destroying all the evidences of that fraudulent deal.

His craze to follow his passion resulted in the loss of his love and job. His dreams were crushed and so was his self belief. What do you think Vishesh did after he had lost almost everything he once stood for. Did he decide to take his life and or was life still not done with torturing him. Did his dream ever come true. Find out after reading this extremely inspirational book.

If you are looking for  some serious inspiration to follow your dreams, than this book is for you.

My rating - 4/5

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Until Love Sets Us Apart - review by Abhishek pandey

 Until Love Sets Us Apart

Book Title- Until Love Sets Us Apart

Author- Aditya Nighhot

Awards- Readers Choice Award

 Until Love Sets Us Apart

" Everything is fair in love and war and this is love with war".

 Rohit Jadhav ,an MBBS student is found guilty in the murder of 4 people and Aditya who has just started pursuing MBBS, comes across the news of Rohit being caught by the Police which is being aired on the TV, while he is giving treat to his friends for the release of his debut novel.

On watching this news a strange curiosity bubbles in him and he decides that he would follow this case and hopefully if he could know the entire story, he would pen down Rohit's story and so he along with his 2 friends Nikhil and Varun goes to meet ACP Deshmukh,  who happens to be one of Varun's close acquaintance.  Aditya and his friends request ACP Deshmukh to allow him to interview Rohit Jadhav, as he wants to know  why Rohit committed such a horrendous crime. But, even after repeated requests, ACP Deshmukh doesn't grant him the permission, but he agrees to give them the details about the accused and the murders he committed.

During this conversation, Aditya and his mates come to know about Rohit's best friend and roommate Alok. 

Thus to know about Rohit's story, they head towards Alok, who happens to be pursuing some post graduation course from Bharat College.

Alok narrates the entire story about how he met Rohit and how instantly they became good friends and goes on to discuss the lovely relationship that Rohit and Aisha shared and tells about his own love story with Kriti and his friendship with Aisha's close friend Neha as well.

Then in the blink of an eye  something very terrible happens in all these people's lives which changes everything and that incident only turns Rohit into a murderer.

So, what exactly happened with Rohit? Did Rohit have a very strong reason to commit those atrocious murders? Could any of his friends in any way have saved him from committing such a treason? Was Rohit's decision to take the law in his own hands justified? Does Aditya find Rohit's story worth turning into a novel? 

Find out after reading this amazing story of friendship, love and fierce revenge.

My rating- 4/5

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much - review by Abhishek pandey

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Book Title- The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Author- Vikrant Khanna 

Genre- Romance(Fiction) 

Publication - Penguin Random House Publications

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

"What if the loved one you lost were to come back" 

Exactly.This is the same hope that Sahiba lives on in this story, when love of his life Siddharth passes away a few days before their wedding.

Sahiba is a very religious person and has an unwavering belief in God. Siddharth's sudden death shatters her and a few days after this fateful incident, she has a dream where God informs her if she does a 1000 good deeds he would return Siddharth back to her.

But Siddharth wasn't the only one who loved her. Harvinder, Harry was also head over heels in love with Sahiba but before he could confess his love to her, he also dies in his own car and gets burnt to ashes. 

But Harry returns as a ghost and helps Sahiba in pursuing her mission of performing 1000 good deeds.

This entire story of Harry, Siddharth and Sahiba occured 8 years ago and  is now being narrated by Harry's ghost to a 13 yr old girl Akshara  who has also lost her mother a few weeks back.

So did Sahiba succeed in fulfilling her 1000 good deeds?Did Siddharth return from the dead?Was Harry hiding something? Was Akshara convinced with the story? Find out after reading this unconventional story of love, loss and belief.

I personally liked the idea behind the story and the message the writer was trying to convey and he did convey it in a great way through this story.

My rating -3.4/5

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Will You Still Love Me - review by Abhishek pandey

Will You Still Love Me

Book Title- Will You Still Love Me

Genre- Romance (Fiction)

Publication- Penguin Metro Reads

Will You Still Love Me

"There's more to love than just loving...It is also a promise"

This is the sweetest love story I've ever read and it conveys a very important message regarding road accidents.

