Book Review – Never Kiss Your Best Friend

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As the name of the book “Never Kiss Your Best Friend” suggests, it sounds like a love story that was never supposed to happen and went a failure. Like all the love stories out there, this one is special too. As the saying is ‘” never judge a book by its cover”, this book proves its title as perfect which doesn’t seem suitable before reading it.

This is the sequel to the best seller “Just Friends” by Sumrit Shahi, but the novel is so well written that you don’t actually need to read the sequel to connect to the characters. A good book connects you to the story and characters even if it is a continuation of another book. Sumer and Tanie or it's better if it is called Summu and Tan Tan seems so real that we can feel them like we do for our friends.

 

So, the story starts with our female freak Tanie, she is sharp-minded, witty and she believes to live the moment to its fullest. Summer is Tanie’s best friend since their childhood. He is humble, kind yet annoying at the same time. 

He really is a fun-loving guy but like everyone has a secret that nobody no about, he has a secret of himself, and after knowing that you’ll find him an even more beautiful soul.

 

No one in this world wants to be alone, we all need a companion who will hit us while being on the wrong side yet hold us in arms to comfort us and this is what Tanie has in Sumer. They both came in touch after long five years and the story took so many turns from here. 

They were the best person to each other once but what led to their losing touch with their crazy friendship, they kiss each other eventually to understand what was that about, they can dance in their nightclothes, they can even weirdest things together and still not feel ashamed as they are best friends, what made it complicated later was a kiss.

 

After that time skip, we saw both of them were busy in their fulfilled life but a part of both of them was always linked. Sumer is the one out of both who understood what actually that is? 

He tried everything to make Tanie realizes his feelings and she was still confused about her feelings and the reason for the emptiness he feels always. Things happened and there was a day Tanie accepted her feelings but it was too late for both of them because Sumer was in a war against Cancer.

 

The most beautiful part of the book is their friendship, a boy-girl friendship growing into a man-woman friendship. There’s a phrase used so many times throughout the book “He smiled, she smiled and problem solved”, this same phrase has so many different emotions from starting to the end of the novel. In the end, Sumer left for the other world but his love was this pure that he wished his TanTan to find a new love and fall for it again.

 

The author must have lived his characters Sumer and Tanie in his life otherwise how can a story be this real that makes you cry for the fictional character. More than a story his characters were triumphant with their friendship and it was just a pure friendship like a pearl in an ocean.

Buy this book here: Never Kiss Your Best Friend

Written By - Dewang Singh

Edited By - Anamika Malik