For You

Review of "For You"

I thank my fellow author and a dear friend of mine, Jyothi, for reading my book and doing this review.

Jyoti is a terrific writer and had done similar reviews for other books, and author interviews as well.

I request all my readers to read it and share your opinions please.
I respect her opinions on this story  even though I may not agree with all of them.

I would love to hear what you, my dear readers, thought of the story and this review .
Me and Jyoti are waiting eagerly
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Lots of love
Sesi

Review of "For You" by jyothi89

The best of the bunch is the character death right in the first few couple of chapters. The whole story revolves around this character, Vidya. She has got this naive personality (It's alright, such people exist) that sometimes got on my nerves. However, she died a hero's death. She is caring. She is well educated and so as a responsive citizen she tries to do something good for the society. She could have become a great whistleblower and bust the immoral act she discovers that's been happening in hospital she working for, but alas, fate doesn't favor her well. All of this scenario was very well written. It hit the spot and at once I understood that this going to be a great story.

The protagonist of the story, Ajay, who is the fiance of this central and ill- fated character, is in love with someone else. It was confusing for a while to understand what he was actually brooding for- his deceased fiance or for his long lost love. His sincerity towards his job and moral norms demand him to take up the case of his dead fiance in his hands. He is determined enough, and it shown well that he is, to proof that Vidya, his fiance, is murdered and not a suicide victim. And that is how the war between good and evil begins.

The local political preachers are introduced and they are the evildoers, the antagonists responsible for Vidya's death. They are fierce and sinful as they should be. The two brothers and their personality are clearly inspired by many south indian movies. We have seen and met them many times so I, being a south Indian myself, didn't find any freshness in their character. Having said that, the dialogues that are exchanged among these group of people involved in the murder, the scene setting are extremely top-notch. It gives you the vibe, a feeling of how malicious people can sometimes be at their own disposal. They are equally intelligent as that of the protagonist and give tough, vigorous fight that even our dear protagonist had to face many hurdles to move this case forward.

Moving on to Vidya's sister-Amrita. Her character intrigued me the most, because she has a personality that is rare and not something we see in our daily life. She reacts as per the situation, she is impulsive and doesn't mind performing the act of killing. Author has given us as powerful and meaningful reasoning to why she acts as such. She went through a terrible trauma during her adolescent age and that has seemingly given us multi personality disorder kind of a temperament. Although it is later revealed that eventually she gets over it. According to me she didn't. She is still struggling with her confused state of mind she acts all highly of this self sacrifice that seemed only out of the remorse for what she did to her sister in their childhood. Don't take wrong here, as a person Amrita is not likable but her character is developed amazingly as the story progressed. Cheers to the author to create such a complicated character.

The most crucial part of the story and hard work the author had put to write perfectly and genuinely is everything related to the fight for the justice- that is the court scenes. Ajay's determination and his intelligence is highly appreciable. Even after facing unpredictable hurdles, he tries to get through them using his belief in justice. He has many trustworthy friends who can go to any lengths to help him win the case. As each of them are shown having a talent in different areas that he cleverly uses them and gathers evidences and proofs to produce in the court. I, personally, had my mouth hanging throughout this fight in the court. All the chapters involving this particular arc are presented spot-on. The lawyer in the defense of the case is to be applauded as well for his compelling fight against the prosecution.

Romantic scenes in this story are written quite well. For a while it seemed fine. Characters do fall in love with someone they feel their soulmates. It was beautiful to some extent. It might or might not be for the readers sake, but as story progressed it felt uncomfortable and unnecessary. The case is in full swing, and suddenly, like a speed breaker we have the love birds, Ajay and Amrita, who can't seem to keep their hands to themselves. Once they clear their misunderstanding, whenever they find a chance they grope each other around. I repeat my statement- once or twice is fine. Too many times is irritating. I, as a reader know that they are very much in love and they care for each other. I don't want to see what they do and how they do when they are in the bed or in the shower. There are too many chapters where we have these intimate scenes and if it was me, I would cut them down and thus shorten the length of the story.

The best scene they actually had, where I really felt connected is when Ajay discovers his parents death, both of them look into each other eyes, a mute conversation passes between them and they hug. That was one emotional scene I wasn't expecting and it wouldn't have been as effective if the author hadn't written it so well. This is the only scene where I felt they have a real chemistry, real feelings for each other. Everywhere else, they were too horny and lustful (pointing at Ajay's fantasies which he just can't get through enough)

Finally I would like to state my argument why I didn't find Ajay intriguing as much as Amrita's. As a person Ajay is one awesome human being. He is well mannered, obedient, he respects elders and the women he is in love with. He is intelligent and hard working. Also, he is good looking and has well-built personality. He has and is everything that a sane girl would want to see in the man spends her rest of her life. The point is, his character is easy to write because he is perfect. There is no character development because he is already developed. He is not complicated and anyone can write about him because he is every other girl's dream boy.

We are told that he is intelligent and he is the mastermind behind all the plannings but we are not actually seeing him getting involved in these plans. He is nowhere in most of the action scenes. Now this point can be debatable that he is faking his death and so can't be physically present in the scenario but how would I like him or have any opinion on him when I am not seeing him doing anything except giving orders to his friend to commence the plan which is also just told (Dear author, I hope you are getting my point. I have nothing against the Ajay. It's just that I have read about such guys bazillion times) His friends are taking all the risk, his friends are executing the plan. But Ajay is taking the credits in the end. For me to really like a character I need to see him/her present in the scenario (no matter what the result is- if he stands victorious or fails terribly even after showing a tenacious attitude).

The last sentence-'it was time to kill' I commented that I wish to have seen Ajay like this from the beginning of the story. I didn't mean him to literally kill, I meant him to be physically involved in the scenario so that I can see what he is capable of.

Taking the high road, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It's a page-turner. The fight for justice is the main concept and that makes the story a gripping action thriller. Another thing that made me fall in love with the story is the presentation of Indian tradition and cultures. Beautifully shown. The author needs to be given a big standing ovation for respecting her own culture. I highly recommend this story to each and every Indian out there to see and understand the distinct values our families pass them down to the next generation. This is one of the finest stories I've read in the recent times. I would definitely read more from this author.