As the title says “This is not your story”, In this book, Savi Sharma has done a very good job in justifying the title of the book. She has tried to carve a story around the very basic law of the universe that “If we will not take the responsibility of our lives then the circumstances or other people will take it”. The story is all about not accepting the Life story written under the circumstances and taking an initiative to write our own story that we want. Keep reading this review to know more.
Characters:-
The Story revolves around 4 main characters. Shaurya, Kasturi, Miraya, and Anubhav. Except for Miraya all three are from Jaipur.
Shaurya has a dream of pursuing a career in filmmaking and wants to go to Mumbai to do the same but due to lack of courage, confidence and family support, he can’t do that. He is good in academics so his parents want him to become a CA and spend his life being on the safe side.
Kasturi is Shaurya’s neighbor as well as the crush. She is a very confident and courageous girl. They both have feelings for each other. But they don’t disclose it anticipating the opposite opinion of each other.
Then there is another girl Miraya. She is Kasturi’s cousin from Mumbai; a confident interior designer, dedicated to her work and always chasing her passion and dreams. She had been through a relationship leading to a married life that didn’t work out and ended up in divorce. She has come to Kasturi’s house for renovating the interior of her house. No doubt, Miraya is my favorite character among all of them. I felt good by reading the way she moved on in her life even after her divorce without stopping any moment on the way to her dreams.
Anubhav dreams of building a business empire of his own. He has got a very supportive family who supports him to chase his dream. He goes to Bangalore to pursue his studies and after that, he starts a company whose success touches the sky in few years. After few years, his parents come to Bangalore to meet him and they both die in a car accident. Anubhav gets shattered and develops a habit of drinking alcohol and smoking. Due to this state of him, he gets fired from his own company for the good of the company. After some time he comes back to Jaipur and meets rest of the characters in a very strange manner.
Yes, This Book is Relatable!
I feel that this book is easily relatable to real life scenarios. I have met people who have the talent and ability but they don’t have the courage to take the stand for their dream. Shaurya is also just like those people. I honestly try to motivate people when I see them in situations like this.
Likewise, we all have seen people like Anubhav who falls in the habit of drinking and all the expectations from life tends to diminish when they lose someone close to them. They don’t feel like living this life anymore and want to end it up.
My favorite part of this book was when Shaurya sits at the bench at the railway station and a stranger comes and he encourages him to follow his dream but at that time he didn’t have the courage to board that train. And with the commendable writing skills, Savi has made the reader feel as if the train was not leaving the station but Shaurya’s life was leaving him.
The thing that I didn’t like:
The only one thing that I didn’t like about this book is that the author failed to keep the climax until the end. The reader can understand the whole plot just after the middle half of the book which decreases the enthusiasm a bit to read further. When I came across the climax in the mid of the book and I saw that still about half of the book is still unread, I thought as the climax would be different from what I am thinking. But unfortunately, at the end, it was the same what I thought. This disappointed me a bit.
Language:
The language used in the book is very simple and good. Anyone can read and comprehend the material at a very good pace and hence can complete the book in a few hours reading.
I would not rate it so highly as Savi has already done an awesome work in her first book “Everyone has a story”. As this is the second book from Savi Sharma, so before reading this book, I had very high expectations from this book because of her previous work. But yes, I believe that she will work better in her upcoming books.
Recommendation:-
Yes, I would recommend this book to people. I found it a good read. And it also doesn’t have any adult stuff as such so you can share this book with anyone of any age group without thinking twice and without offending their feelings.
This is a perfect book for the beginners and intermediates in reading.