Generally, every thriller starts with a murder. Some clue is got. The breadcrumbs are followed. A motive is identified. And the culprit is nabbed. The success is when the author keeps the reader connected to the book, either by the story or by the way it is written. This novel is simple in English, and what kept me attached to the book is its story. There are a couple of love, couple of murders and a few friendships. The plot beautifully weaves a beautiful story with these incidents. Even those incidents that looked aloof, sit in its appropriate place in the story towards its end. Simple, connected and beautiful. Someone could actually try a movie based on this story.
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I have different set of standards when I read and write.As a reader, the standards are pretty high. I read majorly for the story and nothing else. On that note,The Fall was a masala mix.It had a plot, murders, clues, puzzle, romance, investigation and all. To me, most importantly,  it was fast paced and an easy read.Yes, to an extent. It also has its own flaws. But this is only Vijay’s first novel.The things I liked in the book. He took great interest in this book and wrote this in a very short span of time. He completed it and published it.The cover design was refreshing.The place of the events in the book, being in France gives a grand feel to the book. It starts with a murder.  So you are hooked up to the story from page one.
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I was intrigued by the title ‘Fall’. To me ‘The Fall’ by Albert Camus has been a bible and it was only natural that my attention was drawn to the book. In the first page the author defines ‘Fall’ as – to descend freely by the force of gravity, to hang freely or to drop oneself to a lower level. But I presume that the author decided on this title from his own prose-poetry ‘Autumn Leaves’ which is central to the theme of his novel. Autumn has always been associated with introspection and in poetry is associated with melancholy. As the leaves wither away and the tree stands stripped of all its grandeur to be slowly covered by the snow of winter,one is overcome by a feeling of sorrow at the process of aging and approaching death. The book starts in early spring and ends with the onset of winter and in that sense moving through all the stages of love, passion, glory, decay and death.
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