I am not a fan of books which are
published only as e-books and do not have paperback version of them because you
always must experience them digitally and can never hold them or get your hands
upon them while cleaning your shelves and flashing back into the memories you
had about the book. But whenever a book has a great content, despite it being
an e-book, it ends up staying in my memory more than many paperbacks that I
have read in last one decade. The recent book that I have just finished while
getting back from office in local train on my big screen mobile is debutante,
Zoe M’s “Call Me Saaya”.
When I had first read the name of
this book, I had taken it up as some horror stuff because the word “Saaya” is
most prominently used in such references only. But this book is more based upon
romance genre and family drama. While reading the book, I regularly felt as if
I am reading some script of a Bollywood movie which has every masala in it
which ensures that the couple are falling in love with each other and then
getting away and again coming together again to fall apart. And then in climax
multiple dramas happening and, in the end, something happens which makes you
clap, whistle alongwith feeling emotional about the turmoil the characters have
gone to experience and be with each other. Call Me Saaya is exactly this stuff.
The book is based in Rajasthan
and authoress ensures that she keeps the touch of the same. Basically, in the
first half of the book when the couple are going places together, the way
localities is described is wonderful. The characterization is so wonderfully
done in the story that you can relate with each of the characters and
understand their mindset. Even the characters like Rana Singh who enters in the
last quarter of the book leaves their mark. Shamsher and Saaya are very nicely
portrayed as two different personalities completely. The twist and turns that
come in the end of the first half of the book is a magical moment for the
readers which changes the complete pace of the book. And after that, the book
becomes more interesting as you want to know what happens with the characters
and will they forgive each other.
Talking about the drawbacks, the
USP of this book is the dramatical representation of scenes which sounds like a
scene directly out from Bollywood movie. But there are few scenes which are too
overdone and starts becoming irritating after a point of time. The book becomes
quite predictable in the 2nd half and it needed little twists and
turns even there. Even the other relationship portrayal of Shamsher that has
been included in the 2nd half could have been kept as suspense even
for the readers because revealing the secret to the readers does not make it
any exciting thereafter.
Overall, the book took me some
4.5 hours to finish and is a great rollercoaster ride. I give this book 3.5
stars out of 5.
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Thanks.
ABHILASH RUHELA!!!
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