Review Diaries ( Last Seychelles Flame by Medha Nagur)

Remember the song "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson?
That's the first thing that came to my mind after I finished reading this book.
Life throws curve balls at us time and again. But one simply doesn't roll over and play dead. You gotta fight back and fight to keep your dreams alive.
Like the protagonist does in this wonderfully warm book. For her life isn't a bed of roses, her parents would rather have married off than listen to her dreams, her ex(whom she is still not over) is an epic jerk and a text book loser(and whenever I saw him I felt like getting inside the book and punching him). Then we see office politics and crappy bosses(who remind you of that partial teacher in school who only ever favoured her favorite students irrespective of you being right). But ultimately everything comes down to how you handle it all. Adrija is you and me and any other girl who had to fight stereotypical blocks on our road to success.
Adrija fights tooth and nail against it, she stands strong against her mom's emotional blackmail and her father's verbal bullying, she tries to be professional and let her work do the talking all the while dealing with "principal" like egotistical boss and trying her best to deal with her blast from the past, 6feet rude-dude of an ex-boyfriend. And I am pretty sure if asked she will blame her teenage hormones for that particular mistake in her love life(later in the book she says so herself). And most importantly Om, artist-slash-goofball-slash-Jabber Jackson-slash-famous artist-slash-goofball-slash- rich cutie with a heart of gold-slash-knight in shinning armour.
And no one can mistake Adrija as a heartless person, she might be stubborn and opinionated and headstrong but she isn't someone who will hurt a fly. She will rather face the evil dragon, who is busy huffing scalding abuses and puffing rude nonsense than call out for her knight for he is busy with some work. She fights for her dreams, fails to do it, get beaten black and blue by life(both literally and metaphorically), she is seen breaking down and crying her eyes out and having nervous breakdowns but she always gets up.
That's the lesson one should learn from this book.
Life can be hard and tough and downright horrible to you but you shouldn't give up. Stand your ground and keep working on your dreams. They will come true.
So, I,Manali Dey will give 5 stars out of 5 to this book and a warm hug to the writer for this candy-like book.