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Monday, August 10, 2009

The Zoya Factor- A Review

I have finished the book two days ago but I am not out of my bad mood yet. This book by Anuja Chauhan makes fun of the art of book writing itself. There has to be a mix of crisp and elegnat words with slangs appearing once in a while. However, Zoya factor relies on slangs that runs through one entire line and sometimes dare to break that limit too.
The character potrayed are so weak and fickle that they fail to grab your attention. They contradict their own set of beliefs that you keep forgetting the initial nature of the character potrayed.
The reader can easily loose interest at any point of time unless he have the patience and ability to handle the low quality of literature served to him. The overdose of foul language (though necessary at times) bores you and looses the punch which authors like Shobha Dey delivers at crucial points.
The author in her first attempt at writing, has ignored a few basic fundamentals that every good novel have, it's the lack of details. The details about each character, the details about the crucial matches that team India plays and many more scenarios where she could have mesmerized the readers with her words are missing.
In short, this story is about a girl who is considered lucky for her country's cricket team and this becomes the hottest talking point of the cricketing community which has its side-effects on her private life which remain no more private. In the end, I will leave it up to reader's own wish to risk 300 odd rupees and a week's times on that book. In my humble opinion, it's a must-not-read kind of book.

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