The Best Friend by Akash Verma (Book Review)
🍁 “Love is rare, life is strange. Nothing lasts, people change.” - Anonymous
📖 The Best Friend by Akash Verma
🍁 Rating - 3.35 🌟
⚠️ Trigger Warning (Spoiler Alert) – Bully, Rape, Adultery, Abuse, and Molestation
🍁 If you want to enjoy the book then don’t read the blurb of the book. As this book comes under the thriller and mystery genre, that’s why I am not going to disclose more about the story.
📖 Just a short intro - This is the story of two best friends Nakul and Samir who used to be best friends during their school days, though Samir was 3 years younger than Nakul. This story revolves around two different timelines in nearly 30 years of difference. An incident which happened 30 years back changed the lives, perspectives, and pathways completely but a murder which took place after 30 years of that first life-changing event bind them together.
🔹 What happened 30 years back, which is still haunting both of them 30 years after that incident?
🔹 Are they still best friends?
🔹 Or did they become the worst enemy of each other?
🔹 Will they take revenge to come out from the past trauma?
🔹 Or is there another person who is going to conspire against them?
🍁 First of all, the cover will surely catch your attention before reading a single word of this book. The narrations are free to flow and lucid, and also gripping enough. A sure page-turner for them who are new into this genre and also for them who love fast-paced thrillers. Creating multiple short chapters to maintain the same speedy flow of both timeline and incidents is much appreciable. Divided into three segments which start with a catchy quote by George R.R. Martin, George Orwell, and by an anonymous person which will convey that segment’s underneath story. This book is quite thought-provoking too, which points to our beliefs (like - taken for granted) and perspectives. If you love to read dark thrillers, then you should give this book a try.
🍁 Now comes what I felt about the story?
- It was a mixed feeling for me. This book has everything which a thriller should consist of but the author has conveyed most of the storyline in its blurb, which makes it predictable. It had shown great potential in the first half while narrating and connecting the past dots, but in the second half, it had stretched way too much and eventually sidetracked from its thrilling and mysterious flow and makes it like a simple thriller with open end with lacking twists. The author could have focused on the internal inquiry of that murder more in the second half of the story. The author somehow concluded what was going to happen halfway through the story which demolished the thriller part for me partially. It was a light read, it was not a great read as well as not a bad read too. I would love to see more thrillers in the future from the author. Happy Reading.
🍁 QOTD – Tell me what you think about the cover? What do you expect from a dark thriller?
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