Will You Be My Secret?

Why do you read budding authors so much?

 Well, no one is born legend.

I feel pity for those who feel guilty for picking those new works, and instead of assisting the author with their mistakes, they bash them for their amateur craft. Well, only practice makes a man perfect.

I read this book- Will You Be My Secret by Sanskriti Mishra and got something to look back on in October 2021. The author speaks of this story as the story of forbidden love, but why?

Aayna, 25 years old budding author and an entrepreneur, comes to Mumbai in search of a story. She can’t take much time off from her business, but she can’t write what she hadn’t felt yet. Will she be able to find her story in this limited period? She gets the first job she was looking for, and there she has an unexpected encounter with a guy.

Nikumbh has a terrible past but has kept himself stiff for his family. He lives with his mother and is a corporate employee. He is also a budding entrepreneur and hasn’t taken any break past two years. He had some terrible past, but what? Nikumbh meets a girl one day while running late for his job, and he desires to see her more often.

Yes, Nikumbh and Aayna get along and Aayna gets her story in Nikumbh. But what if she falls for him? What if he falls for her? What if he gets to know that he is a puppet for her new story? Will she be able to complete the story? Aayna is hideous about her past but reads Nikumbh as an open book. What is she hiding? What about Nikumbh, is he ready to get hurt again?

The book carries an informal tone and forms a connection with the readers. The writing style is easy to comprehend, and the story setting is subtle. The sub-plots with supporting characters enthrals the readers. In the end, out of the blue, unfathomable suspense shows its face. Even though we expect a miracle, the climax was believed to happen, but this enigmatic suspense on the last page leaves us in awe. What happens next is yet to be known. We do deserve the sequel, else Aayna succeeded in keeping her story hidden from us, too.