Ratings: 4/5⭐
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 95
Format: Kindle
Publication date: 1st August 2020
Publisher: Flipping Pages
“We spend today thinking about tomorrow; we keep learning from our past mistakes to plan a future. What if we realize there is no tomorrow?”
Summary of The Hour of Life
A man named Aryan who’s a struggling writer, meets a popular publisher, Alina and they fall in love with each other. They have a baby girl named Jeeva but unfortunately, they get separated. It is fourteen years later when Jeeva is on her death bed that Aryan meets his daughter for the first time when she’s in ICU. He gets to spend just ONE hour with her.
Jeeva’s life has always been about her mother and on meeting her father for the first time, she asks him many questions brimming with innocence and curiosity. In that one hour, Aryan tells Jeeva everything he can about “life” and hence we get the title of the book: “The Hour Of Life”.
Personal Reviews on The Hour of Life
The Hour of Life book is a really short read but is close to my heart because of the father-daughter relationship which has been so vividly described; how a father wants to instill all he knows into their child, does everything for their best, and wants them to be safe and happy always. The book is nothing like I’ve read before for it has a unique concept. The daughter, Jeeva asks multiple questions and the father, Aryan replies to all of them patiently by reciting a poem or a short story.
I feel the dialogue and the scenarios could have been a bit more exaggerated and dramatic but have been kept short and simple. I like the curious nature of 14 y/o Jeeva and the struggles of parenting that have been shown. Concludingly, I liked the book and will recommend it!