THE GIRL IN ROOM 105

Author: Chetan Bhagat
Book: The Girl in Room 105.
Genera: Thriller Suspense

Chetan Bhagat is not among my favorite author. This is my first book of him. Well lying on a bed lazily and scrolling up and down to find something special to read on my Kindle the synopsis of the book attracted me.

The story is about a girl names Zara Lone who was murdered in the IIT Delhi campus on her own hostel room and surprising on her birthday. Before dying, she called her ex-boyfriend Keshav which make him the prime suspect of her murder. Keshav makes his life’s mission to solve her murder mystery with his friend Saurabh.

The story has some kind of suspense but like any other Chetan Bhagat’s book, it’s also filled with Hindi abusive language, objectifying women and their choice. The author talks about how people see Muslims especially Kashmiri Muslims, hate for the Indian army in Kashmir, how people of Kashmir did not see themselves as a part of India, and a policeman abusing their power. The part where a normal boy change to a terrorist (glorifying jihad) and a father forces Hindu boy to change religion for marrying her daughter which make this novel a more commercialized movie.

As a whole, it is something you watch on a big-screen commercial movie based on a novel or you can say this book is written to give Bollywood another featured film.
Overall it is OK to read. Not too bad. Nothing great either. You can guess the killer from the beginning but I wouldn’t say Chetan Bhagat has failed badly in writing thriller suspense.