Book Review # 59 Wake Up Girl: Niharika Jindal
This book was sent by the author in exchange of an honest and unbiased review.
Blurb:
Naina is back from America, after four years of living on her own. A natural rebel, she has had some fairly life-altering experiences which Mum and Dad would not approve of at all if they get to know. But will her spirit and her stand be enough to fight the forces of parental pressure and heckling aunties baying for her nuptials?
Back in the bosom of her conservative family, Naina cannot even begin to imagine the turn her life is going to take. It's wedding season, and she must now be married. Because every self-respecting upper-middle-class family in India do that, right? Marriage at the 'right age' to the 'right family'…whether she likes it or not.
Naina's worst nightmares are about to come true. What hits her within a week of being at home completely changes her world and her life as she embarks on a journey that will define her and provide her an education that only life can.
Ayaan, Rohan, Akshay, Shiven. Who will it be? Will she even have a shot at romance, being with someone she loves, irrespective of his caste, respectability or bank balance? She will have to summon all the chutzpah within to fight for herself. For her notions of love and living.
Will she succeed? Like a chrysalis unfolding, will Naina, too, emerge with her wings unscathed?
My Take:
A very bold and refreshing take on marriage and life. We live in a society where still a girls opinion is considered secondary for marriage. Parents decide marriage. Naina is a free spirited girl who doesn't fit in typical slim beautiful girl; at least she feels so. She always succumbs to her parents wishes be it her post graduation major, where she wishes Psychology and her parents force her for Economics or her choice of guy to get married to.
Getting to study abroad and do a course her parents pick up, she falls in love with Ayaan,but falls apart thanks to her parents interference and her not being able to speak her mind. A witty take on how family and relatives start troubling in the name of marriage and groom search.
How she deals with her inferiority complex and learn to speak up her mind, her journey, her choices form the crux of the story. A book most girls would connect to. Freedom to choose is something everyone should be given. This book also has something for parents on how they should allow their kids to make their choices. They might not be right but that's how they would learn to make mistakes and learn from them. Allow them to make mistakes and learn from them.
A very simple story, easy narration and crisp write up. Kudos Niharika for handling the subject with such ease. This can be helpful to many girls around us facing such situation everyday. Might be their cue to take a lesson or two.
Go grab a copy girls to learn to Wake up and speak up your mind and guys to find of what a girl really goes through in the name of groom hunting. Might be able to help your sister/ friend.
I would rate this book 4.5 /5.
You can buy the book here
Blurb:
Naina is back from America, after four years of living on her own. A natural rebel, she has had some fairly life-altering experiences which Mum and Dad would not approve of at all if they get to know. But will her spirit and her stand be enough to fight the forces of parental pressure and heckling aunties baying for her nuptials?
Back in the bosom of her conservative family, Naina cannot even begin to imagine the turn her life is going to take. It's wedding season, and she must now be married. Because every self-respecting upper-middle-class family in India do that, right? Marriage at the 'right age' to the 'right family'…whether she likes it or not.
Naina's worst nightmares are about to come true. What hits her within a week of being at home completely changes her world and her life as she embarks on a journey that will define her and provide her an education that only life can.
Ayaan, Rohan, Akshay, Shiven. Who will it be? Will she even have a shot at romance, being with someone she loves, irrespective of his caste, respectability or bank balance? She will have to summon all the chutzpah within to fight for herself. For her notions of love and living.
Will she succeed? Like a chrysalis unfolding, will Naina, too, emerge with her wings unscathed?
My Take:
A very bold and refreshing take on marriage and life. We live in a society where still a girls opinion is considered secondary for marriage. Parents decide marriage. Naina is a free spirited girl who doesn't fit in typical slim beautiful girl; at least she feels so. She always succumbs to her parents wishes be it her post graduation major, where she wishes Psychology and her parents force her for Economics or her choice of guy to get married to.
Getting to study abroad and do a course her parents pick up, she falls in love with Ayaan,but falls apart thanks to her parents interference and her not being able to speak her mind. A witty take on how family and relatives start troubling in the name of marriage and groom search.
How she deals with her inferiority complex and learn to speak up her mind, her journey, her choices form the crux of the story. A book most girls would connect to. Freedom to choose is something everyone should be given. This book also has something for parents on how they should allow their kids to make their choices. They might not be right but that's how they would learn to make mistakes and learn from them. Allow them to make mistakes and learn from them.
A very simple story, easy narration and crisp write up. Kudos Niharika for handling the subject with such ease. This can be helpful to many girls around us facing such situation everyday. Might be their cue to take a lesson or two.
Go grab a copy girls to learn to Wake up and speak up your mind and guys to find of what a girl really goes through in the name of groom hunting. Might be able to help your sister/ friend.
I would rate this book 4.5 /5.
You can buy the book here
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