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Animal Farm

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By George Orwell

When someone says the life you live is basically an exploitation carried by people who feed and shelter you, all that comes to mind is perplexity. But, when Old Major, the Manor Farm’s old boar says it with utmost belief, it is as if the animals in the farm have been deceived all along and it only took for the words of the boar to realize that they are obliged to change it otherwise.

If the point made by Old Major makes true sense, is beyond the book. As George Orwell tried to depict the Russian history with his story, the question of political philosophy lingers all along the book.

After Old Major dies, the other pigs in the farm headed by Snowball, lead the revolution. They wage a war against Mr. Jones and drive him off his farm. Later the pigs, educate the animals in the farm to read and write. But not everyone excel at the skill. They add 7 important rules that animal Farm should abide by.

It is not all roses after it. Mr. Jones returns to claim his farm, but the animals do their best to win the Battle of Cowshed. The plight of the farm later is the core of the Animal Farm.

If the pigs truly are devoted to the upbringing of the animals and hence the farm, or were they far better with Mr. Jones heading the farm.

George, in his attempt to depict Russian Revolution of 1917, tries to portray that there is a huge dismay among the ruled. Does the belief once placed on the leaders stand true, or should it be re-evaluated? How much power does the words in the rules and laws hold; and the stand you can take in your life when the world around you is in chaos!

My thoughts (contains spoilers)

Personally, my thoughts wavered around things like; if at all the animals could read and write just like the pigs, if at all they had the audacity to question them, if at all they had known their role in the farm and how the farm and the pigs could have no meaning if they refused to act as they were demanded to. There were many disturbing thoughts such as, how Boxer’s labor was exploited and how tragic it was, that he could never taste the fruits of his labor.

The power of the image and repeating something strongly and repeatedly, just enough for the new verses to be registered such that you won’t realize you have forgotten the old verses is alarming. The importance of the past and history and the need for it to be carried forward to the future generation and how essential it is for everyone to question things when their hearts says so and not oblige, just because you believe someone. The responsibility of power is so huge, that it could change ages just by the handling of few things, without being realized by the masses.

I really enjoyed the book. Though this book was published in 1945, it is truly a classic. A very short read that renders you with many thoughts and wonders – Animal Farm is worth your time.

Rating: 4.5/5

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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Taylor Jenkins Reid

This is not a review article. It contains spoilers, and this article is focused on my thoughts on the plot and the characters. So, if you are here looking if you should read this book, I would say, go for it, if you like good writing, dramatical romance and elegant, hubris and well-defined characters. Please don’t read this further if you haven’t already read the book or if you don’t want to read any spoilers.

Evelyn Hugo

She is one sophisticated woman. She is strong, courageous, gentle, kind woman, who has meticulously planned her life. On the other hand, she could have been nurtured, helped, accompanied, rather than left all alone. To figure out the world on your own, without any hints and help from anyone is a lot for anyone, let alone a woman in 60’s, whose dreams are too big.

She is lucky that she has a leverage with her beautiful and perfect face, along with a body that men long to bed with and women long to get for themselves, if you describe the world where sexuality is black and white. Since it is not, Evelyn was a dream to everyone who wanted to share their bed with her.

This is how she enters the world, nothing but her beauty. She is not a booksmart girl or a conservative girl. All she had was the urge and the fire in herself to achieve what she wanted and what her mother longer for, before she left the world, leaving young Evelyn Herrera behind. Her personality shaped by her childhood is so nuance and deep.

Taylor didn’t let readers to dwell on her foundation a lot. She made that very short and let Evelyn speak for herself when she describes how her life turned out to be and what were the various impacts of her origin throughout the journey, with an amazing set of words. Bare with me, for all through this article, I am going to speak highly of Taylor’s writing, because it was a book tough enough, to leave it alone, once I had started reading. It’s been so long since I was hooked to a book in this way. I don’t like romance books in general. Though this book is categorized in romance, it is clearly more than that. The impactful story narration by Evelyn leaves you mesmerized with the words and her life.

For me, there are many places where I have felt sad by the world’s structure, mostly by the people inhabiting it.

I’m just saying it’s not so great being loved for something you didn’t do.

Why didn’t Evelyn have friends?

