Sunset by the River by Sameer Saxena - A romantic thriller ( Book Review)

 

🍁 “Our most trusted ally and our dangerous enemy are both the same—our own imagination.”

🍁 QOTD - Tell me about a superstition you believe !

📖 Sunset by the River by Sameer Saxena

🍁 Rating - 4.5 🌟

📖 This is a love story of Ayaan Vaidya, a business development engineer and Tripti Mehta, a budding Engineer and a wannabe civil servant. The story started when Ayaan's colleague and best friend Monisha arranged a product launching seminar for Ayaan at her farewell event in her college, where he made friendship with Tripti. Tripti is an introvert due to his strict parents basically for his Police father. As time passes by Ayaan becomes one of her close friends whom she can tell anything and everything. Just like every romantic story and real life stupid Ayaan idiotically proposed to her without knowing more about her and her past, and the same as every story thing started falling apart. Later Ayaan transferred to Japan for some time for his company's work. That's when something unusual happened which made him come back to India. If you want to know what happened next, then you have to read this one.

⚠️ Mild Spoiler Alert - If you are reading this book currently or want to give this a read, then stop reading this review from this point.

🍁 'Sunset by the River' is Sameer Saxena's debut novel. Not gonna lie, when I was 30% into this book, I felt this book was going to be as usual boring and daily soap type, but Saxena has proved me wrong. This is not a romantic genre completely. It's a romantic thriller and has everything which makes it a gripping one from the halfway point of the book. The first halfway might make you bored, but trust me that reading is worth it. Saxena has done great research on medical conditions as well as superstitions which he has acknowledged at the end. I loved the amalgamation of Superstitions with Science completely, as many parts of our country and many highly educated still believe in such things. And I truly loved the narrations and storytelling alongside the perfect character developments, which makes it thoroughly intriguing enough and will keep you at the edge. A sure page turner with its inner theme. I wanted to give it a full 5🌟 but I have seen a few mistakes and editing errors, alongside some stretched portions which made me bored sometimes. But as a whole I loved it anyway, looking forward to reading more from Saxena on such unusual centralized themes. 

Happy Reading.