In the cover is something that all teenage girls would love
to see and which would surely act as a catalyst in attracting girls of all age
groups to itself giving the readers a very chirpy vibe from it. Specially the
title of the book ‘Operation Mom’ and the sub-title of it ‘How I got my mother
a life… and a man’ by Reenita Malhotra Hora gives in a very enthralling and
perky side of the content of the book making the readers eager to read the
book.
According to the back cover- When you try to set your mom’s life right. Be prepared to have your own
turned upside down. Seventeen-year-old Ila Isham has serious problems. There’s the
angst of being an Ali Zafar groupie, for one. Then there are the extra layers
of fat she owes to her Punjabi roots. Add to this, parents who have separated;
an enthusiastic best friend whose idea of variety is dating three guys at the
same time; and her mom’s best friend, Aunty Maleeka, whose good intentions and
savvy ways throw up more problems than solutions- and Ila’s got her hands quite
full. When her mother flips out over her plans to stalk Ali Zafar, Ila decides
she has had enough and sets out to create a few distractions to keep her mom
busy. With a little help from BFF Deepali, Aunty Maleeka and Dev of the
inviting chocolate-pool eyes, Ila will have to brave everything from Lagaan.com
and OKCupid profiles to meeting handlebar-moustache colonels and middle-aged
psychos, as she tries to set up the perfect parent trap for her unsuspecting
mother.
When the book started on the note of the conversation
between Ila and Deepali, I was truly transferred to my school times when I used
to do the same thing! What to do and what not to do in the summer vacations
have always been a matter of huge discussions between me and my friends and seeing
Ila and Deepali do the same made my day at first glance of the book.
What I felt after reading the first few chapters was that
the authoress was trying to unnecessarily stretch them but when the actual
‘Operation Mom’ commenced in the book, I started to like the book from then on
and the book, in itself picked up speed on its own which was same throughout
the book.
The authoress has done a good job in penning down the
feelings and the thoughts that go on in a seventeen year old teenage girl’s
mind and heart to perfection. The book has shown friendship to a wonderful
level. How a child sets her mom up with blind dates after herself testing them
on online dating sites is worth reading.
What I felt bad about the book was that at times it felt too
girlish as if it wasn’t made for boys to read. At places, there had been places
where I had to read and re-read a line till I could grasp the literal meaning
to it which might be a problem regarding the pace at which the story was
moving.
The grammar at places were also a bit shaky (at least that’s
what I felt) which might be a bit turn-off to the readers. Being a girl, I
liked the way it had been written and the end was very cute too (if that’s the
word to define it) All in all, wanting to read an even better version of this
book, I would like to give it 4 out of 5.
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