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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