Club You To Death by Anuja Chauhan | Book Review (spoiler free!)
hi fam and welcome to a new video today
i am going to be filming a book review
and i am really hoping that i don’t get as many
hate comments as i did for the last one because
i just — i i don’t — i don’t want that anyway i am
here to review Club You to Death by Anuja Chauhan
this is actually finally my first ever Anuja Chauhan.
i’ve been meaning to read her for a while now
a lot of my friends love her writing and have
loved her books and Anuya and Sharin actually
call her the Chetan Bhagat that we deserve
and after reading this book i kind of see what
they mean. Her writing from the very beginning
disarmed me with this charm. In the first chapter
itself I got to hear words like choot or ghanta or
BT(bad trip) which just reminded me of things that like
i usually say so it was very clued into like gen z
minell minell — millennial yes millennial lingo.
and yeah oh wait but wait i haven’t told you
what the book is about so um this is i think Anuja
Chauhan’s sixth book and all of the other previous
books have been romance books primarily so
murder sort of situation. So the book is set about
this murder that takes place in this clubhouse
or like this club which is like a very fancy
gymkhana in Delhi and essentially this very
famous and beloved trainer dies or is murdered
and then the cops are called in to kind of
solve it and the cop who comes in is this ACP
Bhavani who refers to himself in the ‘royal we’
and like looks at his knuckles and radiates like
calmness and sympathy (??) and then this other guy
who’s a subordinate who is Padam Kumar or PK who’s
sort of like this chauvinistic but very delhi sort
of fellow who’s looking for a bride and they
are called in and asked to basically solve this
murder super quickly because this murder actually
happened on the eve of a very important day for
the club which is the elections. So basically
through this book you get to see a bunch of
people and their perspectives. You get to see
the suspects, you get to see the people working the
case. So you also get to see this perspective
from this one guy called Akash of Kashi who is a
lawyer who also gets involved and helps kind
of solve the murder. There is his ex flame whose
name is Bambi, there is a bunch of other people
and it’s just very very interesting
and why i say is interesting is because
these people in the book are not very
likable and they are also very very real
like we know that there are people like this in
south delhi who talk like this who behave like
this who have these sort of thoughts um and i feel
like she did such a brilliant job of like bringing
this to life. so like i was constantly reminded
of um these comedians called Kusha Kapila and
Dolly Singh — I don’t know if you know them but if
you don’t I will link their like profiles/videos down
below — you should definitely check them out they
do these characters of sorts of these south delhi
women and girls and it was just on point
because one of the girls actually in the book says
“i am so dhanya, i am so blessed” who
says i am so dhanya i’m so blessed?? but
i am sure someone actually says this so yeah who
does to Anuja Chauhan for actually like bringing
this flavor into the books and all of these
characters are different shades of sexist, racist
classist, colorist, just all the “ists” – but it’s
also just very true of society especially in delhi.
i found myself laughing, rolling my eyes and
just also trying to like guess and conjecture
who possibly could be the murderer what was
possibly going on and hey i have to give it
to myself i figured out who the killer was in
like chapter four but i didn’t quite know
why. like the ‘whydunit’ but i figured out the
‘whodunit’ that’s cool but yeah i i don’t
know i didn’t have any like hypothesis per se i
just had like this feeling in my head that this
person is shady, so i just feel like happy and
proud. And as i said earlier all the characters in
this book were extremely unlikable except perhaps
ACP Bhavani who from the very beginning is made
to look like this very astute, knowledgeable,
sympathetic, empathetic character. All the rest
of them were just pure as*hOl*s in my honest opinion
with like shades of grey like everyone
you know — essentially what Anuja Chauhan
did through this book was essentially show
the mirror to society and make you see that how
these people are because these people were vile
and disgusting but also this was very real and
very true. you got to also see various aspects
of society like how the political world
is being shaped in our country or
what’s happening with news media outlets or
even like how people are ‘pseudo-woke’ but inside
they just have the wrong intentions or just end
up doing the wrong things or they say something
outside but then actually feel and do something
completely different. and yeah i just thought
that she brought up these very interesting topics
that you kind of thought over as well. however,
apart from all of these great things there were
also a lot of things that troubled me i felt like
there were a lot of inconsistencies and like
plot holes in this book. i also felt like
just things that happened in this book i don’t
know if it would actually happen in real life like
for example if a policeman actually does take
the victim’s phone back home and then it’s like
scrolling on it and to check out stuff on the
phone of the victim who has died while like on
his bed before he goes to sleep?? i don’t know — that
just felt really really weird to me. it was also
sort of frustrating to kind of see everyone else
put the pieces together after you had kind of
put the pieces together but i do have to say
though that the end was something that i was
not expecting. i mean as i told you i had
guessed ‘whodunit’ but ‘whydunit’ was
something i definitely had not figured out
and i do not think that it’s actually very easy
to figure out whodunit – it was actually like
it she just kept giving you these hints of like
this one could be the murderer or this one could
be the murderer and in the end it actually was
like kind of like a homage to agatha christie
wherein the lead detective kind of brings all
the suspects and the people together
into the room and like tells you about how
the case unfolded and what happened and there are
things where he’s like oh and he also solved the
mystery of something else that happened with some
other person and that person may look like ‘oh this
person could be the killer’ but no not really it’s
this other person ‘let me solve this part of the
like something that happened’. so yeah it just
was like a very Agatha Christie-esque sort of
thing which i appreciated because it just took
me back. but yeah it was that sort of
end if you get what i mean. in the end i gave this
book a three stars i really enjoyed the journey
however i felt like there were a little too many
inconsistencies or just small things that i got
annoyed with for me to kind of let go of that
but yeah i would definitely recommend this book
still i think that it is a great like time pass
read it’s a book that you can definitely read
before or after a really heavy read or if you’re
like get feeling slightly slumpy or whatever
this would be actually a great way for
you to get out of that slump because it’s very
fast-paced and it’s very very desi so yeah
maybe that could help. but yes please keep in mind
it has some very annoying characters so
i think that’s it for my book review.
i have tried to give absolutely zero spoilers
so i hope that this was good for you.
let me know if you want to discuss this book you
can always DM me on my instagram if you have
read this book or like comment down below
with your thoughts if you have read this book
let me know if you plan to read this book
also this was my first ever Anuja Chauhan so
um i do definitely plan to read more of her
because i want to see what her like romance novels
are like as well so if you have a suggestion of
like a book that i should start off with let me
know in the description — i mean not comments. whar
is my head okay basically i’ve just been feeling
migraine-y and that’s why i have the dark lipstick
because i’m feeling like dark on the inside you know
what i mean? but yeah that’s it for now
i will see you in my next video okay bye