I know Harry was her best friend. But, isn’t it sad to think that the only one friendship she could have was with a homosexual man? Since Evelyn found herself attracted to men and a woman, she labelled herself bisexual after all the years. Why was no one just friends with Evelyn, why did everyone of them had a huge desire for her body over her heart. There is other way of looking, yes, that Evelyn somehow valued herself with the same metric, that she is valuable only because of her beauty and attractiveness. But it was all when she was young and wanted to etch her name in Hollywood. She also learned acting to mark herself; she didn’t bet only her beauty. She did all for her job, which would get her fame. Later during the Vivant photoshoot, we could clearly understand that, it was because of her that she was there and not totally because of her beauty and her body.

When she was starting a family with Harry or after that, why could no one see her for her and not who she was, and just the image that she established for her work and fame. This is fiction, but it is highly likely that an attractive woman could go about her life without having one true friendship without any desire involved. In plain simple words, I was longing for a straight man to be her best friend, to know her completely, to whom she could share all that she was hiding her whole life, without having to sleep with each other.

Don’t get me wrong, Harry is wonderful. He is an amazing friend to Evelyn. Even when he lost the love of his life, he got up, to get his friend the Oscar she has longed for right from the beginning of her career. It’s very hard to be up and about for others when the ship you are in has sunk so deeper, that all you can now see is the darkness around, and somehow you want to find solace in the same, because there is purely nothing under the sunlight that can possibly excite you anymore.

All is fair in love and war.

Yes, life is not fair to anyone and of course, Evelyn is no exception. She got the fame and the money which she wanted when she was 15 and under false pretenses married her first husband. So, yes she didn’t play by the rules of being fair. But when Don Adler hits her and there is a consensus that women, even when they were sort of high in the ladder of the society can’t talk about it to anyone or out the person who did that, is very painful and annoying to take in.

Is it even fair to hit the person when they are in love with that person. It can be labelled as a behavioral pattern that the individual has to address. But, how does a heart heal from the bruises, when it has only been red with the roses that bloomed once. Is it really fair in love? It is tough, it is very tough to be locked up in that situation. Evelyn had to create a name for herself before going separate ways and she has to stay locked up for a while. Even when she finally could not bear with it, and went free, she was partly locked up in a life that others created for her. She got the house and the money which is not a rock-bottom from which she made here before. But, why has she got to struggle? It’s not fair, is it? And it is painful to witness that.

The Evelyn Hugo

After all that she has gone through, losing her best friend and her lover, later her daughter. To live the last days of life, without loved ones’, she was still the courageous Evelyn Hugo. No matter how many times the tabloids name her sexpot, the way she paid less attention to it as time proceeded, creates a longing if and only if, everyone realizes it soon enough. There is not much to gain from a scandal than a few gossips that last for a chit-chat but it creates a loss of lives, true and genuine lives to be led on the same earth as the people who enjoy the scandal.

The notion of false narrative and narrow-mindedness sickens the soul when it knows all this is meaningless when it comes to the D-day.

Why the mankind (I wonder why we have this word to indicate human race, though?!), let me correct, the humans have to care so much about glamor, beauty, fame and gossips, if it ends up hurting people, rather than rejoicing everyone involved. Why are the pillars so high, that once it is reached, it should feel as if a level has been unlocked and why the onlookers should astonish the sheer act of reaching the hill top. Why is it a hill?

These are some of the questions that rose in my mind, after reading the book.

There are a quite a lot of thoughts, which I have not mentioned here. If possible, let me write another one.

I don’t want to give this a rating, it has made me think a lot on many things, a mere number would not signify anything I feel.

I don’t expect anyone else to feel the same about this book, it was purely my thoughts on this book. It may or may not be ground breaking for you. But, happy to know what you feel.

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Book Lovers

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By EMILY HENRY

I haven’t read much of romance novels. But the title of this book makes it very hard to turn away though this is not my usual genre.

Emily points out all of the cliches portrayed by the romance novels, through Nora Stephens, the protagonist and narrator of the story, and tries to put forth a different perspective.

Nora is a career oriented woman, whose boyfriend broke up with her recently, for a woman he met in a small town, which he visited for reasons of business. Nora is a literary agent, and she loves her job. She thinks, the big city lads visit a small town and falls-in-love romances are what’s happening in her life right now, but she is the woman whom the man leaves.

