Review
Akshara is always blushed whenever she looks upon a folded paper secretly kept in her cupboard since forty years. Was it a love letter or something else? To find, read this story in Crush 2 by Manvi Singh, I assume the youngest among all the contributory authors to this anthology.
Merits: Manvi Singh has come out with a story which will fill you with nostalgia as your reading progresses. This will remind you the lighter moments of your own life you experience specially at your teenage stage of life.
Lines I liked: "That's how effective his smile was to her, innocent yet tickling every conscious part of her."
Demerits: We can not expect a perfect story by a writer as young as sixteen years old. So despite all the flaws in narration, she deserves kudos. However,a lot of improvement is required in some areas like grammar and sentence formation in general. She must take the help of a senior or an editor before submitting her story in future.
The second drawback of the story is-- it is placed just after A Little Like Love, having the same theme where a mother tells her story to her daughter, ensuing a disinterest in the reader. The editors should've placed it somewhere else in the book and for this Manvi is not responsible.
Another flaw is that this story has been repeated many a times and has become redundant since the release of Hum Apke Hain Kaun and is too common to create an interest in the minds of the readers. Readers want something new!
Ratings: 2/5
It's really difficult for a young girl of sixteen to imagine a story of a woman of fifty plus. I appreciate her efforts and wish all the best for her in future.
Rajeev Pundir
Akshara is always blushed whenever she looks upon a folded paper secretly kept in her cupboard since forty years. Was it a love letter or something else? To find, read this story in Crush 2 by Manvi Singh, I assume the youngest among all the contributory authors to this anthology.
Merits: Manvi Singh has come out with a story which will fill you with nostalgia as your reading progresses. This will remind you the lighter moments of your own life you experience specially at your teenage stage of life.
Lines I liked: "That's how effective his smile was to her, innocent yet tickling every conscious part of her."
Demerits: We can not expect a perfect story by a writer as young as sixteen years old. So despite all the flaws in narration, she deserves kudos. However,a lot of improvement is required in some areas like grammar and sentence formation in general. She must take the help of a senior or an editor before submitting her story in future.
The second drawback of the story is-- it is placed just after A Little Like Love, having the same theme where a mother tells her story to her daughter, ensuing a disinterest in the reader. The editors should've placed it somewhere else in the book and for this Manvi is not responsible.
Another flaw is that this story has been repeated many a times and has become redundant since the release of Hum Apke Hain Kaun and is too common to create an interest in the minds of the readers. Readers want something new!
Ratings: 2/5
It's really difficult for a young girl of sixteen to imagine a story of a woman of fifty plus. I appreciate her efforts and wish all the best for her in future.
Rajeev Pundir
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