Girl In Room 105

What an interesting book. Finished this in 6hrs. Enjoyed it throughout. This is the second mystery book I’ve read after ‘One Arranged Murder’. Tat book also was equally interesting. Both books should be made as Bollywood movies. Worth every penny. I like Chetan Bhagat’s mystery genre better, am eager if he writes any more mysteries in future. Completely satisfied. Received this book in good condition from Amazon.

The book claims that it's an unloved story. But trust me, this is one of the best romantic fictions one could ever read.I admired the author's ability to delicately bring up issues of law and order, discrimination in society, the Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India, and tensions in Kashmir without stirring up any controversy.I genuinely cherished Keshav and Saurabh's bromance. To have such a relationship is indeed a blessing. This murder mystery/love story is a quick, light read with sprinkles of humor.To conclude, if there's one chetan bhagat novel that I want everyone to read, I would recommend this.

It is better to love someone and get involved with him. But falling in love with someone in an attempt to move away from them to find a stable life and at the same time clinging to another person to experience intimate moments with their ex can lead to very ugly and deadly consequences.

I had started reading fiction novels after getting my hands upon Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone as I had heard a lot about it from my friends who had read the same. I remember it was also one of the initial days in college and while an introduction session whosoever described their hobby as reading, on being asked which book they have read, everyone named “Five Point Someone”. Out of curiosity, I picked up the book and liked the fun in the story telling of Chetan Bhagat and read all his four books that had released by that time. And since then I have read around 500 books out of which 90% are by Indian authors. It is just a default setting in my reading habit that I compare all the fiction books with Chetan Bhagat’s initial books which were great combination and balance of storytelling and humour.I am just done reading Chetan Bhagat’s latest release “The Girl In Room 105” which has released just today itself and along with office, I have managed to read 300+ pages in whatever free time I got. Such is the craze for reading Chetan Bhagat even today despite worrying about what people would say about my reading choice as most people pretend to hate CB as he has goofed up with the English language quite often. But that’s okay. He anyway does not portray or claim to be a literary expert and accepts that he is just a story teller and not an English teacher.CB has gone the thriller way this time with his latest release and I must say, it was a fine narration throughout the book as it ensures that you are curious about knowing who murdered the protagonist, Keshav’s girlfriend. The book starts in CB’s trademark style where in the Prologue, a character meets and tells him his whole story which CB pretends to be writing as dictated to him. The book has lot of characters and author has again ensured the chemistry between each one of them is nicely described to make the background of the story clear. The bond between Keshav and Saurabh is very nicely portrayed. The tuning between Keshav and policeman, Rana, is also very intelligently portrayed. CB has again taken care that in order to sound too intellectual, the book does not lose the simplicity and hence, keeps the timeline and narrative simple.The locality of Delhi and Kashmir are nicely described in the book and author has ensured that it is used in the story quite significantly to give the locale descriptions. The first half of the book is interesting as you get introduced to new characters and want to understand who the possible murderer of the girl could be. But it’s in the second half where the book becomes quite slow and does not give any kind of twists and turns which can astonish the reader. Talking about the climax, the way the revelation of the murder scene is introduced and described is very childish and as expected from a thriller, there is no moment where the reader would drop the book or jump out of his bed in shock.In the sake of maintaining his trademark style of writing simple stories, CB could not do complete justice to this thriller which could have been written 5 times better. Though this book is recommended for the new readers who haven’t read great thrillers and are still stuck in the genre of college romances. But for the thriller lovers, this book is a sure-shot disappointment. The terrorist thing is brought into the picture but left just like that without going deeper into it. Similarly, the girl is shown as a Muslim whereas boy belongs from the family that supports RSS but this angle has not been used even once in the book whereas a lot could have been done with this plot. Similarly, the way police leaves Keshav and his friend in spite of finding them at murder spot is disappointing in the initial phase of the story itself. CB has also promoted many brands upfront in this book which is quite evident and sounds foolish and obvious. This could have also been handled little more intelligently. Overall, this is a light read rather than a suspense thriller as been described in the synopsis and trailer of the book. I rate this one an average 3 stars out of 5.Thanks.ABHILASH RUHELA!!

The book is an example of a gripping thriller. It makes you turn pages like none other. Kudos to the author!

Let's get the obvious out of the way first: of course the story has an incredibly beautiful, smart and independent woman who loves a guy who, for the lack of a more decent term, is a loser. But that is where this story turns away from the typical.The book describes itself as an 'unlove story', I disagree wholeheartedly.This is a story about Zara, a beautiful, intelligent, open minded and brave woman (and rich) who used to be in love with the narrator, a typical, average guy, Keshav, with a deadbeat job and only one friend. When they break up (Keshav's fault, obviously), her life and her heart take her to a path no one would have imagined her to take. It is Keshav's unfortunate job to persevere through the convoluted trail she left to find closure.This book is an easy read, as are all Bhagat's books, mostly. No repeated use of the dictionary. The simple narration lends this story a feel of familiarity. Real locations, familiar names of app, companies and other trivial details serve right as a tempering of authenticity and contemporariness. One could easily imagine himself to feel and act as Keshav does.But when the main story kicks off, with it's geopolitical flavour, one is forced to wonder if a guy as simple and relatable as Keshav would or could do what he does.In this context, the story revolves more around the events that took place with a little lesser focus on the persons, the characters, the motivations.Still, 'The Girl in Room 105' is a good read for what it is, with the climax not so suspenseful and the path to the end a touch too convenient. The epilogue of happy ending does feel like band aid on a bruise.I'm sure we are going to be served a movie based (quite loosely) on this story, which, for what it's worth, would undermine the value of this narrative with cheesy romance and dance numbers.I'd probably not re-read this Novel again in the future, but it still was really a good one in a long time.