Love on the Rocks: A book Review

First things first, I was super excited to be offered to do a book review by  Blogadda (the largest online community of bloggers) as I am a voracious reader and literally gobble up all kinds of good literature!!!

The book is Love on the Rocks by Ismita Tandon Dhanker , published by Penguin as part of their 'metro reads' Novel series.

It was an excited me who received the courier sent by the blogadda team and tore it open to promptly start reading!!!

Opening the book, I found a sweet note from the blogadda team and the first page personally signed by the authorn with the lovely quote - "The heart knows love across space and time"

Before i go on to review the book, let me make it clear that I am no expert of English literature, this review is just my personal opinion after reading the book!!

The Review starts!!!!

Plot: Newly Wed Sancha is excited about sailing with her husband, an officer in the merchant navy, on board the Sea Hyena. But Chief Officer Aaron Andrews is keeping a secret from his wife - a month before she arrived, the chief cook was found dead in the meat locker, his death ruled an accident. First Engineer Harsh Castillo is enamoured of his best friend’s Aaron’s bride, but that’s the lleast of his problems. The demons he’s battling have a stronger pull on him.

When money is stolen from the captain’s safe, the inquisitive Sancha makes a game of finding the thief. What she finds, instead, is a murder. With the evidence implicating her husband, Sancha is at a cross roads – should she tell Raghav Shridhar, the investigating officer, about the money or should she give her secretive husband benefit of the doubt?

The story starts with a prologue, relating the childhood of the main protagonist Aaron Andrews giving an indication of a dark childhood which may lead to a suspicious and scarred personality. The story is carried forward through narration by different characters of the story, Sancha the wife, First Engineer Harsh Castillo, Raghav Shridhar the investigating officer, Aaron himself and some other key characters. It makes the story interesting and also very intriguing to read as the reader gets to see perspectives of each character. The twists and turns of the story come at a gradual pace and the whodunit at the end is a surprise, though its also a bit confusing when its being narrated. However, there is happily ever after, though not the sugary fairytale one but a very believable one.

My conclusion: Its a good novel to curl up on a lazy weekend and get drowned in.  The language  used by the author  is easy and the flow of the story is  fluid to keep one engrossed till the end!!!

This review is a part of the Book Reviews Program at BlogAdda.com