Review: It's Got To Be Love

Author: Prashant Kaul.

Genre: Romance. 

Rating: 🍫🍫🍫

Blurb:

Meet Dev Sharma, a young student, who has a unique ability – he has nightmares that unfortunately come true. 

It’s Got to Be Love weaves around Dev and his friend Vikram. Dev is initially smitten with Carol, a college girl, but due to various reasons, they part ways. He meets Vaani through Facebook and a steady friendship develops between them, which soon blossoms into love. However, Vaani turns down Dev, for reasons known only to her. 

Will Dev win back his love? 

Will Carol come into his life again?

 

Join Dev on his emotional roller-coaster ride in Chandigarh, Delhi and Mumbai.

Cover Review: 

The cover is simple and cute, and fits the story well.

Book Review:

It's Got To Be Love started with an interesting premise. A guy whose dreams come true everytime? Such a good plot. But I was really disappointed to know that this particular arc is given more importance in the synopsis than in the story itself. Even after dreaming a number of times, and realising they come true, the character doesn't care too much about why it happens. He's more focused on chasing a girl who's made it clear she's not interested in him.

The characters are well written, though not all of them are likable. At times, I found myself disgusted by the main character, which made me enjoy the story less and less.

The storyline was okay, and I liked that there weren't too many descriptions. But I wished the author had given more importance to the "nightmares coming true" story arc. 

Overall, It's Got To Be Love was okay, but it wasn't the kind of story that you'd remember for too long. 

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Review: Never Been A Loved One

Author: Sivaranjini Ramamurthy.

Genre: General Fiction.

Rating: 🍫🍫🍫

Blurb:

If we are not loved by anyone, it doesn't mean that we will be in the same way forever. One day our life will change, we would be the special person for someone waiting out there, we would be their life, we would be their soul, we would be their breath as we wanted to be, we two halves will become one. But we should move on for that to happen in our life. This is a story of real female protogonist in an unreal story of love, pain, adventure and thrill.

Cover Review:

The cover is pretty generic, and doesn't even have the author's name on it. I'm definitely not a fan. 

Book Review:

Never Been A Loved One starts with the birth of CK—Chandra Kanth—and the death of his mother. His father, unable to bear to be with him, sends him off to live in a boarding school overseas. 

The storyline was actually pretty interesting, and I can say I'd have enjoyed the book if only the narration had been better. I couldn't get into the story at all, because there were no true feelings in it. And even if there were, the author hasn't managed to get them across to me. 

Most of the chapters read like reports, with not many dialogues. As they always tell us in writing class, we're not supposed to 'tell' the readers what's happening. We need to 'show' it to them. That's where this book lacked the most. There was more telling and almost no showing. 

All in all, I believe that the story had potential, but the narration did not.

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