Book Review: Hold My Hand by Durjoy Dutta

Reading about all the books by Durjoy Dutta, I think that soon I will have to make a separate book shelf  for the books penned by him. I have read almost every book by Durjoy and with his ninth books titled ‘Hold My Hand’, I am looking forward to his yet another created story with a love story revolving around the love birds in his titled novel. This time, I wish like his all other novels, which are sex-centered, it would have more of the story and less about sex.

Published by one of the leading publications in India, Penguin Metro Reads, who is known for their quality of service. The cover of the book is quite impressive and as you will turn up its pages, you will feel good in reading with good quality of paper and proceeding further, let me tell you about the story and its plot in an elaborate way. 

The book is about a story of a nerd boy, Deep, who is an utter book worm, a bibliophile or can say an obsessed man for books. This mumma’s boy gets a chance to go out of India’s boundaries and land in Hong Kong for his internship and there begins his love story with Ahana, a stunningly beautiful but a blind girl.

The narrator has narrated well as the character of the male protagonist, Deep and captures the audience with its monologue and making a whole of the first part really likeable read. However, the writer has described the story taking it down to the drains. The story moves back and forth with the narration by Ahana and Deep.

There are two things that I found the only flaws, which have made the story a little less interesting and unreal and that include the character of Ahana, which is portrayed in a way that it looks a bit unrealistic and there is a lack of depth in the story. Apart from un-real-ness of one of the two key characters; the story doesn’t have any depth. But it’s a read-and-throw thing after all, with no literary value. Truly a filmy type of story, which makes it more evident as a Bollywood flick by rendering the eyesight of Ahana at the end.

The author, otherwise writes very well, but this ninth novel by him has fallen into the category where the story has no substance, which makes it unrealistic like a fairy tale.

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