You started with the renovation of the sheesh mahal,
than you took me to the peaceful dargah,
and now you brought me out on the streets of Lucknow,
where they serve the REAL Awadhi delicacies!
Just like you started at a glimpse,
than opened the door to their secrets with the key,
and now a million unconventional dates,
which end with a MIND-BLASTING kiss!
I dont know if you are pulling each layer off the mysterious A & K, or adding more on?
Regardless,
how do I NOT be Seduced?
and there is SO MUCH more than just all this, that has me feeling this way.
(I cant believe how much I missed in my first read!)
But before I begin about that, I am going to conveniently ignore all the questions sprouting in my brain about the mystery because I know S isn't around to solve them! And even when she is, she ne'er answers, KDHI! And TG's lips are sealed, KDHIx2. So yes I am going to ignore just what Kay means when she thinks talking about paintings was wading into dangerous territory? Or why everyone is so so concerned about Arnav being out in the garden during broad daylight?! Especially when you still maintain this story is nothing like anything else you have written before!
Hang on! There is a persistent knock on my brain door, and it has persuaded my brain to type: is the genre - Supernatural?
So yes where was I? Ok so much more than just all this...
I love that Raizada is fast enough to get to the lunch invitation, but not just for the prospect of the date itself, but as an acknowledgment to all the ongoing rabba-veys between these two! When you first started this story about glimpses, I couldnt help think was it all just about the physics? But just after two chapters I realise, what they share is much more than that! The seduction lies not only in the attraction, but being a window to each others minds and feelings, like they were meant to meet and all! To someone like Anjali and Aman this might feel sudden. And for a moment I couldnt help worry, what if this is merely an infatuation for Arnav, a way to ignore and deal with what happened in the last year, and go with whatever Kay was offering..and her intriguing personality. But than I remind myself about the scene at the Khasta Kachori place where he can't seem to see the disappointment in her eyes.
I love that you keep it interesting and non-predictable, whatever conversation they share is so so refreshing. Like her saying "No" in the beginning, than sleeping on it and coming up with this MADD idea of being a lunch time tour-guide, the next morning. His walking out of that kachori place and asking to be called "Arnavji". Yes Yes I hear S going, hell yeeea! And than you make her say those things after the kiss...Kya bolun ab?
Than there are two scenes that really remind me of the show. The first one where she tells him how people in Lucknow really do things...it reminded me of the time A spent in her house, and had an outburst about its inadequacy. The other when she is trying to not make him look at the statues behind him...it reminded of the time when Kay was playing with those little girls and trying to hide them from him! And dan over-phanatic ipk phanki dun š
What do I even say about the enclosed garden? It definitely sounded like a seductive place with overgrown green of the plants and the beautiful curved marble.
There was that memory before he enters the garden. Was he the "bhai" or was his brother? Whoever it was, whatever they shared sounded like fun and a beautiful relationship...
What intrigued me a LOT was the fact that A shared so much about his and Kay's outing with Aman..and how open he is about asking where K is to every second person or running after her. Nothing to hide. Very interesting.
And Aman...do I spy a leetle crush on Anjaliji?!
I love that every tiny glimpse, word, scene, setting, has a feeling behind it...that I may or may not quite understand at this point. And hence find it incredibly hard to describe how I feel about it all, and its becoming frustrating, I have read the chapter 5 times by now, and its been more than 3 hours since I am typing this. I am giving up, sorry š!
But was she planning to run away before he kissed her? Or was the kiss a trigger to it all?
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