Book: A Story Between Lines: Where the Journey Mattered More than the Destination
Author: Santhosh Sivaraj
Pages: 126
Publication: 2019
Genre: (continue reading!)

Content 4/5
Cover design 4.5/5

Blogpost by Dhanu

Have you ever had a dream in the world of fantasy with your loved ones?
And woke up to realise that person is no longer beside to you whereas you found that part of your memory got vanished along with them?

Well, the story begins with something like this. The story begins in a surreal world of Aditya. He is a young software developer who lost his some major part of his memories. His condition is termed as retrograde amnesia, where the recent time memories of a person get totally swept out from one’s brain.

Here, Aditya not only lost his memories but also his only relation of his life, his beloved wife, Nila. The story goes with this path of finding Nila as well as his memories that get vanished along with her. The story has lots of untold lines between each lines of the story that slowly get revealed one by one but not everything.

With his loss of memories and without knowing the whereabouts of his wife, makes this story to move further beyond what I had expected. Even though the end of the story comes all of the sudden, there are many details that as a person we had left them unnoticed in our busy rat race life. Especially about the war and the people who were still staying at the war zones with the unfaded smile of belief in their face.

The character modulation and the flow of the story is good to go with the story. The language is lucid and attention pinner with each word of the author. The cover design has beautifully expresses the overlook of the story! But don’t judge a book by it’s cover. You will get lot than you have seen.

The story delivers the loads of untold messages with such a deep insights about life, love, faith, war (Syria) and what not! For such a short read, this book carries tons of lessons about our contemporary life. The story left me with more riddles and questions about the existence in the world which the author wants to be answered by the time.

I recommend this book for your short, yet gripping evening read.

Happy reading!

PS: So the genre that I have in my mind for this one is Contemporary Novella. And what you felt about the genre!

PPS: This is my own edited picture from kindle e-book cover.