Dhivya Bavananthi

This is the first book that I have been reading the love story that goes through the decades exploring many things which is really unexpected. It embraces and intrigues when we start reading the first line of the first chapter which states that it begins in 1959. It begins with a strange feeling and at the same time it was quite interesting to get into the time frame of how the author narrated the love story at that time period? Manav and Madhu characters are easily adjustable and understanding each other. They are easily adaptable and manageable with their backgrounds and the love bond was strong in between them in spite of their differences. They both fall in love very easily and last forever throughout their life together until their last breath. The book is not only concentrated on the love part, it also touches some social issues, geographic view, emotional circumstances, mental health, sensitivity and many more. How they met together incidentally, how they fall in love, how they find their souls in each of them were beautifully shown by the author's point of view in the initial chapters. The romance between them in the young age and the bond between them in older age was fantastically explored and that's the speciality of this book that has explicit the true love till the end even in the end of life. The plot was average in the initial, fast paced in the middle, little dragged in between and ended in a well manner. The narrative part is slightly slow and many descriptions could have been avoided. And also in many places the timeline was rushed in order to give the completeness it seems. The author did a great job in representing Alzheimer's disease. The book overall delves into the love, life and destiny into the emotional sense. Language is lucid. The title and the cover is an excellent choice. The characters are well crafted. It will give you an enjoyable read of love and compassion.