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SNAKES IN THE MEADOWS

Author: Ayaz Kohli
Pages:276
Genre: thriller
RATINGS:4/5
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🐍(Review)🐍
Starting from the cover, it looks awesome and eye-catching. Title is apt with the story.

The lines between reality and fiction often get blurbed in this book. This is not just limited to love story of Aslam and Ashwar but it’s also mirroring people’s real-live angst against corrupted militants in Pathri Ali of J&K. At another instance, this book takes pertinent issues like physical and emotional fallouts of domestic violence and melds it into a trippy thriller.

This is a heady ride where different versions of the truth are presented to believe in one or the other or none at all, and the characters are free to give rise to a complicated and layered narrative. Thus, author afforded deep insights into the militancy, the suffering and the resilience of Pir Panjal.

The twisted and wicked storyline is rich in research and offers an exhilarating climax, prevailing of good over evil.

Not to forget that it also has few drawbacks like-
◆sometimes the story is stretcheded unnecessarily.
◆The pace is quite slow.

Nevertheless, I’m glad that debutant author employs to take such issues forword and it’s a must read for everyone.

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ARANGHYA AND JAHAR
Author: Vidhya Iyer
Genre: fantasy
Format:Kindle 
Pages:215
RATINGS:3/5
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The cover of the book is simple but a dark colour makes the book attractive.This book comes with fusion of fantasy and historical stories.The book has intriguing plot where the story is set in Bandahar,ruled by king Mithilesh and Aranghya is the capital of that empire. 
The theme talks about love story,emotions,war tactics, revenge and so on. The beginning is little slow but few scenes are really well crafted.The book has intriguing plot where the story is set in Bandahar,ruled by king Mithilesh and Aranghya is the capital of that empire. 
The theme talks about love story,emotions,war tactics, revenge and so on. The beginning is little slow but few scenes are really well crafted.Language is good. Narration is okay but it could have been better.And sometimes it was really confusing.The thing I didn’t like is too many characters and vivid descriptions make this book complicated.

Overall, it is a one-time read and I will recommend if you like to read fantasy books.

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THE CODE OF MANAVAS

Author: Arpit Bakshi (@author_arpit)
Genre: Sci-fi
Pages:295
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My ratings: 3/5
▶(Blurb)◀
It is set some two million years past AD 2050, when earth as we know it has ceased to exist. A new race, Manava, exist on Bhoomi or Earth.
Researcher Krishna is busy to prepare a new abode for Manava before an impending apocalypse. To make the matters worse, there is someone in Madhavpur who wants to destroy Krishna and subjugate each Manava.
Will Krishna be able to save them during the last turn of Yuga? What will be the price to pay?
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This was my first sci-fi book to read and I liked it.
【Thumbs up】
✳Cover is really beautiful and eye-catching.
✳The story is good fusion of mythology and science.
✳Very unique and interesting plot.
✳ Narration is okay and language is also lucid.
✳ Nice ending.
【Thumbs down】
✳ Characterisation is little poor.
✳ Monotonous and dragged unnecessarily in some places.

⏺Recommendation: yes

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DONE WITH HER

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🌸||DONE WITH HER||🌸
Author: Chirasree Bose
Genre: thriller
Format:Kindle 
Pages:53
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RATINGS: 4/5
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◆[Blurb]
A techie, Avesh Mathur, stumbles upon sultry Spreeha who is the center of attraction in his office. But he is struck in horror as if she reminds him of someone from his past. That past Avesh wants to keep in secret. 
What tragedy awaits for Avesh? Will he finally have to face the truth that he’s been stashing for two years?
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◆[Review]
🗡Cover is good but could have been designed better. Title is catchy and it sounds interesting.
🗡Language is good but difficult for beginners to comprehend.
🗡Author’s writing style is amazing which hooked the reader till the end.
🗡Theme is of mystery, crime, love,lust, past life, revenge and so on.
🗡The pacing of the story is precise and intact. You can finish it in one go.
🗡 The strong point of this book is the unpredictable twists that will stab at your subconscious.I like to read such a book once in a while.

Overall, it is a very short and good read. ®-Recommended to everyone.
So, why are you waiting for? Go and grab your copy.

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THE GLASS HOUSE

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◆[The Glass House]◆
Author: Chanchal Sanyal
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Genre: fiction
Rating⭐: 3/5
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🏠[BLURB]
College professor M.B. and his wife,Roshni, are a yuppie couple living in the monstrous, smog-encrusted, roiling city of Delhi. They have family achieved in an up and coming builder complex in Gurgaon. The problem is, it seems like it is going to be up and coming for a while.
What makes a house a home? Will it be easy to buy an appartement of their choice?
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🏠 [REVIEW]
The novel has a good plot but the language is a little difficult to understand. Narrations and descriptions are smooth and well written. 
The book provides so many twist and turns with the ideas of middle-class urban happiness. What I really like is the struggle of these couple to have their own house in a big city like Delhi is well descried on the basis of reality.It reaveals the deepest desires of our hearts.
Not to forget that both Bengali and Punjabi cultures have been blended throughout the book. Additionally, the author presents the problems of the couple stumbled upon their personal life.
Cover is good, but could have been better. Title is quite unique.
One more thing that I really loved was, I came across so many new words while reading this book.

Overall, it is a good read.
Recommended for contemporary topic readers.

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SONG OF LIFE

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Author: Anuradha Singh
Genre: poetry
Format:Kindle 
Pages:36
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RATINGS: 4/5🌠
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◆[Blurb]
Mahabharata, India’s legacy, longest written poetry, stories interlinked with each other with so many characters, events and places. Each character is has a role to play, which is vital for the story to go ahead. ◆[Review]
⚫Cover is colourful but could have been designed better. Title is catchy and it sounds interesting.
⚫Language is good,easy to understand. Narration is simple.
⚫Theme talks about mythology, politics, ancient history of India and so on.
⚫The flow is subtle, smooth and enriching.
⚫It’s very difficult to write a poem on epic tale but it was a good effort by the writer. I really liked it.

Overall, it is a good read. ®-Recommended for young generation who have not read or heard the Mahabharata much.

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LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

                                                             

  • Preeti Shenoy is an author and an artist based at Bangalore, India. Her first book ’34 Bubblegums and Candies’, a creative non-fiction made it to the national best-seller list. Her interests are as multifarious and diverse as her several academic degrees. She also specialises in pencil portraits and holds an internationally recognized qualification from UK in portraiture. She has held a number of varied jobs in the past. She has also written for different publications life Readers Digest and Times of India, as well as taught English and Math to underprivileged children in India. She loves art, reading, travelling, photography, nature, animals, blogging and basketball and most of all, spending time with her spouse and two children.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

                                                     

The story is about a 20 years old Ankita Sharma who used to be a very sweet, charming, confident and happy girl in her college days, coming from a conservative middle class family. Her parents are so strict that they do not like her friendships with guys. But Ankita is so serious in her studies that she secures a seat in a leading management school. As life is so unpredictable,it surprisingly snatches everything from Ankita that she had in her past. One day she becomes a patient of a mental hospital. Thus she faced the cruelty of the fate. How did Ankita survive from that stage of life? How did she overcome and fight back in her life? 

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MY REVIEWS:


Things I like about the book:
🍁The writing style is very lucid with simple language.
🍁The concept attracted me the most to read this book.
🍁The story was well written and I could connect to the characters specially that of college girl Ankita.
🍁The cover page and the story-both are inspiring. 🍁Emotional and heart touching story.

🍁Overall, it is a nice read.

RATINGS:4/5 
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