Boundaries Redefined

by Bhagya Chandra

Widowed one-week into her marriage, Kirthi accepts her fate and resolves not to be a grieving widow all her life. She begins to rebuild her life by focusing on a career. She is hired by Sharma Industries to avert the company’s collapse. Aditya, heir to Sharma Industries returns to India from the United States and moves right into Kirthi’s lonely and depressed heart, offering her a life she only dreamed about. Constrained by the oppressive taboo preventing all widows from remarrying, Kirthi struggles with the haunting would Aditya love her if he knew? Brought together by work, drawn closer through friendship, pulled apart by cultural taboos, their love shatters prejudice and offers hope.

Genres: Fiction

321 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2015

Reviews

[Meenal Vardan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I dont think the title and summary suits the story

Before I give my honest review, I would like to let the writer know that I appreciate her work but these were some of the reason I couldn't give the book a 5 star.

Spoiler atlert
The book was more about the fraud and crime committed at work and how the lead characters try to uncover the culprits.

The things I found annoying in this book.
1. The writer takes forever for the main characters to meet
2. There is rarely any good romantic scene between the character and suddenly the parents and family is talking about getting them married.
3. There were too many characters and at times it felt that the writer got confused herself. Seems the proof reader didn't do a good job either. For instance when Ravi met with krithi at his house with I think it was ajay, its said that ajay looked at vinay( vinay wasn't ever there) and than ajay starts talking about how evil vinay is. Another place that I found annoying was that aditiya did visit krithis house before. The day he took her on a date wasn't his 1st time meeting her parents and stuff but in that chapter its sounds like that he is visiting them for the 1st time. Another place was later in the book where varun is kidnapped, it says "satish unsecured satish" instead of i think she meant satish unsecured varun.

I know it's not easy writing a book and its easy sitting behind a computer and pointing out mistakes but I wanted to know if anyone else noticed these too and if so maybe the writer would fix it and rewrite the book. Over the book was OK. Not what I thought it would be like after reading the summary.

[Savita Ramsumair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I just couldn't out down this book. It was something different to what I'm accustomed reading. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great love story

I loved this book.
I will be sureto read the sequel.
Wonderful book.
Will read more by this author.
More books please.

[Hemangi Patgiri · Rating 3 out of 5]

What intrigued me in this book is the theme on widowhood and the so-called boundaries that barred happiness and progress of many widows in India. The writer has chosen the theme very well while exploring the different characters and their perspective towrads widowhood. I liked the strength of female protagonist Kirthi in this book. She was shunned with no mistakes of her own but yet she fought through the claws and sharp tongues of the hypocrite society and their equally half-baked stinging notions about a widow. She made an identity of her own with the support and love from her family. The perspective of few other characters also changed the life of Kirthi ultimately making her path towards a happy and loved life.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

I adore Bhagya Chandra's novels but I have to say that this one didn't immediately catch me like the first one did. This book mainly focuses on the issues surrounding the main characters place of employment, with the relationships slightly less prominent. Things really picked up towards the end with a surprising twist, and I'm happily looking forward to the sequel.