[Book Review] “Life is what you make it” By Preeti Shenoy

Life is what you make it is the story of Ankita Sharma, who turns 18 and has a boyfriend from school. She is young, good-looking, and has many friends and boys swooning over her. Ankita lives in Cochin, Kerala, with her parents and a younger brother. She goes to a girls’ college named St. Agnes, where she lives her dream college life. She is excellent at her studies, participates in every event, and is at the top of her class. Ankita has numerous girlfriends who support her as she does all these things.

“Life is what you make it” shows all the fun of the girls’ college, like girls’ unity, how girls help each other, and even the smallest and awkward things, which you can’t say if you were in a coed system, you can say easily in front of girls.

Everything was normal; Ankita, the protagonist, was living a happy and normal life, but you don’t have control over what life throws at you, as happiness and grief are the two sides of the coin called life. So, in the third year of her B.com degree, something happens that completely changes her life, and to that extent, she finds herself in a mental health hospital after six months.

Will Ankita be able to get her life back? What will she do? To know more, read this gripping and enthralling tale.