Book review : Faith And The Beloved by Kochery C Shibu

Are you someone who trusts easily or you find it hard to trust people? 

Faith and Beloved is written by Kochery C Shibu is a thriller. 

'When you trusted ones betray you, you must learn to turn betrayal in to trust'. 

The story starts with a murder. Tony D'souza is murdered and Alice is on a run. Alice finds two underworld men reaching the flat just as she tries to escape. Well, I cannot even write the blurb and the author has written the entire thriller so intricately. 

So the story starts with a murder. And then the author lays out the characters and the story that led to the murder, chapter by chapter. So with the first two chapters the story has just begun and it doesn’t make full sense. But as one reads the following chapters everything starts making sense. As the name suggests, it is about love and treachery... and the author uses the entire plot to explain how one thing leads to another and how we all are interconnected. 

The story is thorough and well laid. The events are linked to real life events that happened in India like – Mumbai Taj hotel terror attack, demonitization. So it keeps one on the edge as well as makes one assume more than once that it might actually be a true story. 

At the beginning, the story seems confusing but as one gets to know the characters the plot becomes clear and the story line interesting. Every character is given proper respect, as in he/she gets a chapter and the chapter details on how the character is related to the plot as well as what was his/her point of view during the incident or situation. So for every incident and situation the thought of all the concerned parties is well laid out. It is like a puzzle and every chapter is a piece of the puzzle. 

The language is simple but I hate those editing misses of grammar, font style and even spellings. But yes, the storyline is amazing, engrossing and hence the glitches can be ignored. I loved it from cover to cover. It would have been a perfect 5/5 sans the editing. 

I will rate it 4.5 out of 5.