Book details
Author – Toffee
Genre – Fiction
Publisher – Srishti Publishers &
Distributors
No of pages – 216
Main characters – Arjun, Anjali
Other characters – Krish
Plot
Arjun &
Anjali are the main characters of the novel. Arjun is a nice guy who is in
search of true love. However, he falls in love thrice but every time something
or other thing goes wrong.
Dejected by
the games of love he moves to Bangalore where he ends up meeting Krish, an irresistible
flirt who turns out to be his mentor guiding right path. Krish helps him understand
women better with his philosophical style.
But then
will he be able to get true love? Will he be able to successful in his career
as a lyrist? Find out in Finding Juliet.
Review
Finding Juliet
has an abrupt storyline with lots of loose ends. The book cover was very
interesting but alas the storyline failed to impress me. The novel is a typical
teen drama where main lead Arjun gets trapped between the fantasy of true love
& the misinterpreted coolness. His first crush to Aditi to his childhood over-caring
friend Anjali, Arjun failed to understand girl’s mentality when it comes to
love. Sometimes it was time that played spoilsport in his life and sometimes
his own incapability to impress girls or understand their feelings made him
unsuccessful in his love stints.
The plot
turns out to be lot of clichéd elements like girls, liquor, drugs, fickle
ambitions of popularity, booze and lot of sex. The story also revolves a lot around
an unnecessary & misinterpreted definition of being cool. The characters
like Aditi, Sakshi, Smita are nothing but are always hungry of sex as if women
find their escape only in physical pleasure. It was completely turn off when
the story introduces chapters that revolve around these characters. The trail
of seduction & lust never ends & the author keeps adding new characters
like Ruchika and Esha.
Erotic sex
escapades keep continue in more than 150 pages of the novel. The story becomes
extremely inconveniencing when our puppy like innocent Arjun had to take sex
lessons from Ruchika.
The biggest
turn off was when the author keeps describing how ‘Sakshi keeps brushing her
soft breasts on Arjun’s back’. Arjun’s life now becomes full of girls where
neither his eyes nor his soul seek for true love as you continue to read
several sex escapades throughout the novel.
Serious
incidents like Arjun’s parents’ death in bomb attack never touch the core of it
in a real emotional manner that should have been. On the other hand, Anjali had
to wait for years to get her true love. In fact, she is the geek who patiently
waits for the main lead to come in her life & never catches a wrong route
unlike Arjun.
Overall,
the storyline failed to impress me as it had many loop holes as well as it
failed to convince me that since when girls have mastered the art of sex. Our main
lead was such an underdog that only girls had to teach him how to have drugs;
how to kiss a girl and how to have a drink or two, that too taught by girls. With
every chapter I felt it was only girls who run the bar late at night or somehow
they know everything about sex & seduction. It was only boys who did not know
anything. It reminded me that life is nothing but ‘Love, Sex & Dhokha’.
Overall, I couldn’t
digest the story but I appreciate the effort of the author that keeping the Indian
sentiments he gives us a happy ending.
The good part
The only breeze
in the story is the characters of Krish & Anjali who keep guiding Arjun
whenever he stumbles across the troubles of his life. The author builds up
faith in us by introducing them that good people do exist on earth.
The writing style & the book
cover
The writing
style is very simple. The book cover is very enticing and I wish the story had
a same effect on me. Title is apt to the storyline but the tagline does not suit
to the main lead of the story.
My Rating 2.5/5
The book
can be recommended to those who enjoy story with sections of eroticism.
About the author
Toffee
loves narrating interesting stories with subtle insights. Through his books, he
wants to share beautiful stories, reach out to people and touch their hearts. Finding
Juliet is his second book, written specially for India’s Generation – Y.
Reach out
to the author at Facebook.
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