THE BOY WHO LOVED (BOOK REVIEW)
BOOK: THE BOY WHO LOVED
AUTHOR: DURJOY DATTA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COUNTRY: INDIA
GENRE: FICTION
PUBLISH DATE: 2017
PUBLICATION: PENGUIN METRO READS
“The Boy Who Loved”
is a fifteen novel of Durjoy Datta. The novel is about Raghu Ganguly. On the
other words, the novel is basically a diary of a
boy where he described how he faced the atrocities that life threw at him; in a
plot that takes you back to 1999-2000.
Raghu is intelligent boy
and is one of the toppers of his class. He is from the middle-class family. He
has an elder brother to whom he looks up to and plans to study in an IIT
college. But in his heart, there is guilt. He has a grief-stricken with the death
of his best-friend, who drowned in the school’s swimming pool. He hasn’t shared
this incident to anyone. Due to this reason, he is away from making friends and
becomes unsocial. But life changes when he meets a Brahmi girl of the same
school and falls in love with her.
Will he express his love towards
her? What happens next? There are twists and turns in the story that every
reader will love the book.
CONCLUSION
To be honest, I love the
book. At the beginning of few pages, I felt little boring but when I continue
the book, I felt excited because of lots of twist and turns. The writer Durjoy
Datta had made the reader hold till the end. More than that, it made curious to
read the second part of the book named “The Boy with A Broken Heart.”
The characters are so
natural. They are like us. Raghu’s parents are up to the mark as well as his
brother. Raghu, the main character holds the readers till the end. He makes what
will happen to him and his family. Overall, there is not one character whom I
can find faults with. They all are well thought of and have a certain depth
about them. More than that, the story
has ended unpredictably and unconventional.
So, I love the book. One
must read the book. I would rate the
book 4/5 for the story and the characters.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Durjoy Datta(born
7 February 1987) is an Indian novelist, screenwriter and entrepreneur. His
screenwrting efforts include, Sadda Haq - My Life, My Choice, Million Dollar
Girl - From Banaras to Paris on Channel V India, Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi on Sony
TV and Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera on Star Plus to his credit.
He served at NIIT Ltd. Siemens AG, and
American Express until he co-founded the publishing house Grapevine India in
September 2011. In 2009, he was recognized as the young achiever by The
Times of India. He was also chosen as one of the two young achievers in the
field of Media and Communications by Whistling Woods International in 2011. His
debut show Sadda Haq - My Life, My Choice won the Youth Show - fiction
category at Zee Gold Awards in 2014 and at Indian Telly Awards in 2014 and 2015.
In 2012, he was one of the recipients of
the Teacher's Achievement Awards. He has also spoken in various TEDx
conferences in colleges across India.
His books are:
- Of Course I Love You..!...Till I Find Someone Better (co-author Maanvi Ahuja) (2008)
- Now That You're Rich! Lets Fall in Love! (co-author Maanvi Ahuja) (2009)
- SHE BROKE UP I DIDN'T!...I Just Kissed Someone Else! (2010)
- Ohh Yes, I'm Single..! And So is My Girlfriend! (co-author Neeti Rustagi) (2010)
- The Backbenchers series (contributor) (first book of the series was published in 2011)
- You Were My Crush!...till you said you love me! (co-author Orvana Ghai) (2011)
- If It's Not Forever...It's Not Love (co-author Nikita Singh) (2012)
- Till The Last Breath... (2012)
- Someone Like You (co-author Nikita Singh) (2013)
- Hold My Hand (2013)
- When Only Love Remains (2014)
- World's worst Best Boyfriend (2015)
- Our Impossible Love (2016).
- The Girl of my Dreams (2016).
- The Boy who Loved (2017)
- The Boy with A Broken Heart (2017)
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