Anky's Book Bubble: Drama

Author: Capri Jalota

Genre: General Fiction.

Rating: 🍫🍫🍫🍫

Blurb:

One fine morning, Jane wakes up and stands upon the ledge of her 18th floor flat in Dubai Marina. Till a few years back, she was everything that would make anyone jealous – beautiful, rich and successful. But then the wheels of time turned. Today, she is miserable and lonely. Would she get over a deception? Can she forgive herself for deserting a friend? Would she ever find true love? Will karma get the better of her or will life give her another chance to correct the wrongs?

Then the Doorbell Rang is about Jane’s roller-coaster journey as she explores the mystical phenomenon called Life.

Cover Review:

Both the title and the cover made me think that this was a mystery novel. Though it most definitely isn't. The cover though intriguing and relating to the storyline, does not fit well with the genre.

Book Review:

Then The Doorbell Rang begins with Jane thinking about jumping off her balcony and killing herself. Then, the story moves through multiple flashbacks in order to explain her reasons for wanting to do so, and her life in general.

The story was well written, well planned and easy to follow despite the multiple flashbacks. Though the flashbacks oftentimes weren't written in the correct tenses, which irked me a lot.

The characters were real, well created and had their own personalities. There were, of course, a lot of characters, but it was easy to keep track of them.

All in all, Then The Doorbell Rang was an entertaining, interesting read and I'm glad I read it!

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Author: Bisco Hatori.

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama.

Rating: 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫💖💖

Blurb:

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the 'Host Club', a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.

Cover Review:

The covers of all the volumes showcase one or the other character, and therefore, I love them all.

Book Review:

For the first review of 2018, I'm reviewing this Manga that I actually finished reading last year (three days ago) but I was too overwhelmed by it to write a coherent review.

All the way from Volume One to around Volume Eight (not really sure because I read them altogether and there wasn't a specific marker) Ouran Host Club seems to be just a romantic comedy with the usual array of characters. The goofy stupid guy (Tamaki), the nerd (Haruhi), the mischievous (the Hitachin twins a.k.a. Hikaru and Kauro), the cute one (Honinozuka), the serious one (Morinozuka) and the evil one (Kyoya).

But later on, I realized that it was so much more. There was heartbreak (I literally read the last few Volumes with watery eyes), there was pain and there was love.

Listen Haruhi.

I'm me before I'm a Suoh.

And I'm proud of that fact.

-Tamaki Suoh.

I realized that Tamaki isn't all that stupid, that there's a lot about him that no one knows, that there's a lot of pain he overcame to become the aloof guy he is now.

I realized the importance of family and at the same time I understood what depending on family too much would lead to.

Ouran Host Club was not just a High school Romantic Comedy, it was real life.

I had already watched and loved the Anime series before reading this, but the Manga is so much better.

Ouran Host Club has definitely left a mark on me, and I'll never ever forget it. And I'm pretty sure I'll be re-reading it again and again and again.

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