Name :Secretly Yours
Author: Vikrant Khanna
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143425915
Price: Rs 175/-
No. of Pages: 271
About the Author:
Vikrant Khanna is a captain in the merchant navy. His other books include Love Lasts Forever and When Life Tricked me.
Synopsis:
The protagonist is a 17 year old Sahil, who has lost his parents and blames himself for that. He stays with his grandmother, a sibling and his cousin. He is one person who has everything and yet nothing. The book portays that he loves music and less of studies.
This teenager’a life is unlike most of the teenagers in the nation. He takes to self-harm,drinking and smoking.
He has little interest in life until he meets the enigmatic, too positive and mysterious Anya to whom he had to teach guitar.
The seventeen-year-old protagonist falls in love with this mysterious girl and makes friends with her bunch of friends who are weird too. Apparently, Anya and her bunch of friends believe that Sahil can never get Anya.
Sahil is heartbroken and in a turn of events he meets with an accident, that kills his grandmother and lands him in the hospital with a coma. Them he recovers gets Anya back and mind reads.
Sahil has a strained relationship with everyone around him. The accident brings him close to people around him but he is still obsessed with Anya. Highly over thinking for a seventeen-year-old.
He discovers Anya and her gang’s secret and has a Twilight moment in their house like how Bella had in Edward ‘s.
If you are intrigued and what to know what the secret is, pick up the book and no, she is not a vampire.
My say:
The book is extremely dramatic and portrays things that a teen actually doesn’t do. The book is like a script written for a Bollywood movie with a Hollywood twist. Like a blend of Twilight book and a high on drama Bollywood movie. Fiction at times are too good to believe but the most content here is unrealistic and the author leaves one hanging in the air on many aspects without giving proper closure.
Unrealistic aspects of the book put me off. Where one side problems and what a teenager thinks is dealt , the other side the problems and lifestyle is highly magnified in a wrong way. An elaborate discussion of unnecessary things is an off again. I expected the thriller part to be exciting but as the book progressed my interests went down flat. Definitely not a single sitting book unless you are going to skip a lot of parts.
Pros:
- Short chapters
- Easy to understand.
- Simple language.
- Describes teen turmoil to an extent.
Cons:
- Too much exaggeration.
- Poor editing.
- Poorly titled chapters
- Predicatable ending.
- Misleading blurb.
The book is a okay one time read. Pick it at your own risk. If you don’t mind defying reality and a little truth, you can go ahead.
I haven’t read the other books of the author but this book was disappointing and could have been better.
All in all I would rate the book a 2/5.
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The turn of events you described does seem Bollywood style already. I’d be interested in reading a teen story, but not something that doesn’t portray well the ways of a teen. Thanks for sharing the review.
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I know. There are very few books that deal with teens but are as wrongly portrayed as this one.
Oh my literary Gods! This girl is so tough in rating. 🙂
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Haha, Ajay! Thanks for reading. 🙂
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Interesting premise but the cons are something that will discourage me from picking. I have seen Indian authors being very casual about writing and the haste of publishing gets to them. Yes, it may sound boisterous when I am no author but still :/ Plus the drama could get to me 😉
I liked that you honestly put it out there.
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Thank you, Parul. 🙂
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Interestingly reviewed. The theme interest me for sure:)
Haha. Yeah, the theme is interesting but not the book. 🙂
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Interesting premise however the cons area unitasure} one thing that may discourage me from choosing. I even have seen Indian authors being terribly casual concerning writing and therefore the haste of publication gets to them. Yes, it’s going to sound boisterous after I am no author however still and the drama may get to Maine.
I likeable that you just honestly place it out there.
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