Can love happen twice by Ravinder Singh

"Can love happen twice" by Ravinder Singh. This book is published by Penguin Random House India  in 2013 and has 224 pages. 

After 'I too had a love story' (See my book review - April 2014), Ravin's story continues. After coming out of shock of Khushi's death, he meets another girl, Simar, in Belgium. Inevitably they fall in love. 

Can Love happen twice? Will Ravin be able to live someone else? Will they marry? Is it a happy ending?

To read and understand this book you must have read the first one titled 'I too had a love story'. This story begins where the previous ended. Ravin's tentativeness about falling in love again. Simar's carefree nature. Their courtship and their life in Belgium makes the story readable. However the turn it takes as the discussion on marriage starts is a bit baffling. Ravin is flabbergasted. 

Author has given a twist to the story but it rather comes as a surprise. There are no hidden hints or clues about Simar's behavior in the earlier part of story. That's why it appears unconvincing. Hard to buy. 

Author has used his succesful formula of distant love i. e. Blossoming of love through phone. He has extended it to fights and reason for a split. It's a story of selfless love by one of the two. 

I wonder why author ended the book, the way he did. It sounds artificial. Though the idea of radio show was good , what a radio show can do, a telephone call could have done as well. 

Although the story is narrated well, one can not help comparing it with the first book. And this one pales in comparison. It does not rouse the emotions in the reader like the first book. 

Not a must read.