I had really really high expectations with this book and I am solely responsible for shattering my own expectations. Shouldn’t have kept them too high. Honestly, looking at the cover of the book and it’s very topical title, I “assumed” it would be about millennials and their futile attempt in grappling with “Adulting”, but when I read the blurb I was a little disheartened that it was, after all, a love-triangle based adult fiction. A genre I am really finicky about. I kept my hopes intact only to realize, mid-way, I did not like the book.
The book revolves around the lives of three major characters – Ruhi, a young thriving editor of her own publishing house, Tejas, an author making his debut in Ruhi’s publishing house and a social media manager Aisha. The story outlines the day-to-day activities in a publishing house featuring alongside the relationship between Ruhi-Tejas later Tejas-Aisha. The author has tried so hard to fit in topical issues like – millennial struggling to keep up with the social media expectations, insecurity about one’s own body and parent-daughter relationship etc., but fails miserably.
These are the only three major characters and honestly, I found Ruhi’s character spineless and 2D while the other two were no better. The story has no direction at all and after a point you just feel like disowning the book. Adulting has become a popular term and is used frequently these days, but tagging the word to insecure, foolish, confused adults doesn’t make sense at all.