Finally who's living?. Review on We the Living - Ayn Rand

This is one of the best books I have ever read so far. A gripping story that’s well told. The characters are also developed so well that you cant help falling in love with them. Each one so different yet so alike because they all want to live life they way they like. The book revolves around the 3 central characters Kira, Leo and Andrei set up at the time of the Russian revolution. But interestingly it is not a story about the revolution, which would have made it increasingly boring. If I go on to explain why I love this book so much is maybe because I can relate very much to Kira. She has strong opinions about everything and does what she believes in but she is flexible to the extent that she knows how to make the two ends meet in a crisis situation unlike Leo who is stubborn and refuses to give in and suffers finally. Leo is a turn on in the beginning of the book but remains very little of that towards the end of the book. You just cant help but feel sorry for Andrei who is so much in love with Kira but cant get enough of her. Kira also has mixed emotions about the two men in her life. Most often the man who excites you the most is not the man you should spend the rest of your life with is a favorite mistake of the womenfolk. The book has one of my favorite lines…that is when Kira and Andrei discuss about life. Kira asks Andrei if he believes in God and he says no. Kira agrees with him and goes on to explain that if she had asked “do you believe in life?” people would not understand what she meant and it would hence be a bad question. If you believe so much in God it would mean you have bestowed so much to destiny that you believe that nothing could alter what you could do with your life. Life lies in the hands of someone higher above you that you feel that your own life is not in your hands. Not that I fully agree with what Kira says or don’t believe in God but the thoughts have been put across so beautifully that it nearly influences me to believe in those lines. The book however ends in a very depressing note and even after finishing the book the thoughts still linger.