Book Review: 'Love Lasts Forever' by Vikrant Khanna
Hello all, hope all of
you are doing good. Today I am going to review a fiction by Vikrant Khanna,
titled ‘Love Lasts Forever- Only if you don’t marry your love’
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| Book Review: 'Love Lasts Forever' by Vikrant Khanna |
Author: Vikrant Khanna
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 978-93-82665-17-5
Publisher: Srishti Publishers and
Distributers
Price: 150 INR
Available at: Flipkart, Amazon
Characters: The protagonists of this story are definitely Ronit- a
sailor and Shekhar- his Captain. Then there are a few characters such as Shekhar's wife Shikha, Ronit’s first love and wife- Aisha, Ronit’s friend- Joe Singh and a funny
character that happens to be Aisha’s brother- Priyank.
Story-line: As the story starts, we can see Ronit contemplating a
story that he was told by his Captain. It keeps revolving between two persons
at a time- Ronit and his Captain while they are aboard. The story is written in
reference to two different phases of time, gyrating between the years 1969 to
2014.
Ronit falls madly in love
with Aisha at first glance at the age of 18 and after a long wait of seven
years they got hitched. But things turn bad as he finds himself falling out of
love with his newly-wed within barely a month to their marriage, or he believes
that. He thinks of taking a break and to leave her company for a time-being and
then divorcing her after returning. But things run another way as the Captain
invites him to his cabin over a drink and narrates his own love-story to him. How
the captain’s story leaves Ronit awestruck and how it manages to change his
notion of love and makes him give a second chance to his love-story is the theme
of this book.
My Words: Love Lasts Forever is definitely a love story but
slightly of a different manner. As mentioned
earlier, this story goes round with two different people from two different
times. The captain’s story brings out a totally emotional scenario between two orphan
lovers. Ronit, who is another protagonist in the story, narrates his love-story
which eventually leads to doom. Some things that I liked about the story are-
the uncomplicated and effortless narration of the stories, usage of simple
language and the emotional ups and downs that were delivered with clarity.
Things that I did not like are- at some places I found it very incoherent when
Ronit describes Aisha’s behaviour, sometimes it feels that the author is forcing
the readers to be sympathetic with Ronit’s character despite the fact that the
reasons given to hate someone so strongly that it leads to a divorce are not
convincing at all. I don’t think it might strike anyone but I somehow found out
that more than a couple of characters are given the same speech style. At some points, the encounters with
Aisha's brother felt way too exaggerated.
To sum up, I’d say that ‘Love Lasts Forever’ is a good read
throughout. I won’t say it will change your beliefs about love but it will
definitely make them stronger. A single more word would be a spoiler, so I won’t
say anything more in this regard. Although, I can’t deny the fact that it was a
little boring in the middle, somewhat lengthened but one will found the story irresistible
as a lot of people would relate to it. The author has written the story with so
much ease and both the story included in the book are equally enjoyable.
I hope you find the review helpful and would read the story of
Ronit as soon as possible. Let me know how you liked it or unliked it. Picture used in this post belongs to me. Please do not reuse this elsewhere without my permission. Mail me anytime at- sayantineebh@gmail.com. Thanks for reading! Till next time J
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