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Cross Your Heart, Take My Name
by Novoneel Chakraborty
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Very rarely I stumble across a commercial fiction which in turn reminds me why I stopped reading it in the first place. I cannot remember the last time I read something likeable from this genre and this one was no different. Although I was a bit hesitant to read this, I kept telling myself that surely a book by someone who is considered as India's popular thriller writer must be fairly good. But soon into the novel, I realised that there wasn't much to look forward to. Cross Your Heart, Take My Name falls under psychological thriller, a genre that Indian writers barely use. The writing is decent and it reinforced the fact that perhaps this novel will be different from the other commercial fictions I have read in the past. But halfway through the novel, I had to trudge through the story, something that I do not enjoy doing.
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Garv is seemingly comfortable in his marriage with Nihira but long-distance takes a toll on him. He has no complaints apart from the fact that he has now settled into an ordinary marriage in which they do not have anything new to discover about each other. It is then that he meets Yahvi, a woman who's mysterious and alluring all at once. While Nihira lives and works in Bengaluru, Garv grows close to Yahvi with the two of them meeting up frequently over cups of coffee. And soon, Garv finds himself falling in love with Yahvi and considers leaving Nihira. The lover's plan of eloping comes to a quick end when Yahvi is found dead and Garv is thrown into a pit of darkness. It is when he tries to unearth details of her death that he realises that Yahvi was a complete stranger to him. Rest of the story navigates through Garv who tries to put all the pieces together to solve his lover's death. The book is fast-paced but unfortunately had more than a handful of loopholes. Not only was the protagonist unimpressive, there were many other characters who didn't seem to add anything to the story. The plot would have worked brilliantly given the execution part was done well but it all ended rather messily.
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Rating : 1.2/5.
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Very rarely I stumble across a commercial fiction which in turn reminds me why I stopped reading it in the first place. I cannot remember the last time I read something likeable from this genre and this one was no different. Although I was a bit hesitant to read this, I kept telling myself that surely a book by someone who is considered as India's popular thriller writer must be fairly good. But soon into the novel, I realised that there wasn't much to look forward to. Cross Your Heart, Take My Name falls under psychological thriller, a genre that Indian writers barely use. The writing is decent and it reinforced the fact that perhaps this novel will be different from the other commercial fictions I have read in the past. But halfway through the novel, I had to trudge through the story, something that I do not enjoy doing.
.
Garv is seemingly comfortable in his marriage with Nihira but long-distance takes a toll on him. He has no complaints apart from the fact that he has now settled into an ordinary marriage in which they do not have anything new to discover about each other. It is then that he meets Yahvi, a woman who's mysterious and alluring all at once. While Nihira lives and works in Bengaluru, Garv grows close to Yahvi with the two of them meeting up frequently over cups of coffee. And soon, Garv finds himself falling in love with Yahvi and considers leaving Nihira. The lover's plan of eloping comes to a quick end when Yahvi is found dead and Garv is thrown into a pit of darkness. It is when he tries to unearth details of her death that he realises that Yahvi was a complete stranger to him. Rest of the story navigates through Garv who tries to put all the pieces together to solve his lover's death. The book is fast-paced but unfortunately had more than a handful of loopholes. Not only was the protagonist unimpressive, there were many other characters who didn't seem to add anything to the story. The plot would have worked brilliantly given the execution part was done well but it all ended rather messily.
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Rating : 1.2/5.