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A review by sinamile
After All This Time by Nikita Singh
3.0
Content Warning: Lavanya does not handle her illness well
I don't know if I like this book or not. Well okay, I like it and it got me emotional and I love Shourya and Lavanya, but ugh. It was kinda slow at first, picked up, then just kind of........meh. I don't know! I wanted to love it but it kinda fell short at the end.
I don't have HIV and I can't begin to imagine what it would be like for me to find out that I do have it. I don't know what I'd do, what my reaction would be, so I can't judge Lavanya on her actions, can't blame her reaction being to completely shut down instead of getting help. We aren't all built the same so we don't all have the same reactions to situations. I don't hate her for her reaction, it's natural for her.
What I do like about the book is that even though Lavanya's HIV status plays a part in the book, that's not all it's about, not all it focuses on. Lavanya has other problems too, like the secret she been hiding since she left home and the fact that her default setting is to run away from her problems rather than face them.
The books works through it all nicely, I think.
The other MC is Shourya Kapoor. I'm highkey into Shourya, ngl. He's a sweet guy and he's not the guy of nice guy who goes around telling girls he's a nice guy, he just is. Maybe he could work on his life choices, but he's a good person!
Shourya has his own share of dramas and a lot of them, mostly all of them, involve his cheating ex girlfriend. Deepti played my boy badly and I am angry! But at least he works his shit out in the end.
It's a happy ending though, so that's fine I guess. But overall I was kind underwhelmed by the end.
I don't know if I like this book or not. Well okay, I like it and it got me emotional and I love Shourya and Lavanya, but ugh. It was kinda slow at first, picked up, then just kind of........meh. I don't know! I wanted to love it but it kinda fell short at the end.
I don't have HIV and I can't begin to imagine what it would be like for me to find out that I do have it. I don't know what I'd do, what my reaction would be, so I can't judge Lavanya on her actions, can't blame her reaction being to completely shut down instead of getting help. We aren't all built the same so we don't all have the same reactions to situations. I don't hate her for her reaction, it's natural for her.
What I do like about the book is that even though Lavanya's HIV status plays a part in the book, that's not all it's about, not all it focuses on. Lavanya has other problems too, like the secret she been hiding since she left home and the fact that her default setting is to run away from her problems rather than face them.
The books works through it all nicely, I think.
The other MC is Shourya Kapoor. I'm highkey into Shourya, ngl. He's a sweet guy and he's not the guy of nice guy who goes around telling girls he's a nice guy, he just is. Maybe he could work on his life choices, but he's a good person!
Shourya has his own share of dramas and a lot of them, mostly all of them, involve his cheating ex girlfriend. Deepti played my boy badly and I am angry! But at least he works his shit out in the end.
It's a happy ending though, so that's fine I guess. But overall I was kind underwhelmed by the end.