This perspective was very repetitive, but it was quite refreshing that someone acknowledges there is not only a bed of roses, after all in the genre of romance.

Nora meets Charlie Lastra, the editor who refuses to work with once in a lifetime, her client’s work. Charlie and Nora cross each other in their first meet. But, less would they know, their interaction would not cease.

Libby, sister of Nora, who is pregnant with her third child, wants a getaway from all the responsibilities and the stress for a while, especially when she needs to tend to her three children soon. She is an ardent fan of once in a lifetime. She plans a vacation to the sunshine falls, described in her favorite book, with her sister along with a list of experiences that are to be undergone very seriously to have all of the small-town vacation/novel vibe.

Nora misses her sister so much. After their mother’s demise, things have changed certainly, though none of them quite explicitly states it. So, she agrees to the trip, though it doesn’t throw a least bit of excitement upon her.

She bumps across Charlie in the small town, who later confesses that he hails from the town and is here now in order to take upon his family business, since his mother’s hands are full in helping his father after his illness.

Nora and Charlie hit it off, but it is not a smooth ride. They have their own responsibilities and hurdles and each of them are not sure, if their lives would pave way to stay together.

This book is all about the journey of the two souls, with it’s usual chirpiness. It was a pleasant, relaxing read.

Rating: 3.5/5

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Klara and the Sun

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BY KAZUO ISHIGURO

I have liked every Japanese story I have read. But they were only written by Haruki Murakami.

Kazuo Ishiguro won Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 and I have been trying to read one of his books and I had this urge to read a sci-fi novel recently. So, I went ahead and read Klara and the sun.

Klara is an Artificial Friend who is supposed to be companion of children. She is in a shop waiting to be bought and to be a friend to one of the children out there. Klara’s observation skills are remarkable compared to other AFs.

She then becomes AF of a child named Josie. Josie is smart, quirky and she loves Klara for who she is.

Ishiguro has wondered for all his part. When the people come across Klara, they often don’t know how to address her, should they treat her like one of the people, is that right or should she be treated for who she really is, as in a man made device.

Klara is solar-powered, so according to her conscience, everything comes from the sun, the energy for the day, the power to the world. The sun acts as the ultimate being to her, helping in all her needs and she assumes that the same energy is bestowed on all of the people on the earth.

Of course, a human heart is bound to be complex. But it must be limited. Josie’s heart may well resemble a strange house with rooms inside rooms.

Josie has a friend Rick. Rick lives beside her house. A couple of fifteen years old, hanging out, and they are very good friends, in fact they would like to have more than friendship when they grow up and have a world to conquer. Josie falls sick often, which her mother often points out, maybe because Josie was not lifted, it still makes her life more difficult. The term lifted, was not deliberately explained anywhere and I assumed it meant genetically modified at a young age, to increase a kid’s intelligence, immunity and overall state.

Josie, like other kids studies in her oblong, and the kids get together once in a while, in the form of a social interaction party, in order to make peer communication better when all of them go off to college.

This is the extent of the world that Ishiguro tries to portray. But since, Klara is the protagonist, we get to have an interesting peek of what’s on her mind, which is a wonderful speculative imagination that the author has displayed.

Klara wonders often, where she stays, more often like the confusion of the guests. Whether should she excel in what she was built to do and act as an excellent AF by a set of protocols or try to understand what humans think and feel in order to act as the perfect AF for Josie. She was exceptional in being Josie’s AF, with all the efforts she could pitch in.

All in all, it got pretty interesting when I was midway through the book. It’s all about questions and non stopping wonders of the world of humans.

Rating: 4/5

Norwegian Wood

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By HARUKI MURAKAMI

REVIEW AND THOUGHTS

This is one of the most beautiful books I have read. Before proceeding, there are very few works in the world that disturb you to the core. For me, it was Franz Kafka’s novels and the short stories of Haruki Murakami Men without Women. Hence, I wanted to read another novel of his. Norwegian Wood is a Japanese novel, but I read its English translation.

This page is going to be somewhat more than a review. It is going to be a culmination of my thoughts on this book and its characters.

