'This Love That Feels Right' is a bestseller writer's bold take on a controversial topic
A simple, predictable yet impactful story of a girl who found her first love when she expected it the least. Irony of her fate, it wasn’t her with husband; instead someone out of her relationship of marriage. Still that love felt so right: it felt appealing and tempting even if it wasn’t ethical for many, raising ample questions, the answers to which won’t be found that easily.
Ravinder Singh chose a very sensitive topic of love outside marriage around which he blended his comeback novel - 'This Love that Feels Right' after his last bestseller 'Your Dreams are Mine Now.' The boldness of the topic cannot be easily digested or agreed upon by many. People can raise arguments that she who was the main protagonist was wrong on her part and wasn’t allowed to fall for Aarav, but I would say she wasn’t forbidden, she too was a human made up of feelings and had a heart. It was quite natural whatever she felt, after all she hadn’t experienced the much deserving happiness in her married life with Siddharth. So it was injustice for her to live in that suffocation and such a choked marriage.
The story unfolds with Naina’s statement which was powerful enough to hint what the book comprised of. The novel starts with a light mood by introducing the characters to its readers and then slowly takes up the pace as it goes further into intimacy and depth of observing love, relationship, and marriage from a unique perception. It’s the journey of Naina, the protagonist, who slowly and innocently starts liking the company of Aarav as it was nature’s inevitable phenomena which no one could have controlled.
Cut to a moment when it is evident that the lead characters have feelings for each other and they confess, then comes the phase of dilemma – the question of ethics and what the world would say. Things get complicated and to sort it out Aarav takes a bold step which will leave readers thinking why he did that and why not the other way around of doing the unexpected. It can be assumed that the book has a happy ending, but it's not been depicted anywhere in the closure section of the novel.
As I read it a couple of times, I saw a lot of positives as well as maybe negatives. Today, this kind of topic should be talked about in more open and with more frankness, such cases may happen, it’s not a crime to love someone no matter what the situations are. It takes strength to write about it, so hats off 'Romance King' Ravinder Singh.
This book gives numerous reasons to learn something - to see love, life, and marriage from a completely different angle. Chapter 23 is my personal favorite. The words had magic woven all around them. I would say whoever hasn’t read it no matter what age group, read through it once. Young, aged, or married, everyone will have something in it for them which will enhance the character development within.
I would say 'This Love that Feels Right' is a bestseller writer's mirror to the present times of our society as he explores a controversial topic in yet another masterpiece which will leave the readers spellbound by the magic its story creates.
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