Earn You Never Know When Youll Get Lucky! Translated By Priya Narendra Format Kindle
paced. . funny This is a fun ride through the world of advertising, It's chic lit, but it's got a bit more soul and well etched out characters, Highly recommended for those
looking for a refreshing read over the weekend, Witty, romantic. I met the author, Priya Narendra, at the Pune International Literary Festival in September, when we sat together on the romance panel she read out a section of her book and I just knew I had to get my hands on it.
I did, and she sweetly autographed it for me,
A seriously amusing story,
I absolutely adored Kajal with all her flaws and her wicked inner thoughts, Priya is a great storyteller and mixes facts and fiction with panache,
The story races along, the characters are fabulous, the dialogues most amusing, and the love scenes poignant, I enjoyed the crazy conflicts and the well crafted suspense there is absolutely no way of predicting who Kajal is going to end up Happily Ever After with!
Lovely, lovely, lovely! I had purchased this book a very long time ago I think it was during my university holidays amp I remember consuming it in one go.
I used to be mad about those cheeky passionate novels where the guy pursues the lady erratically amp the girl shies away but eventually, both fall in love amp do absurd things to be together.
In brief, all's well that ends well! Now when I reread it, I wonder, how in the world could I ever fall for such sassy romances,
I must say, this is a riveting tale, A quintessential Bollywood form, Indian show where you don't actually have to stress much on the account amp feel it to be a breezy read, Priya's storytelling technique is ostentatious she uses all her realistic accounts of her surroundings amp tosses them at her readers, who can link to it directly from the very opening sentence.
The lively conversations give the novel a more visual appearance to the fastpaced narrative,
The title correctly describes the plot, The book shows a funny viewpoint on weddings amp dating in India, It uses creative writing in building an engaging set of characters amp a storyline, Though this book befits the chicklit style, somehow, it doesn't do full justice to it, I would suggest the work to anyone who likes reading light romance stories, It's a great effort from the author for her debut novel, Its nice though complicated! Awesome doesn't define it, You Never Know When You'll Get Lucky is the first chiclit that I actually liked because the protagonist was honest, sometimes naive, but definitely a sparky girl, All in all a very good story and I loved it! Good one time read in one sit, . . !!!!!!! When Kajal, a sassy neverafraidtomakeanidiotofherselfinpublic copywriter, finally decides to put her lovelife on hold and focus on that longoverdue promotion, fate mysteriously throws her way a stream of eligible bachelors: from Mr CouldBeRight who lives in another city, to a reputed lech of a neighbor who becomes her knight in shining armour, from a hunky researcher intent on proposing, to a childhoodnemesisturnedamorouspursuer.
Add to the mess a client who is a pain in the ass, a crucial ad campaign for a brand of condoms, disapproving middleclass parents and, to top it all, the most romantic rainstorm of the decade and Kajal seems to be no longer in control of anything! But luck has its own sweet way of dealing with troubles.
After all, you never know when youll get lucky!
I must confess upfront that I have never been a great fan of chicklits mainly because most of the authors tend to get all so emotional and drown their characters in sympathies that in the end the narrative is devoid of all the fun they might be having.
You Never Know When You'll Get Lucky! by Priya Narendra is a breath of fresh air in a clouded and muddled array of numerous chicklit authors where feminism is turned into male bashing, independence comes at the cost of relationships and romance is so drowsy you feel like puking.
The charm of this book though lies in the fact that it keeps the overthetop moments well out of the narrative and brings in surprises which linger on well after you have finished reading the book.
The story is fast paced, and even though it maintains delicate balance between personal and professional lives of Kajal, ultimately you are bowled over by the sensitivity with which author uses minimal expressions and words to convey the feelings of almost all the characters.
There are enough LOL moments which will make you smile but also intelligently interspersed are the quickburst moments of self introspection and nervous energy, I particularly enjoyed the portions where Kajal is in two minds about Mr, Right and how desperately she wanted to work out this relationship instead of being in two different cities,
My only grudge is the fact that there are too much cliches when it comes to Kajal's parent their dialogues, their reactions or rather overreactions and their ambitions.
Apart from this, the final act of both lovers coming together has been wrapped up with such ease you wonder if the writer was running short of words or time or both.
The gay character redemption in front of the parents has been dealt a little too easily in the climax so as the meteoric rise of Kajal in the advertising world.
But keep these nitpicking apart, you have an absolute perfect chicklit in your hands for a weekend read, I am going with./for Priya Narendra's 'You Never Know When You'll Get Lucky!', It is humorous and witty in equal measures, It is packaged well and will keep you hooked most of the time in the narrative, Even though it is predictable in parts, you will not feel time and energy wasted at all, For how many chicklits by Indian authors you can say the same in these times
Fun and charming, . . fabulous on flight read : AN AMAZING STORY BEING PORTRAIT Kajal, is you typical career woman, she works in an advertising firm as acopywriter, As it happens with any and every Indian girl her parents are behind her to get her married and that is how Sunny comes in picture, Son of her Moms old friend, Sunny iseverything that Kajal is not looking in her partner, As she tries to dodge off her persistent mother there is another problem that she is facing,
She has not grown professionally and all because she has never tried for it, According to her boss she has been so busy with personal life readswitching in amp out of relationships that she has underutilised her potential, She decides to correct this,
But can life ever be straightforwardNah!
She meets Sid at a wedding, gives him his number, forgets telling her name and then forgets him because he stays in Mumbai and she in Delhi.
A chance meeting later she realises that they have a chemistry that is undeniable but the long distance between the two makes them think twice,
What will she do
Will they end up together or will she have to succumb to her mothers wishes
What about her professional goals Will she again give them up for her romantic life
Read the book to know more.
My Verdict
This book threw a surprise on me, Though I liked the cover but I was not very sure about the book but I ended up reading the book in one day had I been at home I would have finished it in one sitting.
The book falls in the category of a chick lit and is as entertaining as it could be,
However unlike the other books in this genre the author has not spent time describing how beautiful or ugly the protagonist is and that for achange is refreshing.
The book is as much about the professional life of aworking girl as it is about her quest to find love which makes it believable, The book has humour, romance, friendship, few side storiesand enough twists amp turns to keep the reader hooked, Awesome entertainment : and as mentioned on the cover Unputdownable, Intersting!!! Funny and entertaining! Humorous, Typical ChickFlick, MushyRomance, A Good rapid read for flights When Kajal, a sassy neverafraidtomakeanidiotofherselfinpublic copywriter, finally decides to put her lovelife on hold and focus on that longoverdue promotion, fate mysteriously throws her way a stream of eligible bachelors: from Mr CouldBeRight who lives in another city, to a reputed lech of a neighbor who becomes her knight in shining armour, from a hunky researcher intent on proposing, to a childhoodnemesisturnedamorouspursuer.
Add to the mess a client who is a pain in the ass, a crucial ad campaign for a brand of condoms, disapproving middleclass parents and, to top it all, the most romantic rainstorm of the decade and Kajal seems to be no longer in control of anything!
But luck has its own sweet way of dealing with troubles.
After all, you never know when youll get lucky!,