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Add this book Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n Buy this book on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quarter Life Crisis is the story of Prachur, an engineering student hailing from Shimla who is in a long-term relationship with Neera. He is someone who is described as lazy and who doesn’t have any goals. However, he forced to face reality\u00a0when his girlfriend gets pregnant. The book follows with the ups and downs in the lives of this couple.<\/p>\n It has been a long time since I read an Indian college romance novel. My experience with them hasn’t been great so my expectations weren’t high with this book.\u00a0Having a child before marriage is a huge taboo in our country and\u00a0so I was curious to see how the author handled this topic.<\/p>\n The beginning of this book takes place while Prachur and Neera are in their final year of college. The rest of the book takes place in their hometown Shimla. I liked that this book was set in a hilly region\u00a0and not in a city like most contemporary Indian books I’ve read. Sometimes the book moves at a slow pace but it was still well structured.\u00a0The book\u00a0mainly shows\u00a0the ups and downs of a relationship between a young couple and how it is made even more difficult with a newborn child.<\/p>\n The writing of this book is fairly good. I did have some problems with the narration and dialogue. Sometimes the characters\u00a0talk in a very formal tone that is completely\u00a0impractical and doesn’t fit with the setting\u00a0of the book.\u00a0The narrator sometimes uses extremely weird words that I have never heard of and no one uses anymore. This type of dialogue is only seen in classics and it doesn’t fit with a book set in the 21st century.<\/p>\n Prachur is a lazy person who even appears as cold sometime. He is a little irresponsible and\u00a0needed the most character development.\u00a0There were many\u00a0points in the book where he says incredibly sweet things to Neera and on the other hand, there were times when I doubted his love for her.\u00a0He talks about standing up for Neera but becomes a coward when faced with an actual\u00a0situation. His\u00a0sister is more helpful to Neera than him. His philosophies\u00a0didn’t make sense to me.<\/p>\n Prachur\u00a0is constantly trying to find his purpose in life or more like wondering about it. \u00a0His character does develop by the end of the book but I still think he could’ve been constructed better. I know it was important to the plot of the book that Prachur remained very average and a little lost\u00a0but it didn’t make him a great\u00a0protagonist to read about. One thing that I loved about him\u00a0was that he held on to Neera because\u00a0he needed someone strong and smart like\u00a0her in his life.<\/p>\n I also really liked Prachur’s sister. She was very brave and strong. She helps both Pachur and Neera throughout the book and is very selfless. I loved the fact that the author included such strong female characters in this book.<\/p>\n The main focus of this book was Neera and Prachur’s relationship and the difficulties they face. It wasn’t overly\u00a0dramatic and I appreciated that. I do think the book\u00a0could’ve been a little shorter.<\/p>\n Overall, this book was an average read for me. It is not anything special but different than\u00a0the books I usually read.\u00a0It is described as a coming-of-age novel which I think is fitting to an extent.<\/p>\n\n
I loved Neera. She was a very strong character. She was never blinded by her love for Prachur except when she left IIT and joined his college to be with him. She had her goals and always stuck to them. She was willful, intelligent, and she didn’t let Prachur get away when he made mistakes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI think the parents in the book were practically created. Angry, supportive and disappointed according to the situation. I’m not saying they were perfect and always in favor of Prachur and Neera but they reacted as one would expect them to.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“I recieved a copy of this book from The Readers Cosmos<\/a>. All opinions are\u00a0honest and unbiased.”<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n