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Wednesday 17 May 2017
It Ain't College, It's War! (Book 1 of 'It Ain't' Trilogy) by  Subhodeep Mukherjee

Publication Year- 2017
Publication- Notion Press
Genre- Fiction
Pages- 386
Format- Paperback/Kindle




                                                               Blurb              

What happens when an engineering college fresher: 

• confronts his violent seniors on the first day of ragging? 

• tries to woo a beautiful senior who has a nasty boyfriend? 

• is heart-broken when his past causes his break-up with the girl he loves? 

• goes boozing for the first time? 

• is involved in a bloody inter-hostel rivalry with dire consequences? 

In his debut novel, It Ain't College, It's War! (Book 1 of the It Ain't trilogy), Subhodeep Mukherjee tells the story of Rahul Arora, an outspoken Delhi boy with a devil-may-care attitude that always gets him in trouble. 

Amidst the politically charged atmosphere of his college and his many adventures, Rahul seeks true love, friendship and a job. Will he manage to find balance in his life? Will he make peace with his teachers, classmates, seniors and father and find what he is looking for or will his attitude get the better of him? 

Loosely based on true events and also touching on various social issues, this book explores the meaning of love, friendship and career as seen through the eyes of the narrator and protagonist, Rahul Arora.



                                                               My Review


Listening to engineering college spicy stories is one of my favorite topics maybe because I am very keen to know what actually happens. Does what’s shown in the movies are true? Or really the colleges are haunted? And how can we skip the main tagline attached- ragging. One of my friends mentioned me about this very book and I couldn’t say no to it. I’m really thankful to author for sending me a copy of this book.

It’s Ain’t a College, It’s a war is a story of a boy named Rahul Arora who gets through into a government medical college in New Delhi. Rahul who has set of doldrums roommates and later face encounter with the college hostel head and faced the worst in his first ragging tasks.  Book is actually a story which reflects a pure engineering college story which includes ragging, love, rejection, hating the plot against rival hostlers and much more. Rahul who’s the protagonist has tried to entertains his readers in many way, succeed in few and got monotonous at times.

 Rahul who was one sour eye for everyone in the college but later turn to be favorite of many. I’m many youngsters can relate to Rahul. I like his character building. I really like hostel names which were kept after great scientists and then I really enjoyed part struggled faced by fresher’s to their fresher party where they were treated  nicely. 

Friendship, love, betrayal, college life and war within students all these elements will be found in this book. Characters will entertain you but somewhere they will disappoint you. Plot was interesting but gets boring in some places.  Another drawback of the book was editing flaws. Whereas book title and cover did a great job and goes very well with the story-line.

Overall book is one time read, you can read  it in free time.

I would rate the first installment of the book 3/5 stars, expecting to read the sequel who would be really amazing.


Reviewed by Aditi Srivastava

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