Not Worth Living For | Book Review

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Not Worth Living For
Author: Shreyan Laha
Pages - 172



                ‘Not Worth Living For’ is a story that revolves around two girls one is ‘Ishita Singh’ who is a student of St. Pierce’s college and the other is ‘Shweta’ who wakes up all of a sudden on an unknown planet called Isthenope. While Ishita is suffering in the hospital Shweta herself doesn’t what has happened and how she ended up on this unknown planet. Shweta gets some of the glimpse of her life on earth but she is not sure what has exactly happened with her. They both are living their lives in completely different world and there lies a dark secret. Will Ishita survive the harsh brutality of life? Will Shweta discover what and exactly how she ended up on this unknown planet? Will they discover what the dark secret is? To know all of this read Not Worth Living For.  

My Opinions:

The plot is very different than the usual sci-fi dystopian stories we usually read. I loved how the author has created this fictional world of Isthenope and how things work there. The author has described the world very well and I also liked how the author has dedicated a whole chapter describing the new world and the habitants that live there. Also we get to see how people how people there have distributed work and each person does what has been allocated to them. Loved the whole world of Isthenope and would have actually liked to visit it if that was possible. I would have loved if there would have been a map of Isthenope.

The characters are well developed and we get to see how they all are dealing with their problems. I somehow felt that there were too many characters and not all were done justice but the main characters were very well developed. I was a bit confused at times and had to re-read to get a gist of what actually happened.

The language is fluid but at times the readers might have to look for the meaning of some words. The pace of the story was okay.

The cover page of the book could have been better.

Overall, the story was good and I would surely recommend it to someone who’s looking for read a thrilling sci-fi and dive altogether in a different world.

My Rating: 4/5

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