A fresh take on love and passion, Sanjay Sharma's "My Happily Ever After" is, as the title suggests, infused with courtly romance and lively realistic young characters. Alongside love and romance, they also represent the everyday young boy or girl who face the different problems like pressures from family, desire to follow dreams but not being able to, peer pressure, struggle for excellence and yet trying to focus on what they want by heart. The main characters become representatives of the youngsters of perhaps every generation. This kind of makes the appeal universal in those age groups. The story on the surface seems a simple romance but these are some important and serious issues the story faces. Other than that, the other themes brought to the forefront are love, friendship, difference between different relationships and also the psychological effects one relation can have on a person.
The author has well built the two leading characters, Keshav and Aditi and the readers can easily identify themselves with them. The author shows the learning of his experience as he builds up the characters. He shows his understanding of the psychology of the people in that age owing to his profession. Since the narrative is in first person, that only brings the reader closer to the protagonist. The language of "My Happily Ever After" is easy to read and can be recommended to the readers who are beginners in reading. The book can be read by people of all ages but the book is likely to have more appeal among the younger group of readers.
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