Three Times Loser - Akash Verma

Overall I liked the Book. It was a decent read.

A different story line, looked fresh and I wanted to read more, a curiosity developed as three stories in one Novel were coming the way one after the other.

Megha, a home maker in Gurgaon receives a letter.

Mandira, a top MNC executive in New Delhi receives a letter.

Shonali, a Corporate slut in Mumbai receives a letter.

Three unknown people; three different lives; one common thread that binds them together, Alok.

These lines behind the book cover attracted me, I wanted to read, to know what is going to happen.

Author successfully managed to narrate three stories, one after the other; it went on well and entertaining. Characters mentioned in the book are well portrayed and locations are descriptive.

It was entertaining to read the book.


Three different stories makes the reader flow in three different ages and surroundings. Good work done by the Author on that front. 

Now coming on to the “Areas of Improvement” for the book –

There are evident editing errors in the book, those can be turn off for an attentive reader. A character by the name of Happy singh is a cut Surd, it surprises how come the shopkeeper knows that he is a ‘Sardar’ in Delhi Market. To continue the turn off for the readers, the same error was repeated with the pimp on GB road incident.

In the first story, friends go to Delhi, the chapter has no correlation with the story line and I felt it was a interruption in the story. Story was to show the relation of Alok with Megha but I felt that as a barrier for the flowing story. If we think about the reason of Author putting so much efforts to write this chapter would be only to show the way of living of characters involved in the story, which was important. 

Name of “Megha” used in place of “Mandira” – I was surprised for a moment and when I read the line again, I understood, it was an editing error. It was again a turn off a I was all engrossed with the story and all of a sudden the face changed.

Basic errors were also observed like. “Hello” spelled like “Hullo”.

Overall I liked the book and it is a good read.