Title: Scarred
For Life, Healed ForeverAuthor: Ashwati Menon
Publisher: Gargi Publishers
Page Count: 126
My Rating: 3/5
Blurb: What are these strange visions? What is
wrong in her head? Why does she get strange feelings before incidents happen?
Nishtha Vaidya is a survivor of a terrible natural calamity. Not only does she live on with survivor's guilt, her mind is still there, on the ill-fated day and she could never come out of it. Just when things are beginning to settle slowly in the safe and cozy life in a vibrant lifestyle of Gujarat - Nishtha is getting strange visions and headaches. Life is taking her back two years in time and she finds she is running around the state, saving different and unknown lives from mortal peril.
Will Nishtha get answers to these mind boggling questions? Will Nishtha be able to pay tribute to her friends whom she lost? Has her untold love story got anything to do with it at all? Will Nishtha Ever unburden herself?
Nishtha Vaidya is a survivor of a terrible natural calamity. Not only does she live on with survivor's guilt, her mind is still there, on the ill-fated day and she could never come out of it. Just when things are beginning to settle slowly in the safe and cozy life in a vibrant lifestyle of Gujarat - Nishtha is getting strange visions and headaches. Life is taking her back two years in time and she finds she is running around the state, saving different and unknown lives from mortal peril.
Will Nishtha get answers to these mind boggling questions? Will Nishtha be able to pay tribute to her friends whom she lost? Has her untold love story got anything to do with it at all? Will Nishtha Ever unburden herself?
Verdict: ‘Scarred
for life, Healed Forever’ is the first book by Ashwati Menon. This is an
unusual story with an equally unusual ending.
The first thing that catches
the eye of the author is the cover, which is quite efficiently designed. The
illusion image of
a girl on the front will raise questions among the readers. But I think the
cover doesn't
go
with the story and could have been designed in a different way. The blurb was
good and gives a good outline of the story. Overall the first impression was
good but doesn't
say much about the content.
This story is of a Nishtha Vaidya,
a girl from Ahmedabad, fighting with her super natural powers. Nishtha had a
happy and caring family and a good paying job thanks to her academic skills.
After going to Australia for the Foreign Student Exchange Programme, she faced
Tsunami and became the only Indian to survive. That incident changed everything
in her life. She lost her friends and the love of her life. Nishtha realized that she
had got some super natural power and sometimes can see what is going to happen next. How
she manages to cope up with this power and uses it to save lives? How these
visions made her life tough? And how she came out of this trauma? That is the
book all about.
The author has chosen a different story for her debut novel
which is commendable but the execution is not up to the mark. The narrating
style was simple and was unable to keep the reader engaged. There are scenes
which could have been described in a better way. The grammatical errors were
dropping the speed of the book.
The characterization was good.
Almost every characters has
a different role to play in the story. There is one character in the story
which I think could
have been
ignored by the author
that is of Dnyaneshwar uncle. One thing where the author needs
to work is on the description of the characters. Apart from the main protagonist and the
few main characters all most all characters had lacked the lime light.
The author had tried to pen down
something different than the regular but the framing of the plot could have
been better. I like those frequent jumping of the scenes from present to past
and the end. The author has
the capability of describing scenes and could do a way lot better than this.
Overall a nice brave attempt by a new author.
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