You Never Know When Youll Get Lucky! by Priya Narendra

You Never Know When Youll Get Lucky! Reviews

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  Apoorva

  I had purchased this book a very long time ago (I think it was during my university holidays) & I remember consuming it in one go. I used to be mad about those cheeky passionate novels where the guy pursues the lady erratically & the girl shies away but eventually, both fall in love & do absurd things to be together. In brief, all's well that ends well! Now when I re-read 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 & feel it to be a breezy read. Priya's story-telling technique is ostentatious; she uses all her realistic accounts of her surroundings & 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 fast-paced narrative.
  
  The title correctly describes the plot. The book shows a funny viewpoint on weddings & dating in India. It uses creative writing in building an engaging set of characters & a storyline. Though this book befits the chick-lit 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.
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  Arcopol Chaudhuri

  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.
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  Smita Beohar

  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 Mom’s 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 & out of relationships) that she has underutilised her potential. She decides to correct this.
  But can life ever be straightforward?Nah!
  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 mother’s 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 & turns to keep the reader hooked.
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  Reet Singh

  I met the author, Priya Narendra, at the Pune International Literary Festival in September 2014, 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 story-teller 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!
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  Ria Majumdar

  Awesome doesn't define it. You Never Know When You'll Get Lucky is the first chic-lit 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!
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  Akshay

  Awesome entertainment :) and as mentioned on the cover Unputdownable.
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  Amit Gupta

  When Kajal, a sassy never-afraid-to-make-an-idiot-of-herself-in-public copywriter, finally decides to put her love-life on hold and focus on that long-overdue promotion, fate mysteriously throws her way a stream of eligible bachelors: from Mr Could-Be-Right 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 childhood-nemesis-turned-amorous-pursuer.
  
  Add to the mess a client who is a pain in the ass, a crucial ad campaign for a brand of condoms, disapproving middle-class 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 you’ll get lucky!
  
  I must confess upfront that I have never been a great fan of chick-lits 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 chick-lit 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 over-the-top 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 quick-burst 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 over-reactions) 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 chick-lit in your hands for a weekend read. I am going with 3.5/5 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 chick-lits by Indian authors you can say the same in these times?
  
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  Anushtha

  Its nice though complicated!
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  Lokesh Nipane

  Good one time read in one sit...!!!!!!!
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  Aneesha Rao

  fast paced.. funny...
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  Agnivo Niyogi

  Humorous, Typical Chick-Flick, Mushy-Romance. A Good rapid read for flights
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  Anupama

  Fun and charming...fabulous on flight read :)
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  Sonam Peday Wangchuk

  AN AMAZING STORY BEING PORTRAIT
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  Nikhil Talwar

  Intersting!!!
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  Anand

  Funny and entertaining!