Book Review – Max: Revenge is the Confession of Pain by Suman Vishal

Max is a light thriller novel that intertwined themes like family bonding and drama, craving for a child, silent revenge, and love for animals. The extent of the storyline is large and it features main characters like Jaya, Jayaram, Ajay, Kishore, Nidhi and few more auxiliary ones. The story shuttles between India, Australia, and Europe.

As the novel opens up, we get acquainted with Jaya and her foster parents, who soon died in an accident. Jaya hails from Mysuru, she resides in a palace with all worldly luxuries – servants and collection of vintage care. Maybe she is pampered beyond understanding the limitations of life and its vagaries. Her characterization has tinge of madness, she is self-centered, but at the same time expects love from her husband Jayaram, an Australian businessman.

Initially much part of the novel focuses on their lifestyle, showcasing their ego and ideological clashes. After marriage Jaya remains disturbed…due to the busy life of Jayaram. Soon she flies to Australia. There Nidhi, a tour guide, becomes her friend and they both explore the country while sharing pain and joy. But before that Jaya and Jayaram tried to adopt a child, however, they were unsuccessful due to some internal conspiracies and obstacles were created in their business.

The novel takes unexpectedly turn and becomes laden with thriller elements when Nidhi disappears. She was becoming a surrogate mother for Jaya. Jaya goes mad for her upcoming child; she wants to find out where is Nidhi gone and why? As the events unfold, silent dark events unfold that result in death of Jayaram and his brother Ajay…but Nidhi is still missing. The twister of conspiracy looks beyond the apprehension of police inspector Kishore. However, as the tale of Jaya’s family looks firm in the narrative, a dog’s story pops out. In later part of the novel it gets out that sometimes not all revenges are done for humans, at times it could be actuated for animals as well. You will be surprised to know the ending of the novel. By the way, who is Max – an animal or human?

This thriller novel is different, right from beginning to end. Begins as general account on life of Jaya, it entraps everyone just for one revenge and one longing. Suman Vishal writes with an easy-to-understand narrative, his language usage is good, neither direct nor tumultuous. He begins with something else but ends up with unexpected twists of subplots. The novel is an interesting read if you are looking for an unconventional thriller novel.

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