Maverick I By Gaurav Yadav.

• Book: Maverick.
• Author: Gaurav Yadav.
• Publication House: Notion Press.
• Category: Fiction.
• Rating: 2.5/5

Story-in-Short:

This is a schoolboy’s tale of love, which started in his childhood, the infatuation that never died. The hidden and deep buried story of all Indians, who once have been in love with someone or the other in their life. It is a story of dreams, mischievous, Fights, passion that kids have in school life. This tale represents the mental state of a typical Indian students, whohas entered the adolescence and experiances the emotions, where were alien to him, his quest to get the answers. This book is his journey for true love of his life. It is the story of a boy “Maverick” who becomes a Fighter Pilot and meets his love of childhood almost a decade later just to find that his destiny has planned something else for them. When everything seemed to be right, he finds himself across the border in histile terrains, in hands of enemy and declared dead by his government. His journey back to his nation, with help of the lady doctor who recovered him from death bed, his proving of being alive and Loyalty. This is the story of finding and loosing love, life and death, war, sorrow, patriotism, protest & reunion, a classic to read & go back to your childhood. 

In my view: 

Here I am done reading this love story of Dilaveez and Naina. This story takes one back to 1995 when Dilaveez, a school student falls in love with his schoolmate Naina. Naina too has feelings for him. A very cute love story that begins in school and continues up to war zone. 

This book describes those wonderful school days, bunking classes, birthday celebrations, prank on teachers and fun with friends etc. From Etah, Dilaveez moves to Agra for further studies. He joins Air Force and then the story moves further with his focus on his job as well as his love. 

The interesting part in the book is when they are on their place and enter the Pakistani territory aerially. Their communications, descriptive messages and skills to tackle the enemy planes develops interest in the story. This part sparks curiosity among readers. 

Speaking over-all: the cover page and the title, both require a serious deliberation. Even the narration style of the author isn’t that good. The book contains whole lot of grammatical errors which really irritates a reader while reading the book. At places, there are mistakes with tenses. The sentence begins in past and ends up present and vice versa. Also, articles ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ have been wrongly used. 

Usage of slang words have also been done in the book. These mistakes drag away a reader’s attention from the plots and storylines. The story too falls loose at many places. The writer should have got the book edited before publishing it as editorially the book is very week. Thorough deliberation is required.

I’ve got very little to praise the book. But anyways, I am sure that the author will consider all these things during his future projects. 

Considering everything I would rate the book with 2.5/5. 

Note: A copy of the book was sent by the author. 

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