This is a story by a British man from India and I highlight that because I haven't liked a book from India in a while after reading A Fine Balance and loving it so much. Everything seemed to just follow in its footsteps or be too close to impressing Oprah. Anyway, this isn't written by an Indian, but by a Brit with Indian background.
There were in fact many nice moments throughout the book where I thought that the character development was alright and you really got into it, but the main drawback I found was something I've encountered before when author's use the literary device of writing in flashback. This book spent so much time talking about current events as if they were past tense that it made it seem like it was leading up to something and when that lead up finished, it was ultimately quite disappointing. Disappointing like Oldboy disappointing. Anyway some of the computer stuff was kind of fun and bewitchingly simply and sexy but overall the characters were unbelievable and the "romance" of the story was only apparent by the fact that it says that its supposed to be a romance.
The writing style manages to make it at least readable but honestly, I'd just skip it.
Four trojans out of 10
-Andrew
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Keep up the good work.
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