I'm not sure what to say about this one really. It was an okay read. I wasn't sure about both MCs, mostly Vik. His high morals made him on the one hand quite arrogant and on the other hand.. well. a bit hypocritical. I realize he's coming from a good place, and he was in a constant battle within himself yet it was too much of a contrast to his childhood best friend Gil who basically says - do what you enjoy life is short.. Lucky for Vik it's catching..
Gilbert Lawless and Vikram Pandey have been best friends for the 7 years they spent in school together until one day when they were 15 years old Gil disappeared never to return again. Vik tried to find him - as a kid - but got no answers so he convinced himself he died somewhere. Gil's story might have ended in death considering the hand he was dealt and yet he survived with a burning hatred to his "family" who left him with nothing to fend on his own once his father died and his half brother Matthew Lawes became the new head of the family, not caring for the kid his father had with the family's Indian maid.
Vik is a lawyer now, working with clients but also volunteering with Indians who have been wronged and have no means to pay for a lawyer. He enjoys his work and take pride in it, which is how he finds himself promising to find a kid named Sunil who disappeared a few weeks ago and was probably working as an escort or "model" for well paying gentlemen. It's obvious why the family asked HIM.. Going to the police will result in nothing positive for any of them. That's how he finds himself in Gil's bookshop.
Since left on his own, Gil has been resourceful as best as he could and now 13 years later he owns said bookshop on Holywell street. The notorious Holywell street more than suggests Gil isn't selling just your regular Dickens books but also pornographic books and photos of all sorts.. What can he say, it pays the bills and works wonderfully with his name and his want to disgrace even more his "family" name. Yet what he didn't expect was to finds something in common with them, or actually with his half brother Matthew - an affinity to exactly this sort of reading material.. imagine his surprise when after Matthew's funeral he is summoned to the house he grew up in to rid them of his brother's vast collection of these kind of books and photographs.
Meeting again is shocking for both of them, also realizing they work and live not that far away from each other. Both men had their REAL reasons to not/stop searching for the other and while I got Gil's reasons I'm not sure I was convinced enough on Vik's sake but it doesn't matter because now they have a reason to cooperate and see where it leads them. Not that Gil truly want to take the "job" of trying to find a kid who was probably killed somewhere on the streets if he can't be found for this length of time considering they found his nude photos with another kid who was found dead shortly after Sunil disappeared. But once Vik and Gil start working together, spending time together it's obvious how much they missed each other and how much they shared during the time they were best friends, even with the HUGE differences between them - a sort of opposite attract (or maybe likes attract considering they were the only 2 of Indian heritage in their school).
You could say there is a bit of a mystery here of finding what happened to Sunil but it's not the main issue at all. They actually get to it in a sort of round about way. It was about THEM rekindling what they shared trying to build something together on a friendship they both cherished for all these years.
Note - If you've wondered about the much sought after novel "Johnathan" we get a glimpse into the publication of this one in the short free read "Wanted, An Author" (available for download on KJ's website). the adventurous love story of Theo, the author, is found in "Wanted, A Gentleman".
Gilbert Lawless and Vikram Pandey have been best friends for the 7 years they spent in school together until one day when they were 15 years old Gil disappeared never to return again. Vik tried to find him - as a kid - but got no answers so he convinced himself he died somewhere. Gil's story might have ended in death considering the hand he was dealt and yet he survived with a burning hatred to his "family" who left him with nothing to fend on his own once his father died and his half brother Matthew Lawes became the new head of the family, not caring for the kid his father had with the family's Indian maid.
Vik is a lawyer now, working with clients but also volunteering with Indians who have been wronged and have no means to pay for a lawyer. He enjoys his work and take pride in it, which is how he finds himself promising to find a kid named Sunil who disappeared a few weeks ago and was probably working as an escort or "model" for well paying gentlemen. It's obvious why the family asked HIM.. Going to the police will result in nothing positive for any of them. That's how he finds himself in Gil's bookshop.
Since left on his own, Gil has been resourceful as best as he could and now 13 years later he owns said bookshop on Holywell street. The notorious Holywell street more than suggests Gil isn't selling just your regular Dickens books but also pornographic books and photos of all sorts.. What can he say, it pays the bills and works wonderfully with his name and his want to disgrace even more his "family" name. Yet what he didn't expect was to finds something in common with them, or actually with his half brother Matthew - an affinity to exactly this sort of reading material.. imagine his surprise when after Matthew's funeral he is summoned to the house he grew up in to rid them of his brother's vast collection of these kind of books and photographs.
Meeting again is shocking for both of them, also realizing they work and live not that far away from each other. Both men had their REAL reasons to not/stop searching for the other and while I got Gil's reasons I'm not sure I was convinced enough on Vik's sake but it doesn't matter because now they have a reason to cooperate and see where it leads them. Not that Gil truly want to take the "job" of trying to find a kid who was probably killed somewhere on the streets if he can't be found for this length of time considering they found his nude photos with another kid who was found dead shortly after Sunil disappeared. But once Vik and Gil start working together, spending time together it's obvious how much they missed each other and how much they shared during the time they were best friends, even with the HUGE differences between them - a sort of opposite attract (or maybe likes attract considering they were the only 2 of Indian heritage in their school).
You could say there is a bit of a mystery here of finding what happened to Sunil but it's not the main issue at all. They actually get to it in a sort of round about way. It was about THEM rekindling what they shared trying to build something together on a friendship they both cherished for all these years.
Note - If you've wondered about the much sought after novel "Johnathan" we get a glimpse into the publication of this one in the short free read "Wanted, An Author" (available for download on KJ's website). the adventurous love story of Theo, the author, is found in "Wanted, A Gentleman".
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Rating:
★★★ |
E-Book
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154
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Read on:
19 April 2020
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