Review of As Life Has No Undo

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Author: Abir Mukherjee

“As Life Has No Undo” is a simpatico tale of teenage love and friendship which at times acts humongous when career and ambition become much preferrable than love and friendship.The story basically revolves around two love birds namely Shreeja and Ankita and it tells how ambition and prosperity becomes first priority over relations.

As the back cover says ‘Campus Interviews are around the corner for the final-year students of Burdwan Engineering College.Everyone is busy honing their skills at the last minute except Ankit who wishes to see his parents for the last time.

Ankit, a simple boy and mediocre student from a lower middle class Bengali family has only two aims in his life-to become a computer engineer per his parent’s wish and to spend his entire life with Shreeja,the lady love of his life.Shreeja is preety,ambitious and career oriented.What happens when Debdeep walks into their lives?

Does Ankit have more things to lose than he ever imagined? Have you ever loved someone more than yourself? Have you ever felt the need of a undo button in your life?

This may be your story…’

The thing I like most about this book is it’s title and cover design.First look at the cover and title grabbed my attention.Both the cover and the title draws something different and inviting and is imaginative making reader inquistive as how the author has mould the story relating the title and the cover. After reading the quality title, I was expecting a new and fresh tale.

List of events have been amalgamated to make this reading journey interesting. Although, the story didn’t sound a fresh one,it manages to get reader’s interest who likes to read soft,melody and light teenage love story.Writing style is way simple and any novice reader could go through this novel. Characterization is also done in a well organized way.I could also visualize the story to some extent ,but at some places a smooth flow of the story is lacking.But overall the story is presented well.The story looks like a real one ,and it feels like directly coming from author’s heart and a reader could easily relate from the story.

Although it fails to serve something new to the readers, but is good enough to create a good ambience.The storyline lacks imagination and needs to be implemented in a much better way.At some places,I felt that the story is bit stretched.Some events are descripted which are not really required for the completion of the story.

All in all, this is a book for those who wants to read romantic tale delivering nothing so new but is engaging.If the story would be sprinkled with more flavours then it would really be a treat.

Rating: 3/5

Reviewer: Shweta Kesari

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