There are seven characters mentioned in this book, with the main protagonist being Debashish (Deb), who hails from Bengal and is deeply scarred with haunting memories of the blast.
I feel sick of the haunting images that spin round my head" The author starts off with memories of the blast day.
He wants to seek redemption as he stood there, on the blast day, watching the victims die.
Most of the novel revolves around the trio (Avantika, Shrey, Deb) and a girl named Tiya, travelling in an old car.
They reach Dehradun where Deb goes to Imperial academy to search for R.D's best friend who was listed as an all rounder of that year.
When he comes back to hotel he finds out that Tiya is crashing their trip and deeply misses Avantika.
Next day they reach Haridwar, Avantika surprises Deb by coming their and spends time with him.
While Deb was waiting for her she changed her mind and abandoned her heavy luggage signifying that she is going to be the carefree Avantika during this road trip.
Deb and Avantika travels to Gandhinagar where Ritam's disabled sister Nivedita was admitted in a mental asylum.
They saved them by stepping in and giving statement that Tiya isn't minor, they are from media and she is their intern.
Shrey takes the information from emergency contact list of Nivedita and confronts Deb about the diary.
They take a train to Mumbai where Sumi (emergency contact of Nivedita) stays.
They all visit Nigel where he shares how sorry he is for ruining Ragini's life by forcing her to start drinking and doing drugs.
Apparently after the drug overdose Ragini was deeply ashamed by her actions and cut all the ties with Ritam.
After few months Deb receives a letter from Ritam where he describes how painful it is to live as Nivedita passed away too.
The letter was written after he took a syringe of extremely strong drug and wrote that he is going to take another dose thus ending his life.
Ritam explains how his suicide attempt failed and he took it as a sign that Ragini and Nivedita want him alive.
Ritam said he was going to propose her soon even though she might reject as doctors predicted she won't survive long time.
Youth24x7, on their review, said, "Looking at ‘If it’s not forever, it’s not love’ will definitely make one think that it is one of those mushy love stories but what distinguishes this book from them is the way Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh have given a new sensitive angle to the story by presenting the protagonist as a bomb blast victim striving to achieve redemption".
Justlife reviewer Heena Joshi wrote, "Love could not have better sketch ever than the one depicted in this novel.