Author : Prashant Shrivastava
‘Life’s Like That’ is a story of college friends,their friendship,crush,love-life and the expenditures they made during hangouts.It is a short length novel which revolves around college life and some love -bites.
As the back cover says ‘Set in the beautiful city of Udaipur, this love story is filled with everything, jealousy, one sided love and betrayal. Amit gets approval of Preeti, his love and Ishita, who unknowingly helped Amit gets involved with Sankalp. The story moves on with ups and down of college life. A nicely flowing story takes turn when opulent guy Shekar comes into the picture who is not
only rich but intelligent. Unlike fairy tales, the love starts to take a backseat and money takes the charge.Do dreams shatter when they meet the harsh reality? can waves of love survive having hit by
the shore of wealth? can love still be based on fairy tales where money cannot distract? Remember its money that is running the world,
love is only Art of life. So what wins and what should win?’
A story of love birds namely Sankalp-Ishita,Amit-Preeti and Rahul-Niharika which seemed more like infatuation than love but termed as love. Initially,I felt that the story is mainly focussed on Sankalp and Ishita’s love story.But, later I discovered that the protagonist of the story are Amit and Preeti. Somehow it failed to make a clear impact on readers.The plot is simple and ordinary and presented in a facile way. Initially,I was a bit confused about characterization ,but later the story is only limited to few characters and thus vanished the confusion.
The story is one of the usual ones you would find any other Indian novel. Precisely,no story to put your mind into,it just seemed like some episodes of daily tv soap serials which keeps on continuing raising some new issues in between.Unnecessary descriptions and series of such events which is need not to be described made this book lewd sometimes. Storyline needs to be imaginative as this book serves an outdated story.
Instead of focussing on three love stories which are nothing so different,it would be better if only one story should be focussed and presented well.In order to devour three stories,the real flavor is missing from the story.Some twists and turns to the story requires badly as it needs to be spiced up atleast to some extent which I felt is lacking. The story couldn’t serve up to the mark.Also,the story fails to create an ambience required for a good environment.I couldn’t relate completely to the story as the story jumps off in between presenting some unnecessary descriptions.One more and vital drawback of the book is grammatical errors which is not avoidable.
It is no doubt a light-read pack written in utter simple language. If you are looking for a new or spicy story,then this is not your cup of tea,but,if you want to reminisce your college life with hot-spot dates,then this could help you to some extent. A book nice for novice readers who doesn’t need to adjust with complexities in book,they can simply go through it with comfort.
I wish author good luck for his next venture and wish him to come up with a spicy and fresh tale.
Rating : 2/5
Reviewer : Shweta Kesari