Book: My Mother's Love
Author: Rishika Chopra
Genre: Crime Thriller
Rating: 2 stars
My Review:
My Mother’s Love is the debut of Rishika Chopra. This is the kind of story that will keep you hooked from the first page, and will make you keep turning the pages with sub-plots and twists that you would never see coming. Some of the sub-plots are quite unsettling, and may trigger negative response from some readers, but the writer actually showed what is indeed happening in the society.
The book follows the story of Alicia Frankford, a renowned painter and art teacher, who commits suicide in the beginning of first chapter. The investigation follows, but it is clearly declared that it was a suicide without any evidence otherwise. Alicia, who went through an extremely disturbing childhood at the hands of her uncle, grew up to be an excellently well-renowned and rich woman. She married her high-school love, Paul, and a ridiculously famous lawyer, Trisha, was her best friend. One could ask that what more such a blessed woman ask for? But, as Shakespeare said, ‘all that glitters isn’t gold.’ In fact, Alicia’s life was not what it looked on the outside; she resented her husband, and fell for her student, Cliff. Moreover, there were dark secrets hovering in Alicia’s life. Dark, dark secrets and regrets that could lead any person to commit suicide. But then she was immensely affluent woman, and a few people could profit from that money if she died, like Trisha, Paul, or a missing child. Was she really murdered, or was it a suicide? Was Erica, who claimed to be Alicia’s daughter, really her daughter? What was the real identity of Cliff?
My Mother’s Love is a crime thriller book. The writer, Rishika Chopra, has done an excellent job in organizing the entire story. Almost every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger or twist that I definitely had no clue about. All the characters are dealt with adequate depth, but I had a bit of difficulty connecting with any of the characters. My only problem with the book was that I felt like the conversation between Alicia and Cliff was a bit digressed and immature. Also the conversation about art description was not well explored. Keeping in mind the explicit intimate scenes and dialogue, I would only recommend it if you don’t mind such explicit content.
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