If you never try, you will never know - Sahil Mehta ~ Book Review (MUST READ!)


4.5 STARS

"... I don't need the whole world to accept me. Just a few should be okay. Even if I can find one person who understands me and my life, and doesn't try to change me. I can live with that person..." 

That's Robin for you. I think in the whole book these few lines actually says it all about who he is as a person/ character.

This book was a giveaway in exchange for an honest review. So this is how I really felt about this book.

There are books you fall for from the page, this is not one. For about 25-30 pages I couldn't quite place the protagonist. He was all over the place. The plot was all over the place. Around that point I realized that's what this is about. Robin, he just don't fit anywhere.
This book revolves around the protagonist, Robin. And there's two things about him that's appealing.
One, he's flawed and he struggles. Two, he struggles, but he doesn't make that struggle the center of his life. There's more to him on every frame and it's interesting how the author have made the narration come by that way.

He battles health issues, his love life and inner drive of passion equally. He fights and fails with himself one too many times, the book ends when he surrenders; when he finally accepts.

And the journey he goes through to reach that point in life is both interesting and inspiring equally. Around half way you'll start to root for him. There are these tiny tidbits of him, his personality, that the author have showcased so beautifully. When he makes a mistake and talks reason to himself. When he takes an impulsive decision, when he oh-so-maturely decides against a goodbye to his roommate, he shines through like the person who sits next to you on your day today life. There's no larger than life image about him, no over dramatic tricks and turns, and his relationship with Aisha and Aisha as a character herself help Robin to come alive as close as he can to reality. And that's exactly the thing with this book that won me over. It felt so real.

To yearn for approval, to long for someone he loves, his denial, decisions, mistakes, struggle, perseverance is what every man has in himself. Robin is poster boy to a modern day guy figuring things out in his early twenties.

Every other character supported Robin's perfectly. Aisha for one, such strong hand morally, emotionally and otherwise. His dad, I guess though he comes so less he is in fact the center point. Robin starts from him and comes a full circle to him. Jordan, Anuj, Karan, Raghav - everybody did their part to perfection.

I was almost 70 percent done when the book gripped me. This is a book you start casual, read light but carry around in mind for a day or two after you finish.

A contemporary read. Worth your time and thought. Do give it a chance.

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