Tuesday, March 1, 2016

My Best Friend's Boyfriend- Story by Kajal N Lalwani in Crush 2 published by Authors' Ink Publications

REVIEW:

A triangular story of crush! This is the last story but not the least than anyone. A sea of emotions of two best friends; Riya and Soumya who die for the same boy Rohan. To solve the puzzle, unlock the eighteenth box and find the answer contained into it.

Merits:
As the whole book revolves around the teenage-crush, so as this story. Facebook friendship changing into crush and the crush changes into the love so naturally that the reader identifies with the story instantly. Whatever happens, happens in sheer innocence without designs or malicious intentions. And that's the strength of this story.

Lines I liked:
"In the war of friendship and crush, it's always friendship that wins over crush."
Incidentally this is the tagline of the story which says more than what meets the eye--the sacrifice in friendship.

Demerits:
Kajal has to work upon sentence formation as right now it's too mechanical in nature. Moreover, stories should have some turns and twists which are missing. Yes, there're stories like this- linear and straight, they do not arouse much interest in the reader to read more. The subplot of assignment submission is unnecessarily long and creates disinterest.
Hence, I would like to suggest--Try to say more in less words.

Ratings: 3/5

There's no doubt that Kajal has tried her best in bringing out this story. Certainly, she's talented and has great potential to be an accomplished writer in future. Moreover, one can not please all the readers and reviewers, so keep going honing your craft to excellence.

Rajeev Pundir

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