Preeti Shenoy is an author and artist. She believes that life is the biggest teacher. She is an avid blogger whose poetry has also been published. This book is her second published book.
This novel has a female as the main character whose name is Ankita. She is a teenager with lots of courage and positivity. The story starts with the end of the school life of Ankita. Exchange of letters between Ankita and Vaibhav is shown in the earlier phase. As the story moves on we come to know that Ankita’s parents are very strict specially in the terms of guys. They don’t allow boys to mingle with her.
The story then moves to Ankita’s college life. Everything seems to be perfect there. Once she met a guy Abhi in an inter-college competition and fell in love with him. They were from the same city and used to hangout with each-other very frequently. The bond between them was getting stronger day-by-day. Then a time came when their college was about to complete and Ankita got admission in a good MBA college in Mumbai and co-incidently her father got transferred to Mumbai. Everything seemed to be perfect but Abhi got admission in Cochin and asked her to stay in Cochin rather then moving out. Ankita was very serious and refused to stay in Cochin and decided to move to Mumbai. Abhi didn’t like it and so killed himself. Ankita was shocked with this step of Abhi but the only choice she had was to move to Mumbai.
Now in Mumbai, Ankita kept herself busy to overcome Abhi’s memories. She started jogging and discovered her running skills. She did top in her subjects and was a very bright student according to her friends, parents and faculties. One day her parents found all the letters of Vaibhav and Abhi. They got very disappointed with her, scolded her and burnt all the letters. This step of her parents made a very bad impact on her mind, and she got depressed. She started suffering from some mental bipolar disease. Day-by-day her situation was getting worst. Her parents consulted the best doctors for her and ended up with getting her admitted in a sanatorium and there her situations were getting fine.
Initially, you may find this book a typical love story but as the story moves on you find something different. This story is not about love, this story is about determination. It says that you always have so many choices but you have to choose the path which is right for you. This story tells us that only you are responsible for your success as well as for your failure. This story perfectly tells how your determination can defeat your weaknesses. All you have to do is to decide what is good for you and work hard to achieve that. The way Ankita fought with her depression will surely inspire you. The ultimate message is that nothing is too hard to achieve, if you decide to go for it then no one can stop you.
-Dharmik Vasani
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