The story is a nostalgia pondered by Toru Watanabe. In the 60s, Toru is a drama student with no idea of why he is doing the course and what he is about to do later. It is very relatable, especially when we are in our 20s, it is very easy to not know what we really want out of our life. And Toru was in the same position, except for his love for certain American classics, which earned him one of his friends, Nagasawa, who unlike Toru, very clear of what he wants to be. He is a diplomacy student and has an easy-going approach to life. Nagasawa’s girlfriend Hatsumi is very considerate but their needs from life differ.

To me, there are 3 important women in Toru’s life. Naoko, Midori, Reiko.

Naoko is Kizuki’s girlfriend. Toru was best friends with Kizuki. The three practically had only each other for most part of their life. Naoko’s sister committed suicide and it affected her a lot. But things were very bleak later too. Naoko is a very gentle person. At a very early age, when she is about to enter into the whole life ahead, the deaths did really affect her.

When something so shocking happens or when you have lost someone dear to you, words choke and eventually it feels like the words no more have any meaning to them; and question as to, what is the purpose of speaking them. We turn mute to the entire world. There is nothing to be conveyed. The world around seems so calm when there is a whole chaos happening in the heart and it feels like nature is being an imposter.

Sunday evenings, that Naoko and Toru spend together, walking, after Kizuki’s death feels the same to Naoko and, Toru can never find the right word to make Naoko open up.

The relationship between them changes on Naoko’s birthday. For most of the part, Naoko seeks help in a sanatorium.

It’s because I think of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

Midori is Toru’s classmate in his course. When they spend time together, a beautiful friendship springs between them. Midori is a vivid young woman. She is a straight-forward and a warm hearted person. She has a boyfriend who doesn’t understand who she is and most of the times, a quite narrow minded one. She takes care of her father Kobayashi, along with her sister. They run a bookstore together and her life takes a turn. There is so much Midori has got to say to the world and she found the right pair of ears in Toru.

Personally, I adored Midori. She was a very beautiful person on the face of the earth. And I have never felt this warmth towards a fictional character before.

Toru and Midori have a very special friendship, in which Toru sometimes acts hesitant, but Midori knows exactly what she wants and what she deserves.

Reiko is the woman who stays with Naoko in the sanatorium and who helps Toru and Naoko’s relationship stay intact, when Naoko is going through her difficult times and Toru can’t understand as well as he thought he had.

I can’t describe enough of this beautiful novel. It is very well written, with the right words and the amazing emotions it kindles. Haruki Murakami, sure has a way with the words.

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

The relationships among the people are the purest ones. Very gentle, pure, and humane. It was like looking into a whole other world, where everyone has their own set of problems, yet like an angel on the earth, their face to the other, always remain so gentle and warm.

I am very fortunate to get this out of this book and I wish the same for anyone who is about to read it. Hope I have not hyped it more. Please do give it a read without expectations.

Rating: 4.8/5

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Meet me at the Cupcake Cafe

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By Jenny Colgan

This book was a birthday gift to me. I love food. I love desserts. I love cupcakes. When the title contains cupcake, it is quite fascinating to know what this book has to say to me. And as suspected, I loved this book.

Issy had a job, though it was dull and boring, it paid her bills and let her have weekends with friends. Though the intimate relationship with Graeme, her boss, is best kept as a secret in the workplace, she had peace of mind that, she had a boyfriend.

Issy Randall, after she is made redundant (she was let off as part of layoffs carried out) by the Property Developers of London, she worries a lot about finding next job in the economy nearing recession. She is in her early thirties. Her beloved grandpa, who once owned 3 bakeries, had to sell all of them to pay the clinic that takes care of him.

She loved the 5 am smell of freshly baked bread of Grandpa Joe’s bakery when she was a child. She grew fond of baking eventually. Her cupcakes are always welcomed by her friends, people at her regular bus stop to work and her colleagues. When she is in search for her next job, something dawns on her and she sets out to sell her cupcakes for her living. Her heart goes for it and of course, she knows the intricacies involved in starting a business, let alone a slightly posh cafe in the locality.

Something in her pushes her to go forward. She gets support of her friends and works so hard to make it happen. But Graeme dares to make an entrance, just to laugh at her.

The rest of the book is about how does Issy Randall handles her life and the business.

It makes sense when your friends help you, but it is really touching when people you rarely know help you at times, when you doubt yourselves. When you could see a person smile because of you, it is the bliss of a lifetime. You feel pretty good, contented and happy for them. This book sure has lots of these moments.

