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Book Review: Finding Juliet

'Finding Juliet' is the second book by our author here, Mr. Toffee. It's target audience is exclusively Gen-Y Indians. It's blurb gives the readers fair bit of idea about what's going to be in front of them and how it's gonna all end. Still, if you opt for it, you are going to cling to it in order to find out its ending just like you have been doing to all your Bollywood titles throughout your lives. It's fairly predictable and only its nice sketches of characters keep you hooked till the very end. Character development and smart first-person narrative are thus two high points of this book for me.

Its protagonist, Arjun wants to find one true love in his life. There is nothing wrong with him and it might have to do something with today's generation of girls or the changing atmosphere (read SWOT) of our society that such guys aren't deemed very likable. So here is a serious issue and more of a mental block for Arjun to address and he really doesn't have anyone to take solace into for his problems except his childhood friend, Anjali. After three serious heartbreaks, even Anjali couldn't stop him from leaving Hyderabad, for good, for Bengluru. He meets Krish there and just like his superhero namesake, he is a provider of all the solutions if you only care to ask him. Arjun, with his good fortune, does exactly that and Krish changes him from being an innocuous presence to someone carrying quite an aura. Our Arjun now becomes a lyricist and attains so much success that now there are queues of girls waiting for him everywhere. I never understand how that happens in any Indian author books or in a Bollywood flick but it does happen at a really alarming rate. This phenomenon just happens to escape my neighborhood. But it's all about Arjun and sadly, he still doesn't get a clue of his true love but he does find something else keeping him occupied: LUST.

So that's where it all ends, you have to figure out that by reading this book till finish line.

As I have mentioned above, character development and witty dialogues are this book's key strengths but there are some subplots as well that are quite interesting. Then there is always this challenge of presenting an old wine in a new bottle and I applaud Mr. Toffee for he succeeds handsomely in doing that. Shrishti Publishers always launches its titles in a charming way with good cover designs and superior editing and I have found none of their titles boring for sake of repetition. So in technical departments, this book is definitely a winner.

Still if it hadn't been for a stale plot, I would have gone over above my actual rating of this book which is 3.0/5.0.

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