Review: Long Distance Relationship by Rachit Bhushan

Love. It's a feeling which has not fitting description for it. Every human being experiences it one or the other time in his/her life. We all have out experiences. Novels have become a medium to portray love in the best possible manner in front of our audiences and gain something out of the author's experiences. Long Distance Relationship by author Rachit Bhushan is one more attempt to portray love of a person. Will the book survive the onslaught of other love stories or will it fizzle out? Let's find out.

A novel which has emotions like never before has sacrifices that gives love a new definition and has romance that intensifies with every page. The story where it has family to friends has beautiful beginning but has different ends. A journey where 2 hearts beat but it is just one name that they repeat. All that can be said about this story is to love someone is the best thing for few.....but to be loved by same someone........ Does destiny has the same fate for every one of you? 

The cover page looks well structured in accordance with the title. The blurb just gives a slight hint about what to expect from the story without mentioning the protagonist's name. The title itself gives an impression of a long distance relationship story of two lovers. But is there more than meets the eye? Next few paragraphs will clear out all for the readers. 

The story revolves around a young and a simple boy Rishi who has dreams and aspiration to become a successful engineer. He is focused, dedicated, obedient and possesses good looks too. He is way too simple for the worldly riches. Things change around when he is introduced to the world of Internet and what follows up is a story which will make hearts ache, love blossom and expectations crush within few moments. Then there's Pooja a childhood friend of Rishi & next door neighbor who's been secretly harvesting love in her heart for Rishi. What will happen when Rishi will come to know about it and how will he handle everything is the story. 

The book is an editorial disaster. It's full of mistakes. Spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes and the Hindi words have been written wrong at many places and at many places even words are missing too changing the meaning of the sentence completely. The index is another disaster without any page numbers for the chapters. It has fairly long paragraphs and lack of punctuation marks and poor editing just makes it a sore for the eyes. 

The story has a lot of promise in it with lots of twists and turns in the latter half. The first half will cover the lovey dovey mushy moments of Rishi & Anjali and their online love story which is not a new concept. The latter half brings Pooja and her undiscovered love for Rishi in the limelight leaving him in the lurch which makes things really interesting towards the end. The emotions of a mother and some untold secrets in the last few chapters are heart tearing. It has a right kind of mix of emotions in it. 

The presentation is very shabby with a poorly edited book pushed in the market for the readers. It gives a look of a rough manuscript full of errors and mistakes nearly on each and every page of the book. The mixture of Hindi & English ain't so smooth. The plot in the second half is the only saving grace for the story. A lot was expected from it but an editorial disaster like this will kill the charm of the story completely and will leave the readers annoyed and exhausted. 

RATINGS: 

2 OUT OF 5.