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What if your breakup wasn’t the end of the story, but the beginning of a psychological battlefield? @perpetuallywrong ‘s ‘Shadow’ dares to ask that question and lures you into the wreckage that follows. It is a tale of slow, smouldering exploration of post-love warfare dressed as a psychological thriller. And in its tension-filled pages, love curdles into obsession, apology into manipulation, and memory into a loaded weapon. Set in a bustling city of Mumbai, Shadow flits between two timelines, letting the reader sift through the debris of Harsh and Nikita’s relationship. The dual structure is not just aesthetic—it mirrors the inner dissonance of characters caught between who they were and who they’ve become. Bapat doesn’t give us clear heroes or villains - he keeps things vague and messy. Harsh, who seems calm and quiet, might not be as harmless as he appears. Nikita, who comes off as emotional and impulsive, could actually be the one in control. You’re never sure who’s right, and that’s what makes the story so gripping. The emotional choreography is masterful. Each flashback is a breadcrumb, leading to a twist that flips the story’s moral axis without theatrics. The writing is sleek, cinematic, and purposefully restrained, fitting for a story that relies more on psychological unravelling than plot gimmicks. Yet, the book does meander at times, its emotional loops mimicking the exhausting patterns of toxic relationships. But perhaps that, too, is deliberate. After all, real heartbreak rarely offers clean trajectories. In a literary landscape saturated with second-chance romances, Shadow is a bold, unsettling detour. It doesn’t ask whether love survives. It asks: What survives us when love doesn’t? And that is what this mind-bending book is all about! Go, give it a read.

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This post was published on 02nd July, 2025 by Khyati on her Instagram handle "@bookish.fame (Khyati | Book Blogger)". Khyati has total 30.4K followers on Instagram and has a total of 1.3K post. Khyati receives an average engagement rate of 0.52% per post on Instagram. This post has received 12 comments which are lower than the average comments that Khyati gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile.