Vedant Saxena

Book Title: Will You Stay?
Author: Vedant Saxena & Annie Pruthi
Format: Paperback

Book Title:
The title of the book ' Will You Stay? ' is emotional and mysterious.

Book Cover:
The cover image of the book is an alluring picture of an animated couple in an embrace with shades of pink color in the background depicting the book is a love story.

Plot:
The story about a girl and her love. Manya joins the hotel management college in Mussorie against her dad's wishes. Shreyansh or Shrey, who happens to be Manya's senior and the protagonist of the story is a defeated man in life with his past karma and lifeless attitude now. Shrey falls in love with Manya but never in his wildest dreams tries to convey it to her directly, but some connection between the both drags Manya automatically towards him and finally, she blurts out her feelings. But he doesn't. There are instances in Shrey's past life which hold him back to be in himself and a shallow soul.

What are the incidents that made Shrey so cold-hearted? Who is responsible for those incidents? How it affects Manya and Shrey's story to strain?

I laughed. I cried. I fell in love. I learned. I simply love the book. It was indeed beautifully written and it reached out into the depths of my soul. My heart just poured out as I read the last few pages of the book. Such an honest book to stir such great emotions in me.

Some of my favorite lines from the book are:

* This pain is yours to bear alone. Let your soul ache and long for death, let him find you in heaven or hell.

* When you lose someone special who has been the reason for your existence, you also lose a piece of yourself somewhere along with them.

* It's the crazies and the weirdos who make this world interesting.

* There should be some things which you keep hidden from the world.

* Love chooses its victim on its own

and man other lines!

Read the appealing story that will really stand apart in your minds.

What I like:
1. The very mention of IHE Hotel Management College stirred so many memories and I got instantly into the story.
2. Honest and matured writing skills of both the authors is surprising and welcoming.
3. If there is one aspect which makes a reader glued to the story, is the narration.
4. Themes of loneliness, rage, love, depression, vengeance, and possessiveness are beautifully portrayed.
5. The story is written in two narrations, each from the female and the male protagonist that too in third person and first person! This is one of the finest experiments I have read recently.
6. Though we find many characters, the prominent characters leave their mark at every point in the story.
7. I loved how the authors talked about life and easily passed that emotion into the readers' minds.
8. There were some places where I felt the story was losing its essence and to my surprise, a new twist rekindled the spice in the story.
9. Realistic scenarios that happen in a college between juniors and seniors are very well put up.
10. The end of the story though not so cliché types but astonishingly mind-boggling.

What I didn't like:
1. There were few editing errors that I thought must have been not occurred, but for the first book, they can be ignored.
2. At two or three places I found a sentence being repeated, but again it has not affected the story.

Other than the above points, if the length of the story is not a bothering point, there is nothing absolutely to dislike in the book.

Characters:
Shreyansh's character is an enigma.
Manya's character is naive.
Other characters including the college supervisors are very well crafted.

Narration:
Engaging, heartwarming and thoughts wrecking narration is found. It is hard to believe that the book is a debut book of the authors.

Language & Grammar:
An easy and colloquial language with very rich vocabulary is found.

My Final Verdict:
A story about love. A story about life. A story about the experience.

Book Title: 4/5
Book Cover: 3/5
Plot: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Narration: 4/5
Language & Grammar: 4/5
Final Rating: 4/5… (més)