Book Review 42
Name Of The Book : The Bitter Pill Social Club
Author : Rohan Dahiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Year : 2018
Category : Fiction
Review :
You know exactly who they are. The ones who walk right past club lines, who get what they want before they ask for it. It's a familiar cast : the centre of attention, the shameless flirt, the loudmouth, the narcissistic writer. You've seen them all. You've felt their Gucci-annointed aura. Laughing and dancing. Kissing the wrong people at the wrong time. Swaying to their own beat. Going out every night that they're sad. Finding solace in the crowd in a city paved with mildly good intentions and cocaine lines. A city of smooth talkers, armchair activists, and the rich brats of Instagram. A place to talk pop spirituality and purple prose in connoisseur-only jazz clubs. The Bitter Pill Social Club takes a look at the lives of the Kochhar family, who find themselves drifting apart in the city of djinns, gins, and fake friends wrapped up in cigarette smoke. As one of their own gears up to tie the knot, three siblings come home to the neurotic parents who raised them. Meanwhile the parents face the family patriarch's constant judgement. Divorce, disappointment, and disasters ensue as the entitled Kochhar brood dodges old lovers and marriage proposals.
The book revolves around a dysfunctional rich family living in Delhi. There are a lot of characters and they are haphazardly incorporated into the storyline without prior introduction so I found it difficult to keep track. All the characters are filthy rich and splurge money on theirs whims and fancies. The characters were not at all relatable and the story was so highly dramatized that it felt like an exaggeration. The lunatic behaviour of the characters are good for a while but after that I was plain bored. The pace of the book is dragging. The writing style is not one which appealed to me. The cover of this book has been beautifully designed. The story would have been better suited for a television series rather than a book. Overall, this book did not work for me.
Rating : 3/5
Name Of The Book : The Bitter Pill Social Club
Author : Rohan Dahiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Year : 2018
Category : Fiction
Review :
You know exactly who they are. The ones who walk right past club lines, who get what they want before they ask for it. It's a familiar cast : the centre of attention, the shameless flirt, the loudmouth, the narcissistic writer. You've seen them all. You've felt their Gucci-annointed aura. Laughing and dancing. Kissing the wrong people at the wrong time. Swaying to their own beat. Going out every night that they're sad. Finding solace in the crowd in a city paved with mildly good intentions and cocaine lines. A city of smooth talkers, armchair activists, and the rich brats of Instagram. A place to talk pop spirituality and purple prose in connoisseur-only jazz clubs. The Bitter Pill Social Club takes a look at the lives of the Kochhar family, who find themselves drifting apart in the city of djinns, gins, and fake friends wrapped up in cigarette smoke. As one of their own gears up to tie the knot, three siblings come home to the neurotic parents who raised them. Meanwhile the parents face the family patriarch's constant judgement. Divorce, disappointment, and disasters ensue as the entitled Kochhar brood dodges old lovers and marriage proposals.
The book revolves around a dysfunctional rich family living in Delhi. There are a lot of characters and they are haphazardly incorporated into the storyline without prior introduction so I found it difficult to keep track. All the characters are filthy rich and splurge money on theirs whims and fancies. The characters were not at all relatable and the story was so highly dramatized that it felt like an exaggeration. The lunatic behaviour of the characters are good for a while but after that I was plain bored. The pace of the book is dragging. The writing style is not one which appealed to me. The cover of this book has been beautifully designed. The story would have been better suited for a television series rather than a book. Overall, this book did not work for me.
Rating : 3/5