www.marryAghost.com – Book Review

Author: Abhimanyu Jha

Paperback: 252 pages

Publisher: Srishti Publications (7th August 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9382665196

ISBN-13: 9789382665199

About The Book:

You Cannot go without me! I Know you are tired, but come, This is the way. – Rumi

Maahi has lost her way. The tired, desperate young soul who remembers nothing except dying next to sea waves and a strange golden-haired man.

Veeru is a young, happy-go-lucky entrepreneur who creates WWW.Marry A Ghost.Com and gets pulled into an adventure when Maahi registers as the first ghost.

Asmita Burman is an old, half-blind professor who finds Maahi inexplicably, can hear and see ghosts and knows way too much about them. And then there’s DMello, a five-hundred-year-old ghost of a Portuguese nobleman also searching for Maahi, mysteriously appearing and disappearing.

Who will help Maahi get freedom by finding her golden-haired beloved in fourteen days before she gets trapped on earth, may be forever? Joint the age-old battle between good and evil-a race between time, freedom and love that will eventually put the entire wold in danger.

About The Author:

Abhimanyu writes about men and women falling in love, and then running into people who wouldn’t let them live happily ever after. While also running TalentBridge, he plans to write more books on romance and saving the world. Till the world needs such saving.

Abhimanyu is also an edu/techpreneur and one of the co-founders and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the company TalentBridge Technologies (www.talentbridge.co.in ). His writing on personality development and recruitment skills can be found on the website iLearningOn.com (www.ilearningon.com ) along with multiple online applications – that he had a significant role in designing – to help people test themselves on those skills to know where they stand and then practice to make themselves better. His company has also developed a number of cloud based applications (the iHiring platform) to help recruiters assess job applicants in 8 different ways and hire online at the click of just a few buttons (www.ihiringonline.com )

My Take:

Well, Let’s start from the cover which I found the least impressive. The title of the book was intriguing and the blurb seemed to make book look a bit different from the rest. Whole novel follows a very simple language which makes it an easy read. There aren’t many characters in the book, just a bunch of them which restricts the story at times as not much is revealed about them.

The story is taken forward by continuous viewpoints of both male and female protagonist. The story seems to leap in the starting to hook the reader but then drags very slowly. Not much happen over a few chapters and one might be tempted to skip a few pages even. Double viewpoints have given way to repetitive narration which might bore the reader. It could have been avoided. Instead double viewpoints could have been taken to increase the pace of the story which otherwise is slow. Beware, the end will leave you surprised, may be shocked even, because you may not have thought of it even as the rarest of the possibilities. Apart from the shock the end will leave you with so many questions, ofcourse without the answers (but you will surely know why the story was slow in between 😛 ).

Words defined the feelings quite well and the reader could feel the pain of the characters. Helplessness of the ghost are perfectly described. Feelings of the male protagonist could have been elaborate considering it was written by a male author. There are moments which make you smile and some make you wonder if such things do happen! If one believes what all facts are there about ghosts are true then feel yourself enlightened on the topic.

In the end the thing that has stayed with me hours after putting down the book is the song- Aaj jaane ki zidd na karo…..

My Rating:

3/5

And now I’ll leave you with a few lines from the book.

“I know you are an excellent coder, but everything in the world is not a variable.”

“Because dark chocolate is so… so bitter. I guess I liked its bitterness, Tasted the way I feel.”

“I know that I am more like a human mind than anything else; like a mind, I can be wherever I want to be if I know where exactly I want to be.”

“We think we have all the time in the world, isn’t it? But sometimes we don’t. Things go wrong suddenly. Sometimes…”

“Ask any girl. If we are so chatty about something, we either love it or hate it.”

“You know, sanity is so rotten sometimes.”

“We are good at wishing our castles, aren’t we? Wishing our walls and gates and stairs and rooms and towers and turrets till a few words are enough to blow them away into thin air like wisps of smoke.”

“Castles… how swift we are at making them, and how swiftly do they vanish.”