BOOK TITLE: Pink
Champagne
ISBN: 978-1-927826-05-8
AUTHOR: Madhuri
Iyer
GENRE: Fiction
- Indirom
NUMBER OF PAGES: 80
FORMAT: Digital
SERIES / STANDALONE: Standalone
REVIEW BY: Dhivya
Balaji
HOW I GOT THIS BOOK: I
thank Naheed Hassan of Indireads for giving us a chance to review this book!
SUMMARY:
When
rookie banker Tanya Sen heads out to New York City to start her dream job, she
bumps into her dream guy instead! But suave and sophisticated Arjun Mehta is
already taken – engaged, and soon-to-be-married, to socialite Lily. Her claws
dig deep, and she isn’t planning on letting go anytime soon.
Enter Indu Ben, Arjun’s widowed mother, who has a premonition that Tanya, not Lily, is the one who will become her bahu. Arjun is forced, against his will, to help Tanya out. He introduces her to new friends, rental condos and pink champagne.
With the wedding looming up ahead, Arjun finds himself spending way too much time with an attractive young lady who is not his fiancée. Caught between commitment and attraction, will businessman Arjun follow his head or his heart?
Enter Indu Ben, Arjun’s widowed mother, who has a premonition that Tanya, not Lily, is the one who will become her bahu. Arjun is forced, against his will, to help Tanya out. He introduces her to new friends, rental condos and pink champagne.
With the wedding looming up ahead, Arjun finds himself spending way too much time with an attractive young lady who is not his fiancée. Caught between commitment and attraction, will businessman Arjun follow his head or his heart?
REVIEW:
A short Indirom Novella seemed like
a good break from the rather heavy books that are currently on my reading list.
And with special thanks to Naheed of Indireads, I started reading the first of
the many titles that he sent to us for review. Pink Champagne seemed quite the
‘bubbly’ (pun intended) sort of book that could break the serious readers’
block. And break, it did!
A young girl from India, Tanya, goes
to New York from Toronto to work for a bank. On her way to the Big Apple, (she
travels in a bus) she gets down and the usual slip, miss and fall occur. She is
saved from total embarrassment by the grace of one Greek Adonis, Arjun. She
feels red because of her fall and his amusement correspondingly.
Hoping to forget the one off incident,
she moves to her new job. It was then that she realises that she has his phone.
On their second meeting (to give back the phone of course) Tanya scolds
herself. She seems to be falling for him romantically. It is then that she
learns that he is engaged to be married. In what surely looks like a heartbreak
romance, she pines for him and he for her. His overbearing fiancée seems a far
cry from the silent, soft natured Tanya.
In the big city as two friends, they
meet each other often and finally, they realise the inevitable and they fall in
love with each other. Whether Tanya ends up with him or his best friend Karsh,
who also happens to be her moral support forms the rest of the story.
The plot of the story is ‘man meets
woman’ romance. And the characters are breezy, fun and casual. The story is
short but includes all the essential details. The writing is descriptive and
clear with simple, short words. The whole book is a breezy read and there are
no poignant or sad moments. Go for this novella if you like a light romance
with a happy ending.
WHAT I LIKED: The
writing style, the choice of words.
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER: A
little more depth to the story would have been better.
VERDICT: Expect
a short breezy romance novella with a happy ending, and you will get your expectations
fulfilled.
RATING: 4/5
(It meets your expectations from a simple romance novella)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Madhuri Iyer is an award-winning
advertising copywriter with a 25-year career in the advertising profession in
Mumbai, Delhi, Muscat, Dubai, and Toronto. She has worked for agencies like FCB
Ulka, Everest Saatchi, McCaan, and Lowe Lintas. Madhuri is a Partner at Indus
Eye, a media and advertising consultancy based in Toronto and enjoys her work
as a creative consultant.
She has also holds a certificate in
screenplay writing from Toronto. Subsequently, Madhuri chose to extend her
writing skills into the publishing space by editing a series of four health and
fitness books for the Times of India group and Penguin India.
Pink Champagne, developed exclusively
for Indireads, is her first work of fiction. Another two book print deal is on
the cards with an established Indian publishing house
EDITIONS AVAILABLE: Digital
PRICE: Rs.
89 for Kindle edition
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