Book: Unns – The Captivation
Author: Sapan Saxena
Publisher: Inspire India Publishers
Release: March 18th 2016
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3/5
Unns, the 2nd stage of love, the stage of infatuation and captivation often makes us fool. In Urdu, there are seven stages of love. Hub (stage of attraction), Unns (stage of infatuation), Ishq (stage of actually falling in love), Aqeedat (stage of respect), Ibadat (stage of worship), Junoon (stage of obsession), and Maut (stage of death). I think I have lived all the first four stages of love and after reading this novel I am really glad that I have never reached any of the last three stages.
Atharva Rathod and Meher Qasim paid high prices at different stages of their lives for love. They were once high-school sweethearts. Meher being the ambitious one and obedient daughter of her parents, ended the relationship even before they could realize at which stage of the love they were. Heartbroken Atharva tried to move on for next 15 years and became a successful senior agent of RAW, the primary foreign intelligence agency of India. 15 years later they met again in Germany while Atharva was leading an important mission and Atharva’s life turned upside down. Was it a coincidence or planned?
They met again after 12 years, this time in the suburbs of Belmont. While they faced each other again, they had to face their own demons, emotions, and weaknesses for the finality. What happens at the end readers should find out. I recommend it for young adults.
Frankly speaking, I was never so confused about deciding whether I really liked or disliked a novel before. I liked the plot, the characters, and the narration. But still, there were a lot of things I didn’t like at all. The story could have been a brilliant thriller but fails miserably. Following are the points which ruined my experience of reading a good book.
- Text needs lots of editing. The grammar mistakes are really annoying.
- It was really difficult to keep track of the abrupt transitions between past, present and different time periods in the same chapters.
- A trained RAW agent can’t be such careless or naive to give access to his laptop which contains such secret and crucial information of the country’s security to anyone else.
- What Atharva was trying to find out for months, was found by others within few hours after the mission fails. That is absurd.
- It was actually Dev’s idea to involve Meher in the mission. But he never takes the responsibility when the mission fails. Why?
The book cover, binding, and paper quality are really good.
“I received a copy from Writersmelon in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.”
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