Book Review: Never Make A Bucket List
Book Name: Never Make A Bucket List
Author: Shraddha Sahi
Publisher: Vishwakarma Publications
Genre: Crime Fiction
Never Make A Bucket List by Shraddha Sahi is an engaging whodunit crime fiction set in Italy, investigating the death of the female protagonist Pooja.
Review
The story focuses on the life of Pooja Sharma, the female protagonist who meets a tragic death, or more precisely, an accidental death, and the events that take place as she went missing after her boat came out of Blue Grotto. From exploring the streets of Capri to Venice, and the police investigation brought the trip to a halt for all the people who were a part of the trip group in which Pooja and her husband joined, the adventures, chaos, misunderstanding, and multiple rounds of questioning by none other than the police inspector Batliwala, Indian origin yet an Italian, will keep readers to stay with the book to find out who killed Pooja. There are secrets behind her health, her husband's financial debt, and whatnot.
As the story proceeds, the characters' true nature and vulnerability come into the picture, which will make readers feel pity, worry, and agitation about the different characters in the story. Pooja is depicted as a shy, romantic, wealthy, and crazy woman who is obsessed with her husband and her family, more like an Indian wife. Ravi, her husband, is a man who is a crush of every woman. Even when he was suffering through the pain of not finding her and later with post-mortem and investigation, her college friend Chandni was behind him, trying to stay close to him as she was tired of living a fake life beside her own husband, whom she married only for money and a luxurious life. There is more to her and her husband's life than what happens in the room, but readers need to find that after reading the story. Similarly, the portrayal of the raw emotions of people after losing a person they have known even for a bit is well descriptive and realistic.
The author's writing style is engaging and hooking. One thing that might distract readers is that the humor did not land well. While reading, it appears the tone is funny, yet it would feel like serious stuff at times. But if I talk about the unfolding of the clues and the path of identifying the murderer behind the tragic death, it was smooth and gripping. There is enough drama in the story before the murderer is brought before Ravi to keep readers hooked, but at one point it becomes guessable. The author made sure the readers come to know Pooja's thoughts about her unexpected death. There are chapters where she talks to the readers about how she felt and what she felt. Her exchange with her father and husband in a life after death situation is heart warming.
Readers who wish to read a gripping whodunit crime fiction, set in a foreign land, and to know how proceedings took place in a foreign country after an Indian's sudden death, from investigation to post-mortem, there is a complete visualization of the city to allow readers to be
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