It is very common to find a work of fiction all about romance these days, be it a book or a movie. I loved how Jenny concentrated on them lesser, while paying attention to Issy, her heart, thoughts and state of being, as it should be.

Jenny Colgen made it so light-hearted. The recipes at the start of the chapters, which Grandpa Joe writes to Issy, were tried and tested by Jenny herself.

It was a funny journey all along, with oh my god moments, and a hearty laugh here and there. I enjoyed the whole time being at the Cupcake Cafe 😉.

It’s hurting my brain to try to bring this amazing book into a genre. I think, so did Goodreads.

If you are looking for a fiction, that is light, funny, moving and focused on a woman in her early thirties, there you go, meet me at the Cupcake Cafe.

Rating: 4.8/5

The Bell Jar

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By Sylvia Plath

I must say, I usually find the books to read from various sources. Sometimes, it is the goodreads, or it is the instagram, or it is my friends’ recommendation. This book’s inspiration was interestingly drawn from a series called Sex Education. I like one of the characters in the series, Maeve. She is one of those people who read a lot of books that instill feministic and philosophical thoughts and she is so drawn to the literary side. So, one of the books she talks about was the Bell Jar.

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Anyway, the last book that I read was Darius the great deserves better. Darius was diagnosed with depression, and at this time of the world, it is no more a taboo or a sickness, it is understood and treated like any other disease with dignity, except in few cultures. And to my surprise, the Bell Jar was also about depression (because I didn’t know it at first), but it portrays a totally different light on the topic.

When everyone was talking how even if the Bell Jar was written in 1963, it is relatable till date, I had my suspicions. I thought, it might be so exciting for some and it would not be that great at this time.

But I was completely surprised how every word Sylvia writes are so true and relatable. She has written her first novel based on her own life. She also suffered from depression and she died by suicide. While all this is very sad on the outlook, Sylvia makes us feel every bit of it with her words. She shows the pain she suffered with the beautiful writing she has got.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

Esther Greenword is doing her internship with a New York fashion magazine. She is an academically excellent student, she goes on receiving scholarships after scholarships. All she knows is to study hard and the narrative that life will be better, once you do that. She tries and works hard, but when she realises the bell jar pressing on her, she feels this emptiness, that Sylvia makes sure the reader understands.

There are certain societal norms. She lives by them very diligently without her seriously trying. When she finally scrutinizes all the things about her life, do they make any sense? Is it ever going to be really making sense?

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

How she views her dating life to be pointless and all the confusions she has about being a partner to a man do make a lot of sense, even till date. Some things about the plight of women, sadly make sense even after half a century.

The fig tree passage, yes, when I read it for the first time, I just loved it. And the same way, everyone who I came across was so impressed by it, that it, on its own stands as an extraordinary writing piece. The way Sylvia compares life with a simple tree, every choice of the word, is truly remarkable. 

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Bell Jar is a must-read book, for so many reasons.

  1. The true take on the depression and how it really makes the mind clueless and suffocating, inspite of the awareness.
  2. The life of a woman, when all she does is trying to make a living for herself and all she can do is toll hard, yet to be noticed barely, especially when in 1963.
  3. How some questions are never really answered and sometimes the ignorance makes sense, because the answers seldom make sense.
  4. Just to admire Sylvia’s writing and nothing else.

It is a timeless novel. Please let me know what you think of it.

Rating: 4.9/5

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Darius the Great Deserves Better

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By Adib Khorram

This is the sequel to Darius the Great is not okay.

After Darius returns from Iran, his life seems to have witnessed a lot of changes. He is now friends with his soccer team back in the school. Chip, who used to be bullying or be with Trent when he is bullying Darius is also one of his friends.

Darius now has a boyfriend and he has got a haircut too!

Meanwhile, the book revolves around Darius’ sister Laleh, for whom school is unusually tough after her return from Iran. She is being bullied and passed on racist remarks from her childhood friends and none really understands except Darius, who tries to be of help whenever he could. I like this about Darius. He is one good brother as everyone keeps on hinting at.

