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Chetan Bhagat slapped me!!!!!


Well, well, well. Happy new year 2025 to everyone who's reading this. I wish y'all a very happy and prosperous year ahead with all smiles and health. Wanted to end 2024 with this blog, but it had to wait an year to get posted, (sorry if it's lame). This blog is all about praise for Chetan Bhagat along with my experience of reading his novel; The Girl in Room 105. 

So I started reading this book with a prejudice as I've read his Half Girlfriend which was sweet romantic drama. I thought I was into yet another romantic drama but that was the first time he ducked and landed a blow on my face! OOOOOPSS. The Heroine got murdereddddddddd!!!! This is not romance, this is murder investigation! I don't know how but Chetan just gives me some "cheap-desi" feel, apologies if i've offended any and yet his books are the easiest to read, perhaps i could be the cheap-desi guy. 

Long story short, Keshav; Protagonist and his ex-girlfriend Zara Lone(Heroine). He couldn't get over her after their breakup which happened to be 3 years before, however he still calls/texts/stalks her after getting drunk every night just to find her dead on her birthday. Who killed her? Why would anyone kill Zara; the perfect girl-  where everyone adores her. The wanna be- character and yet have darker secrets. This story wasn't just a mere novel for me, I strangely had some connection with it. A life lesson sorta connection. It deeply somehow resonated personal secrets and no one is perfect. I don't wanna spoil much, more about his writing. 

The story and sub-story with non-linear narration was indeed near to perfection and yes with a very very much working humour and subtle bromance between Keshav and Saurabh (Keshav's best friend), it was perfect! The twists and the story flow was super convincing and the way he directs the audience was just purely brilliant. 'Scene leading to another scene' and 'plot revealing a previous plot', these two were seamless and you'd never feel the transition that have occurred while reading. Perhaps that's why he's the biggest author in the country. 

This is gonna be one of my favourite, until some other cheap-desi novel of his punches me again on my face. And please bollywood, don't make a film based on this book. I know you'll mess up with a lot of, lottttssssss of story that it has, i don't wanna name then as it'll be a spoiler but those who have read would know what I'm referring to. So please bw, chup chaap ke bait.

2024 turned out to be a great year indeed, despite ups and downs as always, it made me a reader and writer(so called-). I'm shockingly surprised by myself that I've read 8 books and wrote 8 blogs in the past 6 months. Cheers to 2025, for more happy reading and happy writing! See you soon with a sequel or a spinoff of The Girl in Room 105; One Arranged M̶a̶r̶r̶i̶a̶g̶e̶  Murder. 

With love
ΛV

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