A review by jainandsdiary
Roses aren't Red by Fallenstar, Fallenstar

4.0

Book: ROSES AREN’T RED
Author: Bishal Bora

This is a story revolving around three main characters, Karan Gill Vohra, Flora Skyler Evelyn and Sarah Jay Sharma. The story starts when suddenly one day Karan meets Flora, her love since her childhood. And then he started telling us about their childhood.

Karan was in love with Flora but unfortunately they both were friends since Kindergarten and so they were just like 'friends' and are in friend zone. Meanwhile Karan have many strategies to impress Flora, while Sarah, her lab mate, loves him. And so there is a love triangle here. But let me tell you, this is not a typical love triangle that we have read till now. There were a lot of twists and turns there.

Apart from the love story, there were other few topics also raised in the story like LGBTQ, rape and ragging that goes simultaneously with the story.

But for me, I feel some void in the story. Like the topics of LGBTQ and rape can be raised more effectively. Like they were raised but was lost somewhere in the story later. And for me personally, I wanted to know more about the characters. The story can be extended more. The ending was good but it can be kept similar with more description about the characters. I want to know more about Karan and Flora but a bit more about Sarah amd Riddhi (Riddhi is sister of Karan) because they were the characters I personally liked more.

I will recommend this book to the people who love reading romance as it is not a typicall romance. Also, the language is simple, so beginner can also try it if they have no issues with abusive words.

Trigger warning: Abusive words, rape, ragging.