Review of Love is Vodka- A Shot Ain't Enough by Amit Shankar
About Author:
Amit Shankar, An avid music buff and a great exponent of guitar, a
coffee lover, a great reader, great author and many more adjectives to
join in. He has presented society with four gems Flight of the Hilsa,
Chapter Eleven, Love is a Vodka-a shot ain’t Enough, and Café Latte.
Writing Style: 4/5
What is love? This is the universal question as person from every
religion, country, and caste and if we remember alien from PK then
aliens, too must have faced this question in their lifetime at least
once. Here we have one more addition and it’s Moon aka ‘Mon Ami’. A
normal girl whom we would find buried in her gadgets, sipping coffee at
Barista or CCD or flaunting the brands she possess. Moon, too at one
juncture in novel seems of the same clique. As the novel begins, Moon is
shown in a clinic for abortion. There isn’t a slightest hint about the
father of the child in this chapter. As the story ensues, more
information about Moon’s life and her dilemmas is provided to reader.
She is love-child, daughter of very powerful journalist woman and French
Diplomat man. Like every girl she craves for affection and love from
her mother. However Moon is not able to get it from her busy and
powerful mom and the father, who left for France after seeding her
mother with their momentary attraction. However he loves his daughter
and now and then sends her token of love. Moon like other teenagers is
rebellious and full of confusion towards the feeling known as Love. Moon
during her life presented in novel experiences love four times. First
comes Utkarsh, then comes Ashwin Sinha the D who is boyfriend of her
mother. Yup dear reader Moon falls for him. Before that she fantasized
about a guy named Aditya her office mate but this guy has package of surprise
for readers. So better to leave it as a mystery box. Nikhil is Moon’s
online friend and at last comes Gautam, who invokes feeling of true love
in Moon. At last after having many shots of Vodka or say Love she finds
the elixir of life.
What is love? How many time we have fallen in love? Don’t we claim it’s
true, though it’s our fifth time? Many of us have thought once in our
life about this claim. The claim our heart makes every time but none of
us can assure that our first love was a true one or the one with whom we
tied the knots for lifetime. Amit has voiced this confusion of human
beings in his third title ‘Love is Vodka- A Shot Ain’t Enough’. As its
title suggests Love, too is like a Vodka. One shot won’t be enough of
it. The language of novel is awesome. Amit knows very well how to rule
reader’s heart. I have already read three of his titles including this
one and he has been added to my list of ‘all-time favourite reads’. I
love the fact about his characters. He never creates a villain or hero.
Neither a vamp nor heroine. Each and every character created by him is a
normal human being with its own vices and values. His male character
may be handsome, dashing and powerful yet docile when calamity strikes.
My overall rating for this work is 4/5.
Genre: Fiction
Paperback: 203 pages
Publisher: Vitasta Publishing pvt ltd
Language: English
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