Life Served Hot by Shomprakash Sinha Roy.

• Book: Life Served Hot.
• Author: Shomprakash Sinha Roy.
• Publication House: Grapevine India.
• Category: Fiction. 
• Rating: 3.75/5
  

Story-in-Short:

Siddhant Roy is back in Bangalore after a really depressing, detained semester. He wants to rebuild his life from scratch without looking back...

But he is an engineering student, after all. It never gets easy!

He makes a bunch of new friends, who take him on a journey where he crashes into strange apartments, gets drunk and pukes halfway across the city, tries to start an online social network and watches all his efforts fail miserably.

He faces denial, acceptance, love and hatred, all in the span of less than a year.

He must now make a choice, whether to silently withstand the oppression of his sinister & stubborn college principal, or to risk everything and take his own stand. What will Siddhant do?

Life, Served Hot is a coming-of-age story of a young rebel's undying attachment towards his dreams and survival.

In my view:

Set-backs and achievements are part and parcel of human life. We are too happy, we exclaim; exaggerate at times, when we achieve something that we desire. Similarly, reactions are completely opposite if we lose something. But that is what you call life – a mixture of palatable as well as unpalatable incidents. Palatable one’s make you happy while non-palatable teach lessons in life. I hope you remember my review on The Pink Smoke by Shomprakash Sinha Roy, don’t you? Well, here, I have finished reading Life Served Hot, a sequel of Siddhant Roy’s story. 

After having suffered a set-back in his previous relationship, Siddhant Roy confidently moves ahead in life, without forgetting lessons that the previous instance teaches him. Planning to avoid every bad thing, he tries to develop his sharp focus on studies. With new friends Siddhant tries to live and enjoy his life like before. With these new pals, he gets involved in several activities other than studies. Ignorance towards college lectures and studies however puts him in jeopardy. 

But every lock has a key and every problem has a solution. Will Siddhant Roy be able to search that key or solution to his problems? Will Siddhant be able to clear the muddle in life? How will he deal with these problems in his life? To discover the story in-depth, one needs to purchase the copy and go through it. Siddhant’s story continues from The Pink Smoke and so those who haven’t been through the previous book should get both these books to discover Siddhant’s journey! 

Over-all: The cover of the novel is good. The title of the story is riveting. Narration of the story is really gripping and delightful. The plot of the story too, is good. The drawbacks of this book include the repeated mention of activities like smoking, etc. which tend to dissolve the attention that the story grasps. It becomes slightly disinteresting at times. Also, towards the end of initial part the story becomes a bit dull. But kudos to the author’s writing style which holds eyeballs on the story despite those few dull parts. 

Considering everything, I would rate the book with 3.75/5. Congratulations to the author and hope he keeps writing in future.

NOTE: A review copy of the book was provided by the author. 

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