A Price to Love By Smita Das: Book Review
A Price To Love by Smita Das Jain is the author’s third book and the latest release. The story has three important characters – Mehul, Rishabh and Sameep, along with the lead Sonia Ajmera. Sonia is a career-focused girl who is overflowing with emotions and exploring her relationships like love, marriage, and career as time passes.
She graduated from the esteemed IIM- Ahembadad and joined the leading media company. She meets the other 3 characters during her personal and professional growth and it brings to her struggles, desires, and realisations that’s how the story unfolds, going back and forth in time.
A Price to Love By Smita Das: Book Blurb
Do a stellar academic background, a well-paying job with ample recognition, and a loving life partner imply happiness? Sonia is an ambitious woman working in the country’s most prominent media company. Sameep, her husband, has loved her ever since their IIM-Ahmedabad days. Her direct report, Mehul, idolises her, and her boss, Rishabh, acknowledges her intellectual prowess. But Sonia’s past interferes with the present, making her life—and the lives of those around her— lack balance. Time flies fast but leaves shadows behind.
A Price to Love is a contemporary tale showcasing the struggles of making a thriving personal life and a successful career tango in the highly competitive corporate arena… especially if you are a woman.
A Price to Love By Smita Das
LANGUAGE: English
READING AGE: 14 years and above
PRINT LENGTH : 248 pages
BOOK FORMAT: It is available on Amazon as paperback and ebook in Kindle Unlimited
PUBLISHER: Readomania (29 September 2022)
A romping romance with desires and addled emotions excellently brewed by Smita Das Jain.
– Sutapa Basu, Award-winning, bestselling author.
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A Price to Love By Smita Das: Book Review
‘A price to love’ is a compassionate story of Sonia’s personal and professional life, a career-focused woman eager to work hard and move up the corporate ladder. Some positives of the book are
- The narrative is strong moving forward and backwards in time sharing more on the depth of the character’s emotions.
- Though the female protagonist Sonia is the lead with so many overflowing emotions, it’s the other 3 men, who came at various stages in her life and brought out the feelings in her. All this makes their characters interesting and you are glued to the book.
- A little bit of grey shades to Sonia’s character every now and then, keeps you guessing and makes the story gripping.
- After every important milestone of her life, Sonia writes a page in her diary which always end up with something her mother would have ended up saying on the matter. those letters are really interesting and add depth to the character.
Overall a typical, all-happy ending with a little grey, with a hint of romance masala with too many corporate work-life projects( which I think could be trimmed off a little), kind of a story. Definitely worth a read over a lazy weekend.
Rating 4/5 Stars
You can get your copy here on amazon or read it on Kindle Unlimited for free
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As u say- Definitely worth a read over a lazy weekend; I will give this book a try. more so, because I like the review of the book
Sometimes reading the old plot is new mode becomes interesting read. Shall check book on Kindle and give a leisure read.
We all have some positive and some grey shades in our personalities which makes me relate to Sonia’s character. I would love to read it during my next road trip.
I like the plot of the book. These types of real stories is what I like as we can relate to many instances and that’s makes it real and fun read. Will check this out.
Sounds like a very contemporary tale from your review. I like Indian Litt which showcases working women and highlights their achievements, but I guess this book is a masala romance with a lot of masala. Interests me for sure.
This is a book that brings about different aspects of human relationships and values. It was a part of our review program and 99% of the bloggers loved it.
yes, the complexity of the relationship was great. I loved it too. Just over-emphasis on corporate projects/discussions made it a little lengthy. other than that a beautiful story.
I somehow feel little connected as a woman who get into different emotions in different stages of life. Will surely get my hands on this book.
I had read a few articles about corporate work life recently and learn the struggle that women working in corporate sector face in their day to day life. I really liked the theme of this book. would love to give this a try. thanks Gunjan for sharing your honest review with us.
While reading the review, I felt that this is pretty common plot. but as you said, I won’t mind reading it over a weekend with a cup of chai. To give our mind a break and just enjoy reading, sometimes, we need some predictable story plots as well.
yes, though its not predictable, but definately a worthy read, check it for free on Kindle