The story starts with Rajveer meeting Lavanya on a flight to Chandigarh and she asks Rajveer to change seats as she had had a sleepless night  and wanted to rest leaning on the window. Rajveer is someone who is obsessed with 'Window Seat' but he gives in to her. Lavanya Gogoi belongs to the scenic hills of Shillong and Rajveer Saini belongs to Patiala.
While deboarding the plane, their luggages get exchanged with each other and that leads Rajveer to meet Lavanya again at her best friend's wedding.

Their love story progresses ahead and they become inseparable. Lavanya joins MBA course at ISB Mohali. Lavanya decides to use her spare time to teach some of the underprivileged children in the vicinity of her college. 

They both decide to get married but Rajveer's family opposes this decision very strongly at first but after knowing Lavanya fully, they finally agree. On receiving this wonderful news he decides to inform Lavanya by meeting her in person and thus leaves for Mohali not knowing, that drive will change his life forever.

What happened on his drive to Mohali?Did they get married?What happened to Rajveer and Lavanya ? Find out after reading this story.

I want to congratulate  Ravinder sir as "Will You Still Love Me" has won "The Most Popular Romance Of 2018" and really want to thank him for writing such a lovely story .

My rating - 4.8/5

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You Are Trending In My Dreams - review by Abhishek pandey

You Are Trending In My Dreams

Book Title- You Are Trending In My Dreams

Author - Sudeep Nagarkar

Genre- Romance ( Fiction)

Publication- Penguin Random House

You Are Trending In My Dreams

This is a story of 4 teenagers Ahana, Garima ,Malvika and Varun ,who live together and share a very lovely friendship.

Ahana is a very bold girl, who wants to be a fashion designer. She doesn't really take anyone's opinion and does as she likes and  lives life on her own terms.She has a flat in Mumbai and she moves to Mumbai for pursuing fashion designing at NIFT Mumbai from Delhi.

Ahana meets Malvika in the gym, who is looking for a room to stay in Mumbai and asks Ahana the same and she also informs her that another girl named Garima will move into the house along with her and Ahana readily agrees. Both Malvika and Garima are students of DYP Dental College. Malvika is a Mumbaikar and Garima is from Madhya Pradesh and used to share the same hostel room.

Varun, wants to be an entrepreneur, but his Ex Army officer dad wants him to join the army. His mother is not alive and his relationship with his father is very bad and he beats him regularly. Varun being fed up of his dad, decides to go to Mumbai, to pursue BSc and asks his close friend Ahana if he can stay with her and she agrees.

Varun falls in love with Malvika.Something very terrible happens in there lives and they have to do something very unethical to get away from that unfortunate incident.

This is a story of friendship and love. 

I personally loved the way Sudeep sir ended the book, it even got thrilling at the end. Yet another amazing book by Sudeep sir.

My rating- 4.6/5

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The Bestseller She Wrote - book review by Abhishek pandey

The Bestseller She Wrote

Book Title- The Bestseller She Wrote

Writer- Ravi Subramanian

Genre- Romantic, Suspense (Fiction)

Publication- Westland Ltd. 

The Bestseller She Wrote 

The story roams around Aditya Kapoor, who's a very successful writer and is given the title of 'Paperback King'.He is a former student of IIM Bangalore and works as the  Director Of Branch Banking at the National Bank.He has a lovely wife Maya and a kid Aryan and they lead a happily married life.

He happens to come across a final year student of IIM, Shreya Kaushik at his book launch, where the two get into a bit of a heated discussion on the subject of marketing a book. Shreya is also an ardent reader and aspires to be a writer.

Then, along with his best friend and colleague Sanjay( HR of National Bank), Aditya once again visits IIM Bangalore for the placements and somehow  convinces Sanjay to select Shreya for the National Bank.

Sanjay allocates Shreya into Aditya's team on his request.Aditya and Shreya become very close to each other and thus Aditya ends up having an affair with her.

Can Aditya keep this extra marital affair from his wife Maya whom he loves dearly. Does Shreya really love Aditya or is she having an altogether different agenda towards this relationship.

Will Maya be able to forgive Aditya when she finds out that her husband is cheating on her.Find out after reading this book.

If you've read any of Ravi Subramanian Sir's books, you would know that there's always a twist lurking somewhere in the story.

This is a fast paced tale of love, betrayal and redemption and the suspense at the end is convincing enough.

My Rating - 3.6/5

So this is the first book I've reviewed here, hope you'll liked it.If there's something I can improve in my further reviews, please feel free to comment on the post.

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