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732 pages, Hardcover
If this book had a tagline, that is, if someone, ANYONE, bothered to put more of an effort designing decent covers for Urdu books and giving them taglines, I believe it would be:
I was reminded of Dil Ka Nagar and Jannat Kay Pattay but really, there are several dozen other books it can be a cousin of. It's got all the tropes, my bhais and bajis.
It's littered with oddities and little inconsistencies but that obviously doesn't matter because faithfulness to tropes is more important.
(c) A girl is kidnapped and she and her kidnapper end up falling in love.
Kidnappings are a must. They lead to strong, loving relationships and trust so powerful nothing can break it...Let me move on from this point and focus on the 'reason' of the kidnapping. There is usually one. However, I missed it here I think. So the girl got kidnapped by the best friend of the dude the girl's car ended up smashing into. That's what he said at first, he was doing this in retaliation? But then he admitted that he wasn't even a direct friend let alone a 'best' friend and near the end of the book he changed his statement again and said that he was a friend. Regardless (yes, regardless of this gigantic irregularity) his fury and display of madness didn't make sense to me until the end.
Because check this out, this dude was the most sober, mature and responsible guy in his family...Da Faq?

We come to Lord Asshole and the 'powerful patriarch ruling over his family' trope. You need a father figure, a head of the family, but he's supposed to be a symbol of authority but also love, compassion and father-ness, you know? Not here. He wasn't a father, he was just an asshole. I sincerely hope that this is just a trope and people aren't actually oppressed by evil grandfathers. He not only dictates the lives of his children but his grand-children as well, and literally every decision he makes is wrong. Tajdaar Begum's standing up to him near the end was the most satisfying thing in the entire book honestly.
Speaking of Durr e Shahwar, what an impossible girl. She delivered the best comebacks and banter and her katha dance with pizza box line had me laughing for a good 2 minutes. But she also made me so MAD and I'm glad her guy took his sweet time softening towards her.
Finally, Sheherzad and Hamza. This track had the JKP vibe. I honestly believe Haadi should have been Hamzad because Hamza's presence was so... extra. If he and his family weren't in this book and it was Haadi who loved Sheherzad I think it would have been more exciting. Hamza's character didn't feel as 'connected' to the story as the rest of them (prolly because they were all cousins and he wasn't one of them, HA), he was very obviously 'put' there for Sheherzad.