#22 Book Review:The Broken Amoretti

Title: The broken amoretti

Author: Sudipto das and Aparajita Dutta

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Pages: 296

Read on: Paperback

Reading time (approx.): 5 hours

My ratings: 3/5

Blurb:

To begin afresh, after her broken marriage, Saoli returns to India and starts living in prembajar at the house her grandfather had bought from Bitasta’s father. While cleaning the house, Saoli comes across an old diary, perhaps belonging to Bitasta’s mother, Panchali. The Diary has a very cryptic poem written in dactylic hexameter, the archaic meter of the ancient Greek epics. Aware of the fact that Sairandhri didn’t let her son, Parush, marry Bitasta, even though sairandhri and bitasta’s mother were best of friends, saoli gets in touch with the reckless parush, recently accused in a high-profile IP theft case in the US. As Parush tells Saoli about his heedless and shattered life, his unrequited love affair with Bitasta, his lifelong hatred for his mother and his topsy-turvy corporate career in the US, Saoli unearths the darkest secrets hidden in the cryptic poem all this long.

Why didn’t Sairandhri want Parush to marry Bitasta? Why was Bitasta the only person she wished to see on her death-bed? Why had she been nothing more than a beautiful but lifeless mural at home? The cryptic poem has the answers. Join Saoli and Parush in their journey to decode the past and discover their real identities, where love can never be chained by stereotypes. It’s time to set love free!

My thoughts:

I had a lot of expectations from this book. I hate to leave a book in the middle, it was really difficult reading this book as by the time I completed 50% of the book I was bored and did not wish to proceed further. The book is supposed to be of mystery genre and by the time you finish the book you have a mystery of your own. 

The storyline chosen in its own is really good but the execution part has been jeopardized in order to make an exciting book. There are a lot of plots running at the same time though they don’t intervene a lot some of them seem irrelevant too. 

The lead characters fail to put an impression on you rather the supporting characters do. 

The cover of the book is pretty apt and gives a glimpse of the story. Though there are negatives the book has a bunch of positives too. Overall an average book.