Story-in-Short:
Set in the beautiful city of Udaipur, this love story is filled with everything, jealousy, one sided love and betrayal. Amit gets approval of Preeti, his love and Ishita, who unknowingly helped Amit gets involved with Sankalp. The story moves on with ups and down of college life.
A nicely flowing story takes turn when opulent guy Shekar comes into the picture who is not only rich but intelligent. Unlike fairy tales, the love starts to take a backseat and money takes the charge.
Do dreams shatter when they meet the harsh reality? can waves of love survive having hit by the shore of wealth? Can love still be based on fairy tales where money cannot distract?
Remember its money that is running the world, love is only aa art of life. So what wins and what should win?
In my view:
If school life is enjoyable and memorable, then college life is no less. One has complete liberty to enjoy college life, hang out with friends, attending and throwing parties, etc. College life brings with it several other things like development of feelings, maturity and likings. Feelings for the opposite gender have become ubiquitous now. Author Prashant Shrivastava too gets one such story of college life. Here, I am done reading his book Life’s Like That.
The story revolves around the city of Udaipur and its main characters, Amit, Sankalp, Ishita and Preeti are from the same college. These friends enjoy the college life like there’s no tomorrow. Amit and Preeti fall in love and their story proceeds like any other casual love story. Like every college students even these four characters enjoy their college life to its fullest.
The author has mentioned about the college, the professors and the students there. The thoughts that generate among college teens have been mirrored through the book. Mentions about studies and exams have also found its way in the story.
The story is similar to an ordinary story of a collegian. The story fails to deliver something new and fresh. I know everyone has a story but the manner of delivering it should be appealing. In the initial stage, I was quite pleased with the narration. But it failed to hold my attention as it proceeded further. On top, there was no goal to the story and it went on and on. This was something that I had never expected and it came to me as a surprise.
Even though the cover of the book is simple yet I would call it a suitable one. The narration of the story is simple and dull. The story is comprehensible till the end but its narration turns extremely fragile. The author should have indulged in making the story innovative. The story is a work of fiction and the author should have been creative while framing the story. Also, there are grammatical and spelling errors in the book which could have been avoided.
The regular love-story lovers might love the story, I cannot really predict on it but I am sure that people in search for new and qualitative stories won’t really like it. I am very sure that suggestions forwarded will be considered by the author.
This effort put by him in coming up with his debut novel should be acknowledged.
Book Details:-
| Author: | Prashant V Shrivastava | ||
| Publisher: | Blackbuck Publication | Publication Year: | 2013 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1629517421 | ISBN-10: | 1629517429 |
| No. Of Pages: | 221 | Cover: | Paperback |
| MRP |
Rs 150 |
Buy From: | HomeShop18 Amazon.in  |
[Source: http://suyashscorner.blogspot.in/2014/09/lifes-like-that-by-prashant-shrivastava.html]
My Verdict
My Rating
2
Keeping everything in mind, I would rate the book with 2/5. Congratulations to the author for his debut novel and I wish him all the very best for his future works.
