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ADULTING by Neharika Gupta
3.0

If this book is the epitome of 'Adulting', then I think I am doing way better than the three characters of this book. Their life is pretty much surrounded by struggling to look good, feel good, eating disorders, party, love, hate, love, hate and then back to love, finally ends up in friendship. What even?! At least I am good with me surrounded by books, tea and loads of memes. Okay back to the characters, there are three of them -- Ruhi, an editor and a reader. Aisha, lifestyle blogger and a social media manager. And Tejas, a wannabe handsome writer who can't keep up his flirtatious skills intact.
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It started out good defining each of their characters seperately but somewhere they all became one and making the same mistakes, falling for the same person, struggling to get self-confidence again and again. And voila, there's even triangle love story umm-hum. I cannot say the narration of the story was bad but the characters were. as in, they were supposed to be struggling being new adults and they did exactly that, even worse sometimes. You might even mistake them for teenagers. They really need to get their priorities straight.
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You can read it to lighten up your mood and could be read anywhere with a beautiful cover like that. It was fun reading it for me.