When
I picked up the book SOAR Success Over Adversity Reigns I thought it
was some motivational or business management book. But it wasn’t.
It is a novel about three friends. ( I can hear you people laugh.)
Uday,
Rajasekaran and Adhyayan work in the same company. They become
friends and start an online portal called Schoolyard. Soon Adhyayan
and Rajasekaran leave the venture which is going through rough times.
Uday
is arrested in a paper leak case. It is alleged that the papers were
leaked through Schoolyard. Adhyayan and Rajasekaran come to their
friend’s rescue. In between is the happy love life of Rajasekaran
and his junkie girlfriend Sneha and not so happy married life of
Adhyayan and Shruti.
What
I liked about SOAR is the novelty of the subject. It is nice to see
novels set around new and contemporary subjects. There is not a
single spelling or grammatical mistake in the book. These days even books
of leading publishers are ridden with mistakes of spelling and
grammar. So I really appreciate the author for clean editing.
What
I did not like is the love and marital lives of Adhyayan and
Rajasekaran consuming pages when Uday is in jail. It is hard to digest them romancing when they are tried hard to find the culprit. Also Adhyanan’s
child kicking in the first three months of pregnancy is unbelievable.
Same stands true with the scenes involving the police and the lawyer.
The lawyer argues before the police as if he is a judge. Also cases
are compounded before the court and not the police. If these mistakes
are overlooked SOAR makes a decent read.
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