- The story follows a man who has to decide between becoming a better person when he falls in love and maintaining his two-facedness that has always brought him benefits.
- Shape of the Sun was written every day for seven months while the author was in college.
- Almost all the main characters are wealthy - and that was deliberate to navigate the struggle not to thrive within the lines.
- The story explores themes of love as unraveling and family, as well as real social issues in terms of dynastic rot, masculinity as performance and collapse, and class contempt masquerading as elitism.
- Many characters are unreliable narrators, whether consciously or not. The book floats their biases.
- The villain of this book is not just a villain for the sake of it. The book explores different perspectives, even when the outcome is not justified.
- The main couple is in love and recognize this attraction in the first ten chapters.
- The book was written when the author had just gotten into reading the very direct and dry tone of English-translated Chinese novels.
- Having the main lead be extremely self-aware of his shortcomings was a subversive choice when leads are seen with filters.
- Readers can anticipate interesting plots, twists, and turns, especially when it comes to linking each character together and their backstories.
Paula Omokhomion is a Master of Public Policy student at the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, though she’s fairly certain that won’t be forever. She holds a B.S. in Public Health Nutrition from UNC Chapel Hill, where she also minored in Creative Writing (Fiction) and graduated with highest honors for her 120-page thesis novella, New Age Taffeta.
Paula developed her skills and love
for writing fiction in a very, very interesting Nigerian boarding
school, where the lack of television meant she had to invent
entertainment for everyone else. She loves reading manhwa, watching
Indian TV dramas, listening to music, and writing short stories.When not
doing any of those or in the classroom handling R code, she’s refining
her LinkedIn or taking Instagram selfies.
She lives in California with her family, including her two fellow triplets, and is currently dreaming of a future PhD in public health—and maybe another novel.
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In a world where novels defy conventions and heroes defy expectations, Shape of the Sun dares to ask: What if the one at the center isn’t kind? What if no one is misunderstood?
What does it mean to be the hero or the villain?
Beware: this is not a love story. The author just likes meta-fiction a bit too much.
Rajkumar ‘Raj’ Reddy is top-tier Male Lead material. And a freaking DRAMA KING.
He is a gorgeous, disgustingly rich, and ultra-confident Child Abuse Pediatrician. He’s also emotionally finished, a narcissist, and a scammer all but in name.
But what did it matter if he was soulless or morally bankrupt? Why should anyone care that he married someone only because of their money?
He was the Male Lead, right? Since when were Male Leads ever held accountable?
And then he falls in love. Utterly useless. Very, very unnecessary. Annoyingly delicious for someone as self-aware as he is.
Raj knows he’s in love. He knows it every second he smiles when she talks to him or says good morning Rajkumar, in that sweet voice he dreams about more often lately.
So now, our Male Lead is on a mission to GET OUT OF LOVE.
This relationship holds too many green flags!
Painful. Also doesn’t allow him to be hypocritical for more than three seconds. Horrid, really.
And in the background is the Reddy family. It’s not an easy home. It’s never been easy with all that power and wealth involved. There’s too much scheming and engineering in one place.
There’s an overlooked half-brother that literally descended from hell, a sweet twin sister that has more than her fair share of buried grudges to Raj (and vice versa), and a patriarch that might be loving father and enabler all rolled into one.
There are traumas that our Male Lead wants to never remember.
You see that’s the thing about Romance with Accountability. It can be sweet. It can be deadly.
Will our Male Lead manage to protect his secrets and secure the inheritance, or will his deepening emotions force him to confront his inner demons? Can greed truly give way to love? Or is that just something we only see in the movies?
Will he finally go to therapy?
A gripping tale of love, family, the high stakes of inheritance, and the journey to self – Shape of the Sun explores what happens with leads in a world where the rest are left to silence.
Read a sample here.
Shape of the Sun is available at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books.
