This book looked like a dream of someone, as if someone desperately wanted to share his mind and heart. It is a small and short read with 150 pages. This book caught my attention as for the first time I saw a page from the editor as “Foreword”, strange! However after reading that my expectations caught fire and I expected to read a finely polished piece after a long time.
I will start with the story line, as complemented by the Title itself, it is a love story and differently it is a teen’s story. More talking like infatuation stages. Flow did not go well and kept on fluctuating between a hidden feeling and studies. Author tried his level best but homework was not done at all. It looked like all of a sudden someone decided to pick up a notepad and a pen and started to write. It took a whole lot of efforts to make the grip, Story line was good and there was a lot of scope to narrate it with a gripping impact but didn’t happen till the end. Author was more inclined towards expressing what he felt but it doesn’t work always as readers expect a grip and mind blocking while reading anything. If I as a reader I am not attached with something, I will start turning pages and it will end up nowhere but to look for a better option to quench my reading thirst. Author should have read some books to get an idea of how to frame the narration to maintain grip over the reader’s mind.
Now I will speak about the Editor. The first page of the book states, Edited by Shreya Chatterjee in bold. It happened for the first time that I saw name of the editor given so much of importance. It is good as editors are not getting their much deserved fame anywhere in the publishing industry. However, when the name is given as a highlight, it should be justified. There are mind boggling editing errors evident.
I had to read this book as if I was checking a test paper. Let’s have a look at some of the basic errors –
1. When I started answering, I saw everyone turning back to look at me, as I was standing on the last bench
2. That was the first time I saw her. After several years, it was really difficult for me to find out, which was the first time I saw her? One day when I was feeling peaceful and had a lot of time at hand. I thought about this for the whole day. And after analyzing all my available memories at last I concluded this moment as the one in which I saw her for the first time
3. Hence to avoid confusions, I always adhered to Syed in the school, and I simply went to the places he went. I even went to the toilet only if he went there. This was the first reason why we became friends
4. I liked in playing with him very much, though mostly he hit the ball, and I chased it
5. Fter seeing the movie….. (I believe it was “After” and not “Fter”)
6. I heard something disturbing my sleepit was my father (Have no idea to what “sleepit” is)
7. After that in the every exam, I got an increased progress in my report card
8. Mother in law is going to afford to you
9. I saved it into my pocket
10. We would eat something for our stomach
11. It might because their bank balance came down
These are just some examples, editor missed to correct what she was supposed to be in this book.
Overall this book needed a lot of work before getting published.
I am still wondering who went wrong, the Author, the Editor or the Publisher.