Meanwhile, Darius is still in touch with Sohrab through Skype calls and Sohrab’s life has been a rollercoaster since his dad passed away. Sometimes, he talks about Darius suspecting that he might be depressed too, but he doesn’t really open up too much.

Darius is now an intern at his favorite tea shop. It seems like he is in a place where he has everything he ever wanted. Landon has been quite understanding and he connects with Dad, but who unfortunately stays away for his job to meet the grown expenses since their return from Iran.

Darius is doing good, but it only seems like for a while. And along the way, he sees all his loved ones going through their tough times and sometimes he feels he can’t be of any help to them and regards himself as selfish.

The character of Darius from being a wishing teenager to a responsible teenager who looks upon his own decision and doubts if he is making them all right is something that I found wholesome while going through the pages.

It is a justified sequel.

Rating: 4.5/5

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Darius the great is not okay

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By Adib Khorram

This book is first of a series of 2 books.

It is about a teen named Darius Kellner, he is half Persian and half American. He suffers from clinical depression, a genetic one, passed from his father, Stephen Kellner. Speaking of it, though the son and dad can have this unique understanding of each other because what they are going through, it proves otherwise. Darius doesn’t have a very good relationship with his father.

Darius always becomes the ‘target’ of a bully named Trent Bolger, who makes sure passes some racist comment every time he walks past Darius. Though it irritates Darius and hurts him, he makes them get to him lesser by naming Trent and his friends with a comical nomenclature, which I love, soulless minions of orthodoxy.

When you can laugh about it, things seem less daunting.

And that is exactly how Darius copes with it, though it is not okay. He has a younger sister Laleh, who he loves a lot. Things change, when their family gets to know that Shirin’s father in Iran is suffering from an illness. The parents decide to take the children to see their grandparents in their native for the first time.

Though Darius talks to his grandparents in Skype, he is kind of overwhelmed and also he is not fluent in Farsi unlike his sister, which makes it easier for her to quickly connect with their relatives. Darius gets his first friend Sohrab in Iran. The road is not always smooth though for Darius.

I could go on and on about how this book highlights so many different aspects.

Be it the mentions of how depression makes you witness the world so differently everyday, be it the not knowing where do I fit in part, struggles with being a Fractional Persian, be it the beautiful friendship that blooms like a rose with its own thorns, be it the familial relationships and its complexities.

I loved how the author could portray all the beautiful things in very few pages and an etching story.

Oh yes, I did forget to mention Darius’s love for tea, which we share!

This was a totally new perspective I witnessed.

Rating: 4.8/5

Read the review of the sequel, Darius the Great deserves better

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ALL RHODES LEAD HERE

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BY MARIANA ZAPATA

It truly was an amazing journey for Aurora as well as me. When Aurora De La Torre breaks up with her popular boyfriend Kaden, she goes back to finding and doing things for herself and for her mom. The things which would have made her mom so proud.

The book tore me up at a particular instant.

Mariana justified every word of her writing. It feels like I had travelled with Aurora all along, all through her breakup, her return to her hometown, her hikes and her discoveries on so many good and bad stuffs.

I can literally quote everything in this book and admire Mariana for bringing them up. But I am biased and I am just going to quote one of my favorite set of words.

I think I’m more scared of the people I care about dying than I am of myself.

It takes a lot of heart to go on and take up a new life, after believing someone was going to be always by the side and they won’t be anymore. Incase of Aurora, it was a whopping fourteen years. The enormous heartbreaks she had to go through to accept what was happening and the courage with which she went through all the mess they made up with her parting can never be truly expressed.

With all the bits and pieces she had, aiming to have something for herself in her thirties, with a good heart, Aurora was truly a light in the dark sky. And there are many more warm sources of light in the same sky we live under is a warm feeling that the book leaves you with. Be it, Rhodes, Amos, Clara, Jackie, Mr. Nez, Walter and I am pretty sure I am not even listing all the names.

I was hesitant about this book, since it was kind of bigger than the books I usually read. And now, I am glad I did and it will always have a special place in my heart.

All Rhodes Lead here had an account of everything, resiliency after a break up, coping with grief, parenting and all the unjustifiable regrets we have of life.

It takes you to the world slowly that you can sit back relaxedly and allow it do the wonders. I would recommend reading this book even if you are not a fan of this genre (romance, fiction)

My rating: 4.9/5

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