Thursday, October 16, 2014

Dark White By Shweta Brijpuria


The Book Launch of Dark White By Shweta Brijpuria happened on 21st September at the Oxford BookStore, Mumbai which spelled out the emerging trends of self publishing from first time writers. When I met the author at the book launch I was totally unprepared for the voyage of a dark mystery to be coming out of her tale.

Being a mathematician, she knows how to play with numbers and in her book it was the longevity of the chapters. She managed to retain the pulse of the reader by fickle -mindedly ensuring that her chapters were waved beautifully, to ensure that the reader does not invite boredom whilst reading  nor do they get too engrossed to be unable to keep the book aside. She's ensured the book to be a soothing journey where the reader does not finish the book in one go but enjoys it over a long period of time, absorbing and enjoying each moment as it unfolds.

Many places, I came across confused feelings whilst I read the book. It was to do with the genre of the book. It is a tendency of a reader to settle in for a book to be of a particular genre and then enjoy the rhythmic flow of the book in that manner. But over here, the moment I would believe it to be a fun and frolic college fiction, I would be thrown into the unknown with the subject being something really serious like politics then it would again take a twist into becoming a murder mystery and so on. It seems all these things have been clubbed to make a Khichdi.

In the plot, the style she's chosen to showcase a flashback and then the present is uneven as there are plenty of places where the present moment is not conveyed sufficiently well. Also, the reader finds themselves groping in the dark as they are unable to identify whats going on and who is the "I" telling the story at many places.

The characterization of  each person, has been highlighted in a manner that the author can consider writing the stories of each of the characters in the book,  separately in her forthcoming novels. The identity which each  one possesses is unique and splattered with lot of scope. Making this book the bible of all that follow as an interlink.

Moreover, I will conclude by wishing the author all the very best with her book. Overall, the book discloses and takes care of  narrating a thriller with the conclusion to the story having a definite ending and yet can be called an open one, which isn't quite common to come  across in a novel these days.
This book spells out Invention.