Book Review: Focus, Sam

Book Review: Focus, Sam

Author: Rohit Gore

Now that we have collaborated with the Castle of Books () expect a lot more book reviews from us at OP!

Okay so let’s begin this review in a different way altogether.

Let’s talk about what the book’s back cover says, what it has to offer:

“Sameer Sathe, a.k.a Sam, is an accident-prone young man. He is good at running his bookshop, but he is hopeless at growing up. He has fallen in and out of love with seven women in his life so far. Apart from his love life, the other problem that plagues Sam is his once-a-year accidents. After his twenty-fifth accident, a mystic tells him that he is cursed and that the next mishap will kill him. There is only one way out. One of the women Sameer fell in love with can save him. A desperate Sameer tries to reconnect with all the seven women. He realizes that he had affected their lives profoundly, and most often in a terrible way.”

Now once we came across the above written story line a couple of Bollywood movies popped up but to be frank, this surely was something new!

Something we hadn’t really encountered in the past.

As is described, the book deals with the story of Sameer Sathe, who meets with an accident every year and the only way for him to survive is find, meet and convince the women he had fallen for in his lifetime, to let him stay with them for 2 weeks for one of those women was eventually going to be his savior. (As prophesied by Babaji)

The quest that Sam undertakes, right from the start to how it ends makes an interesting read. The story has been carved beautifully; the words and the expression added by the author show that he is a very able writer. The words, the catchy one liner and a few lines that have a deep underlying meaning for which it surely gets a thumbs up from us!

Some of the lines were so good that they surely have gone in my ‘favorite lines from novels’ section! Thumbs up for that too!

Focus, Sam talks about authors, brings about various comparisons that are sometimes humorous and sometimes worth pondering over. It talks about the misfortunes of life, the weird moments when one meets an ‘ex’ and the weirder moments when you are supposed to ask a favor from them and make them trust you all over again! It talks about friendship, the undying friendship between Sam and Jai, which is something that is worth noticing. It talks about Sam’s self-realization through the course of his quest to save his own life.

The only downside that we found about the book was the way it ends but we at OP are followers of, “It’s about the journey and not the end.” And Sam’s journey is surely worth a read!

All in all, the book surely is refreshing to read and has something different to offer. We have seen a herd of Indian writers who are somehow fascinated by love stories and have written them one after another but this one is surely your go to book if you are in search of something which is different, interesting and not a love story!

We give it a 4/5 from us at OP and expect another good one from Rohit Gore in the near future.

Here is the facebook page of the book