Unns- The captivation by Sapan Saxena traces the life of Atharva Rathod and his experience with love and life. The story starts with school students discussing their plans for last year of school and one of these students is our protagonist, Atharva Rathod. In his last year at school, he falls in love with Meher Qasim, a fellow classmate who after a few months breaks his heart under pressure from her parents. Atharva, broken hearted never gets over her.
Years later, Athatva now a RAW agent goes to Germany on a secret mission where he meets Meher and all his love and feelings that have been bottled up inside him for fifteen years come up again. He is saddened again by the fact that she has moved on in life so easily and does not love him the way he still loves her. His life suddenly takes a drastic turn for worse as his mission fails and he is jailed for leaking defence information to enemy country. And then we see Atharva again after his jail term and follow his life ahead.
This is a fast paced story of unrequited love and passion and circumstances that always seem to be against Atharva. The author has created characters that have their own follies but are also passionate. Atharva is a person who falls in love passionately and never gives up on his first true love. Even after years of separation, he remembers everything she had ever said to him.
This is a book that never bores you, the story keeps moving on with Atharva balancing between his secret mission and trying to understand Meher again and how the events of Meher's life change her from the sweet girl that she was when Atharva had first met her.
The author has written a nice, easy story with good suspense and the ending has also been written well. It is fast paced but never rushed so the lead characters have been given ample space to shine. Many a times as a reader you will find yourself hoping that Atharva gets his love back and that they live happily ever after. But whether that happens or not, is something you can read Unns and find out for yourself.
P.S. I received a copy from Writersmelon in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
