Book Review: Truce by Risha Chaurasia
Truce is a captivating teen novel with lucid narration by the teen author Risha. The story is about youth and yearning for more through the life journey of five teens like Tiya, Ron, Udit, Cayra, and Edi. As the story unfolds, the readers will come to understand how teenage and preadolescence is critical in creating a solid foundation for maturation and the bumpy road of change ahead.
From the classroom to the playground to social responsibilities, Truce’s five youthful characters and their interactions with others provide a glimpse into the early years of adolescence. As a result, readers will benefit from a fresh look at the inner workings of five teens’ thinking, social interaction, and idiosyncrasies. Above all, teenage fun is juxtaposed with intense moments of challenges that life throws at them from time to time. Getting into their futility in friendship and social and personal challenges will provide a new perspective to readers as how the teens in today’s worlds are placed. Their lives and ambitions and hidden aspirations do matter. A close look reveals that readers will get a first-hand look at all the young characters. The characters, setting, and pacing in this work is altogether new.
The free flowing dialogues and subtle placement of humour at each light and intense situation make this novel highly readable and suggests that the author has message to the generation but not in a melancholy dramatic way. It is rather straight and shedding limelight on aspects like true friendship, self-discovery and fighting the life’s most dreaded battle with true friends.
Managing so many characters with almost no irregularities at such a tender age suggest the promising author in Risha. This is her second novel and almost she looks poised for something higher and longer in the literature world. The concurrent USP of the book is that the author did not let her characters go astray, they were the soul of the story with total conviction.
From young to old, naïve to veterans, the novel is for all people despite having differences in their genre preference. In the times to come it could be that much-sought-after novel for millennial and their parents. Good novel by all means of standard!
