📖 Concealed Affections
🖋️ Jaya Sri Naga Jyothi
For how long are you ready to wait for love?
Meera wanted nothing more than to meet her childhood crush Harsha for once more in her life. She didn't realise it sooner when her crush turned into love and this made her wait for him even when she was far away from him.
When she rejected a proposal by her classmate, she realises she was just like him, with her own one-sided romance. She takes a decision to stop thinking about her past and move on. That is precisely the moment when her Dad announces the arrival of Harsha, the man in her mind!
With a simple plot of two one-sided lovers meeting years later, the story was engaging. It was interesting to see how both of these main characters saw each other and decided to wait for the other one to confess their love first. Harsha was determined to make Meera confess but was jealous of her interaction with her best friend, Vicky. As for Meera, she has no idea how Harsha sees her and decides to wait it out.
As for the characters, I was unable to like Harsha for the most part of the book because of his attitude. He was extremely possessive and never liked it when anyone contradicted with him. That said, I liked the character development that happened in the end. As for Meera, her portrayal was able to capture the way a woman who is unable to confess her love behaves. The supporting characters in the story were given sufficient space in the story and their stories were discussed through the sub-plots.
While reading this book, I wished that it had fewer pages. As I mentioned, the story was a simple one but the page count was near to six-hundred which I wasn't a big fan of. Even then, the simplicity portrayed by the book helped me read it smoothly and faster.
Rating: 3.5/5 ⭐
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