BOOK REVIEW (THE GIRL IN THE ROOM 105)

BOOK: THE GIRL IN THE ROOM 105

AUTHOR: CHETAN BHAGAT  

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH 

COUNTRY: INDIA 

GENRE: FICTION 

PUBLISH DATE: 2018

PUBLICATION: WESTLAND, SEATLE

The story is about Keshav and his love story. The story opens with Chetan Bhagat travelling on a plane from Hyderabad to Delhi. Next to him seated is the guy named Keshav Rajpurihot. They get introduced. In the beginning, Chetan Bhagat gets weird about Keshav. Keshav, on the hand, insists to tell the story to the writer. But after an initial boring conversation, Chetan agrees to listen to the story of Keshav.

Keshav meets Zara when Keshav was about to leave IIT. Zara is a beautiful girl from Kashmir. She's an engineering student at Delhi University and after that takes admission in IIT Delhi for Ph.D. Keshav falls in love with her. He falls in love when she was debating in the college in the topic of religion. After debate competition, he contacts Zara and after that, they fell in love. Unfortunately, their love story doesn’t last for long. It’s because Zara’s parents wanted Keshav to accept their religion; i.e. Islam but he doesn’t agree and they have to separate.

After the breakup, he still loves her. He wasn’t able to forget her and wants her back. But on 9th February, his life changes, Keshav receives WhatsApp message from her and Keshav goes to the hostel to wish her in room number 105. He goes with his best friend Saurabh. When he reaches in the room, he calls her many times but she doesn’t respond but after he checks her pulse, he finds out her death. He calls to the police. What happens next? Who killed Zara? 

I loved the novel. It’s interesting to read the novel. Every character is best in his/her own way. I loved the character of Keshav. I found his character cool, crazy and fun. On the other hand, I loved the character of Saurabh. He was wherever Keshav needs.When Keshav gave up on the investigations on Zara, Saurabh insisted Keshav not to give up.  Remaining characters like Raghu and Faiz are good and are up to their level.

After reading ‘Half Girlfriend’ and ‘One Indian Girl,’ I didn’t prefer reading his novels but after watching the trailer of the novel, I couldn’t hold to read the book so I brought the book. Chetan Bhagat had tried his best to come out from his box. After a long period of the time, he gave his best. So, I could rate the book 4/5.