Book: What's Good About Falling
Author: Prajwal Hegde
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers India
Genre: Fiction
Ratings: 4.0/5
ISBN: 9789353024642
Number of Pages: 317
Review Date: 23rd July 2019
Review on behalf of – Self
My Ratings: 4.0/5
Plot – 3.5/5
Characters – 4.5/5
Style – 4.5/5
Climax – 4/5
Cover Page – 3/5
What's Good About Falling - is an allowance for every reader to take a sneak peak of what happens beyond the sports in a sportsman's life.
The cover of the book says most of the story. The publication being Harper Collins, the expectation of copy editing and cover page build is much greater than what it is.
Prajwal is a passionate TOI Tennis Editor, she breathes the essence of good sports. Her association with the sports and the sportsmen helped her build a detailed story line which I will give her as kudos. Not only tennis, she has walked beyond her comfort ground to detail cricket as a sport and a cricketer as well.
The story is an almost predictable one, it is about 2 young kids with similar career falling in and out of love and finally a grand comeback. That would be like most fictions. What went different here was the details of an orthodox household, day to day life of the each person who has walked into this novel. The feeling of a player, a woman, a man, a mother, a father, a coach - everyone has their own story that comes together throughout the novel.
The novel describes 2 human being behind fame and publicity, the actions that cannot be taken back, those moments of sportsman and the reasons behind an action followed by social media trolling.
The story has been knitted very nicely with easy and colloquial language.
Overall, this is a 4.5 from me. I would definitely want to read Prajwal's next authored.
