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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2019

I wanted to love this book. The sample sucked me in completely - and I began to care about Mridula and about Sanjay. I bought the Kindle edition. Somewhere around the time when Sanjay starts to "make it", Ms. Murthy stopped caring enough about her characters and they became flat. She races forward to the time when Sanjay cares no more about Mridula, without ever really showing us when the rot crept in. Mridula herself becomes a sad one dimensional character and loses the good sense and strength that won Sanjay in the first place, and he loses his sympathetic impulse and warm humanity - and we are left to infer that the sole reason is success and money. In the second half, the novel devolves into one of those horrid saccharine loaded moralistic scripts from a Tyler Perry movie in which a good woman done bad by an uncaring man finds her salvation, only to lose her freedom (?) again when he "comes to his senses".

The ending provoked such annoyance from me that I almost flung my iPad across the room before coming to MY senses. Gentle Reader, the writer just wanted to end it. The disrespectful ungrateful son comes to his senses. The dismissive, emotionally abusive man "comes to his senses"

And ends it abruptly without giving one moment to what MRIDULA WANTS. BAH. (insert loud derisive sound of teeth being sucked, here).

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2014

Sudha Murthys novel isnt as good as The day I stopped drinking milk. However here she writes about Mridulas story intertwined with Sanjays life and how chasing after money without proper values can lead to messed up life. Sudha Murthy writes in a simple easy to read flow however where the book goes in tangents without connecting well is due to not enough control at editing. Some aspects of the story although relate later do not connect well initially. However if one is travelling by plane and want to finish a novel easily and read something light this is good. For people from Karnataka places would be familiar and makes it easy to read and enjoyable. What I like about her writing style is she takes you to these remote places and makes her audience involved in the story and she does not pretend to be outside of these people lives. Interesting story although theme is not original but easy to read to a large extent.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2014

Kind of like an Indian Maeve Binchy. She writes about a girl with an open honest personality who marries a man who initially was obsessed about his work but later started to value money more and thus looses his family. It was well written . It kind of reflects what society has become now in India. I will read more of this author for sure.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2016

Loved and enjoyed reading the book as it depicted same character changes its role when good time comes and also role of different characters described beautifully.It seems it is depicting story of my own Very touching and I liked the ending as this is the way life moves on....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2014

A very good book! brings out very well the changes that happen to people when they start seeing a lot of money. Amidst all this there is a person who is simple, humble and principle driven.. her agony seeing the people change has been beautifully brought o ut. Thanks to Sudha Murthy for writing novels that are very relevant to the society and that bear a message!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2017

A very practical story .Its a good read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2014

Excellent book, very well written. This novel gives an insight of human relationships and how people will show their true nature once they achieve success and money.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2015

A typical Sudha Murthy style book based simple principles of life, amazing content, very well written in simple words, message well conveyed, once you start reading you font want to stop !! All in all a great read.

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3.0 out of 5 stars My Sudha Murty's first fictional book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 8, 2019

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 I have read a lot of Sudha Murty's books but this is my first proper fictional novel.
House of Cards is 200+ page book. It's a long book. It took me a week to complete it. But it's definitely worth it.
It is very family driven, giving life lessons at very other chapter. I think with every other book your life improves for the betterment.

Now coming back to the book.
It's a story of Mridula who is young, enthusiastic, ready to chase her dreams, simple girl and Sanjay, a doctor by profession and want to make a good impact in the society through his education and experience. They eventually got married. And then the story begins, of all the hardships Mridula has to face due to change in Sanjay's behaviour towards her and the importance of money.

Racy read. Definitely there are better books than this. But every book is special in its own unique way. So it is :)

3.0 out of 5 stars My Sudha Murty's first fictional book
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 8, 2019

I have read a lot of Sudha Murty's books but this is my first proper fictional novel.
House of Cards is 200+ page book. It's a long book. It took me a week to complete it. But it's definitely worth it.
It is very family driven, giving life lessons at very other chapter. I think with every other book your life improves for the betterment.

Now coming back to the book.
It's a story of Mridula who is young, enthusiastic, ready to chase her dreams, simple girl and Sanjay, a doctor by profession and want to make a good impact in the society through his education and experience. They eventually got married. And then the story begins, of all the hardships Mridula has to face due to change in Sanjay's behaviour towards her and the importance of money.

Racy read. Definitely there are better books than this. But every book is special in its own unique way. So it is :)

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 24, 2015

5.0 out of 5 stars Meaningful learnings in simple story

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 25, 2020

The author has wonderfully conveyed the essence of life that almost every girl goes through. I, myself can relate to it very much. While reading the book, you realise how well you can see yourself in the place of Mridula and the situations that she goes through in her life is not very different from your very own. A good lesson that I learnt is have your own savings no matter how much you contribute for the family.

3.0 out of 5 stars simple

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on December 17, 2018

I found the beginning of the book as very charming. But as the story proceeds, I find the book is all about Mridula. In order to make Mridula great many (almost all) characters were shown as negative. Even with other characters being good, Mridula still could have made great person.

4.0 out of 5 stars The book is although great. I loved reading the Hindi one

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on April 10, 2017

I felt slightly cheated when I started to read the book as it is the same story as in the Hindi version of the novel Mrigthrishna written by the same author. So if anyone who has Mrigthrishna need not go for this book. The book is although great. I loved reading the Hindi one.