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Book review: Life is what you make it - is that so?




Author             :  Preeti Shenoy
Book Name     :  Life is what you make it
My Rating       :  3.5 / 5

Reading a book is same like, watching a movie. As soon as you completed it, you always had the urge of speaking about it with some one. I am going to do the same thing. Life is what you make it, is a love story mixed with some motivation and it contain lot of emotions, written by Preeti shenoy.

The story revolves around the character of ankita. She is same like her age group girls. She fell in love with an guy. Later when college seperated them both, They continued their relationship through letters. Every letter sent between them carried lot of love along with the written words. They loved each other so intimately. Of course they also have to manage it from their parents, from not knowing. Everything went good until some point of time. That is where another guy called Abhishek came into the life of ankita. Initially they meet through college cultural festivals. As they are the coordinators of their respective colleges. From the first sight it self abhi started to love ankita. Over a period of time she also fell for him and she decided to hide it from Vaibhav. Their relationship started to flourish like a morning flower. This also went good until some time. A time came in ankita life which changed her life altogether. It was like someone pour a bucket of paint on top of a perfect painting.

All her dreams diminished suddenly at that point. She was thrown to the rock bottom from top. Her slowly constructed life was broken down into pieces. Which almost cannot be fixed together back. Rest of the story deals with, how ankita deal with that life diminishing situation. How she went out from that hell, how she fixed all things back, how her life came back to normal and it is a story mixed with lot of emotions.

Though the story line, of this story was quiet predictable. She managed to make it as a interesting one through her beautiful way of narration. She made the characters realistic through simple names and description of those characters. She gave a perfect ending to the story in epilogue.

Characters:

While speaking about characters in this story, Hmmm.. They are not in huge number. Shenoy makes it quite nice by giving only important characters their name. Some characters, she referred them using only their relationship. Of course Ankita is the protagonist of this story. Entire story revloves around her as planet revolves around sun. Author doesn't focus much about detailing the character but she done what needed. Next Vaibhav and Abhi came as a boyfriends of ankita, they also played a important part in this story.Ankita parents don't have any name, she referred them as father and mother only. Joseph, Suvi and some bench of peoples came as a friends of ankita. And the most important character is Madusudan, he came as a doctor in this story. I don't want to reveal anything beyond this as it would may spoil the story. On the whole, she done a good job in giving her characters their names.

Takeaways:

These are some things which i feel as a take away from this story. No matter how life put you in a difficult situation try to come out of it. Life is hard sometimes, it may be even harder sometimes but try to take it. Accept it and live it. Over a period of time you may eventually come out of it.
Never belittle love. I am not saying this, Abhi grand father said this at one point. Ankita did this thing in her life she faced the severe consequence of that. So don't hurt others and don't play with other feelings. 
The final things is author spoke about one severe mental problem called Bipolar Disorder. I should not speak this, but at the same time i cannot leave it. She described the evil effects of Bipolar disorder, how it occurs, why it occurs, what are the symptoms for it  and most importantly how to overcome it.

Recommended or Not?

I definitely recommend this book but at the same time, i won't say this is the best book i ever read bla bla bla, all those cliche lines. It is a definitely a one time readable. Some things you cannot take up that much easily but over all it is a psoitive story with good ending and message.

If you want me to suggest any good book please comment it. I will try to read it and review it. Have a good day. Keep Reading !!!


Amazon Link:  Life is what you make it amazon link (less cost)




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