I hate you! Yes I simply do...I hate all those who force me to take a leap and harbour feelings for abraded beings of the night. And I hate them more for the fact that they keep me hooked in a manner that is most tantalising and almost irresistible! The last time that someone had messed up my head this bad was Allan Cubitt with his Paul Spector in a series called The Fall. I was praying like a devout Catholic for the well being of a serial killer and rapist and here you are screwing my mind to do the same for an assassin!!
Not fair Nimmi...not fair at all! I am a good girl, I went to a Convent where Sisters taught me not to harbour sinister thoughts and Gaby boy is evoking some high end forbidden fantasies! I'll be damned and I also fear that I will never be salvaged...so much for loving Judas err, Gabriel!
I am a nomad much like you...to stick around at one place is really not my cup of lassi...so while roaming around I stumbled upon this Gaby boy and yes there was no turning back, not even when I was writing my exams which are pretty important you see. Anyways bundling all that aside, there is something religiously sinister about Gabriel and no its not just his name that ticks you, maybe something way beyond that. The opening of the novel was not grim at all. Instead it was neatly cultivated and maybe that is exactly what pulled my curious cat out of her slumber. When you said in initial lines that it's a dark fiction my mind drew up images of Gabriel being a victim of some sort of savage uprising but I was balled over seeing that I had been siding with a completely wrong notion of things. He isn't a victim that I had initially suspected him to be rather he is the predator that leaps in that one fatal move and ends with a rattling intensity of victory!
I am a literature student + biology student( a complicated, messed up thing please don't investigate!!) and characterisation is like a sacrament that is not to be messed with and I love you so much more for that. I hate when evil or grey is justified. I hate when they are given a sad whip to self flagellate. I believe in choosing things for yourself and Gabriel comes across as someone who has chosen a dark life for himself and that too without a stench of remorse of any kind. What I love even more is that duniya-jaaye-bhaad-mein attitude! Oh God! Why can't you make men like him in reality??
Another brilliant aspect of this is the colour play! While Gabriel is seen lurking in shadows, Swara dwell in a different hue...such a stark contrast! And how well it fits into the story! I am holding a few cards close as far as Swara is concerned. She really is an alluring trouble, a deadly siren and a congenial idiot all rolled into one! And thank heavens she is not the self-loathing woman that we are presented with on the show, this one is more on the edge. Me likey!! The other thing that I like is the fact that she isn't forcing her ideas on this man, all she wants is a clear cut way out all the while playing friends with benefits. Not bad...not bad at all. But what surprised me the most was her sheer innocence, I could see why Gabriel was so baffled and taken aback with that key ingredient that makes the most of this petite yet formidable Swara Bose. I am really pulling my hairs in excitement for I want to see the meandering rivers that creates such an odd yet wonderful personality who is giving Gabriel a thorough run for his faculties! I really love their encounters, which are surprisingly pleasant...at times it seems like Gaby sweetie is dealing with a temperamental four year old!
I am 31 chapters late but mann-mein-hai-vishwaas-poora-hai-vishwaas that I'll make a detailed comment on each one of them! Also I have to continue my tryst with my dentist so yeah a painful new year is seemingly ahead!
Anyways happy new year to you! And thank you for wishing me luck for my exams...they were GREAT!!
P.S. Aren't you Candy Lemon from Happenstance?? I can swear I have read this on that blog!!
