By Sandy Kundra Verma
Book Summary of Burnt Toast - Author
Moulshree Dutta, with her IIM (Kolkata) degree, thought she had made it. But the moment she walks into the advertising agency’s flashy office, life plunges into a roller-coaster ride, landing her into the arms of the playboy Arjun Desai. How does her timetable- type personality fit into mad-bad advertising? On the surface, Kanika Anand has everything a girl could wish for. Rich, model-like looks, with a perfect boyfriend. A textbook case of ‘Too good to be true’. But there is more to her than meets the eye.
Lajja Mehta-Kapur is wondering what comes after happily-ever-after. An inquisitive mother-in-law, detergent powder and a philandering husband? Is the perfect life really a perfect let-down? But her bed has been made, life is over, until an ignored infatuation is kindled, whose flames threaten to destroy her life.
Three carefully planned lives lose their balance by a gentle swish in the air. Proving that life cannot be a perfect cream-cake; it’s a piece of burnt toast. You scrape off the edges to enjoy the taste.
- Young and vibrant characters.
- Reflects the dilemmas of modern day working women.
- An entertaining and colourful narrative.
Sandy Kundra Verma did her MBA from MDI Gurgaon in 2001 and decided to pursue her passion, advertising, joining Draft FCB as their strategic planner. After years of living on a percentage of what her B-school batch-mates were being paid and convincing herself that it was all worth it, she decided to branch out into what she liked even more. Writing. This is her first novel.
Book Review - Burnt Toast
Well... I did enjoy the book. As few others have quoted here, it is a good read for killing your time. Other than that need to give a pat to the writer as I understand this is Sandy's first...
Negatives:
1. The book lacks proper editing. When I finished the book, though it had a happy ending, I had a feeling of incompleteness and felt like the ending should have been given more concentration to get that 'complete feeling'.
2. Proof reading: There are few places where the proof reader must have dozed off while doing his/her job. For ex: page 212 line 4 "Kunal turned away...." apparently it should have been "Vishal turned away...." (I was pretty confused for some time and re-read the previous page to see if I missed something). There was one more instance similar to this one but with a word missing in the middle of the line.
Could have used less of advertising jargon's (atleast I haven't heard them in common). There was only one place where the author cared to explain "Focus Group".
Positives:
The book was very captive, though in some places it suggests you to take a break (places where the author made sure that the things that you predict while reading will just not happen and you have to stick to authors "beating around the bush" criteria in order to find out what happens next.
Easy to finish: It was a easy read, though people who don't know or understand hindi will have to get help to find out the meaning of few words in every other page (well, my husband doesn't know hindi so he definitely won't touch this book)
Overall comments:
If one of my friend needs a book to simply while the time I would give them my copy to read but would not suggest to buy it. It's just a one time read book.
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