July 28, 2020:
This book is out in the world today and I can’t be happier..more people can read this beauty now! I haven’t felt so happy reading a contemporary in a while.
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Rowan and Neil are rivals who are always trying to compete each other but the final day school battle changes many things between them.
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➸ If you love rivals-to-lovers trope, then do not miss this. It was amazing to see the shift in the arcs of both the characters and the way they became friends. They realise they have more in common than they know.
➸ Rowan loves romance novels and I appreciate the author to bring up this subject as a main point in this book. People often look upon those who read romance books, by saying that those are trash. Why we need to be ‘guilty’ about anything that we read for ‘pleasure’?
➸ Both Rowan and Neil are Jewish and we get to see some important discussion about what it means to be Jewish and how people look at you differently.
➸ The whole story is set in a span of 24 hrs and frankly, I love such stories. It never felt like it was rushed and it was great to see how things can be changed within a day

Elizabeth Acevedo did it again. Bow to the queen!
She is just phenomenal. Full review to come soon.

Is sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

The Color Purple is a historical fiction written in form of letters, which shows the life of two African-American sisters, Celie and Nettie. Celie was raped by her own father and bored two children before being married to an older man. Her marriage was also troublesome. She never got to know what the true love is.

When a women named Shug comes to her life, she starts to see things differently. She was awed by the bravery, modernity and directness of Shug and we see an amazing character growth of Celie. On the other hand, Nettie, ran from her home and luck brought her to Africa where she worked as a missionary with a family.

The writing style of Alice Walker will keep you hooked till the end as we see the struggles of African-American women, how men had all the authority and women were the mere pieces of sex object. When they see women like Shug, who dared to oppose them, they used to spread bad notions about such women. Women were only for doing household work and all the field work while men were simply proving their ‘manhood’.

This book will definitely play with your emotions. You would want to fight for women like Celie. It would inspire you to be strong and fight like Shug and Sofia. It is one of the most challenged book ever and was challenged for offensive language and being sexually explicit, which I think was all necessary for the story to portray the kind of emotions it did. If you haven’t read this book yet, I would highly recommend this. This is definitely not an easy read but definitely a worthy one.

It is not a classic for no reason.

18th July, 2020: OMG I finished it and it is probably my favourite Sandhya Menon book? The fat rep, the romance, the story.. everything was so good. Detailed review to come soon.

15th July, 2020: A little late, but I have finally started it. And oh boy, this is super entertaining and I literally had multiple laughter fits

Actual Rating: 4.5
Full review on: FLIPPING THROUGH THE PAGES

I am such a sucker for cute romances and this book was no less. You must have heard how this book is all about insta-love and how people usually hate that. I agree. I too hate insta-loves in most of the cases, but this book doesn’t fall into that case, for me. Despite insta-love-y storyline, in the beginning, I loved it because it was more than that. I loved both Daniel and Natasha as the characters and I loved Nicola Yoon’s writing, though it was my first ever read of hers.

The whole story takes place in ONE day so you can’t argue with the insta-love plot, can you? I mean there are always limitations to writing a story in such a short period of time. I usually don’t understand how two people meet for the first time and fall in love instantly when they are quite different? But believe me, this story was so perfectly written that you would actually ignore the insta-love plot and would start rooting for Daniel and Natasha