This book gave me an ick, that too in the first chapter. And yet I continued reading because I wanted to give it a chance.
First things first, for people who are here before they start reading the book. I must warn you. There are many unsettling, weird and illogical philosophies involved and you wouldn't wanna be attacked by them. The blurb or the cover should have had TWs written in them, but they aren't there. Which is why it's deceiving. I picked this book thinking of it being an amazing thriller. But what I got was a heap of crap. That's about how I can summarise the book to you.
After reading the blurb, I was intrigued. As to why and how men were losing their eye sights upon losing their wives. But I never got to understand that part of the story as half of my time, I was hating the Main male Character which is Prakash. It's not that other characters are good, they all are flawed to the point that you start despising them. But Prakash, he was a sadist. As much as I want to deny it, deep down I know there are people like him out there who'd force themselves on to a mentally ill woman. Once, twice and idk how many times. What I can't grasp is that, why did the Author need to write about such characters? And even if she decided to write about them, why don't we see any development, any progress, anything that might redeem them. As I flipped the pages, the inner disgust and loathing in me for these characters grew. And the unending lecture of philosophy. I didn't think I was signing up for something like this.
Then again, one would think. Why did I continue reading it? Because I had hope, that maybe things would get better. Maybe he'll be able to find his wife and things will get better. But it only went darker and darker.
The only characters I felt pity for were Shyam and Rajani. Both of these characters were flawed. But they weren't the ones to cause harm to anyone in particular, rather they were the support system of Prakash who kept doing nonsensical, illegal things in the name of finding his wife.
Also, What's going on with? Why are the social issues not addressed properly? Women's are being downgraded, they are being raped by several men's at a time and yet no one cares. Everyone is living their life just as they were before.
You can use a book to promote feminist, feminine power and much more stuff related to our society that would eventually open the eyes of young minds finding a hiding place in these books. And yet this author decided to promote these societal beliefs that we women have been trying to fight against for so long.
No one, literally, no one can change my mind. If people come to me and say that the book was in fact not promoting these issues, I'd laugh at their stupidity. Because even if it's not meant to promote these issues, this book didn't play its part in causing a change in society.
Anyways, enough about that. I'll just have to read something better.