An
accident, a girl in coma, a boy in search of a girl whom he loved,
Probal Mazumdar’s debut novel Key to My Soul has a familiar
premise. The protagonist Siddharth is in his school when he meets the
love of his life Hazel. One day Hazel suddenly disappears only to
resurface after seventeen years, this time immobile in a vegetable
state. What she has left behind for him are letters, which will
reveal some deep hidden secrets.
The
book makes a promising beginning. If you grew up in the eighties and
the nineties, you will perfectly relate to his writings. The feeling
of nostalgia is the USP of this book. The free-flowing language
makes you to yearn for more. But unfortunately the novel falters and
doesn’t live up to expectations. The letters neither gel with the
narrative nor do they evoke emotions. The novel drags in the second
half. There are couple of spelling mistakes in the book. Read this
novel only if you like reading mushy love stories which defy logic.
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