Friday 22 September 2017

BOOK REVIEW - It's got to be love by Prashant Kaul.

BLURB : 
 Meet Dev Sharma, a young student, who has a unique ability – he has nightmares that unfortunately come true.
It’s Got to Be Love weaves around Dev and his friend Vikram. Dev is initially smitten with Carol, a college girl, but due to various reasons, they part ways. He meets Vaani through Facebook and a steady friendship develops between them, which soon blossoms into love. However, Vaani turns down Dev, for reasons known only to her.
Will Dev win back his love?
Will Carol come into his life again?
Join Dev on his emotional roller-coaster ride in Chandigarh, Delhi and Mumbai.
REVIEW : 
 
Writing a love story is the most difficult task in today's time. Prashant Kaul just manages to do it with appreciable flamboyance. To Start with the cover page of the book shows an insight into the the everyday life of Dev whoo rows without the company of his parents and is thus just like a sapling that grows without the shade of a tree. As we read more the novel turns into a quirky narrative pf Dev's love episodes and how he tries to find solace in them, but in vain. The story strarts with a bang but became quite slow in the mid and as the reader proceeds towards the ending the book turns out to pick its lost pace. To begin with the actual review, the cover is catchy enough and the reader shall pick the book up just after looking at it once, the blurb as compared to the story gives an apt jist of the entire story. The editing failed to get all the marks, as i feel i could actually find some major flaws in the punctuation and grammatical errors. Overall the language is lucid and will keep the readers hooked to the book till the very end. For me this book has all the qualities to turn into a movie.

RATING : 4/5 ( i am deducting .5 for editing and .5 for the grammatical errors else the book is a quick one time read )

BOOK REVIEW- You never know : sometimes love can drag you through hell by AKASH VERMA.

BLURB : 
 There will be times when you feel you have the best relationship, ever There will be times when it will be the worst that has happened to you There will be times when you know you are getting into something terrible; something that will not stop till it destroys you And yet . . . You will be pulled into it so inextricably, unstoppably . . . Dhruv knew Anuradha was his true love. So, despite being married with kids, he still went ahead with their affair. He hid it from his wife and his colleagues. He told lies so he could be with her-it was that amazing! But he couldn't save himself from the dark secret she was keeping. It pulled him into a vortex of danger so deep that he lost all he had. It happened to him and if you think it can't happen to you-think again.



REVIEW : when you come across such good romantic-thriller book, you just build up a lot of expectations, coming that from an author like Akash Verma you just can't delay in reading his book. i have read his previous two books and his storytelling skills is just amazing. coming back on this book, the blurb gives u a crux about what the story is going to be. since the time i picked the book up i just stepped into the shoes of each and every character when they narrated their parts. The story is gripping enough and you shall not be able to leave the book till the time you finish it off. till the very end it becomes really tough for the reader to predict the ending, the ones liners used in between the story are exceptionally good. The editing is just mere perfect, i couldn't find one single mistake in the entire story. Hardly you come across such books which are just perfect in their literal sense, from cover to blurb to the story writing and infact the editing, for me this book just stood on my expectations on all the grounds. pick this book up and enjoy over a cup of coffee.

RATING : 4.5/5

Monday 11 September 2017

Book review of The Colours Of Passion-unravelling dark secrets behind the limelight.

                     BOOK REVIEW OF 'COLOURS OF PASSION BY SOURABH MUKHERJEE'

BLURB :
Within days of her fairy-tale wedding with Manav Chauhan, the dashing young entrepreneur, Hiya Sen, the reigning queen of Tollywood, is brutally raped and murdered by three men. As ACP Agni Mitra investigates into the high-profile murder, he meets Neha Awasthi, with whom Manav broke his engagement to marry Hiya, Neha’s father Deepak Awasthi, who was eyeing business benefits through the alliance, Mayank Kapoor, an alcoholic model, and Rituja Bose, the diva who had reigned over Tollywood over the past decade. When two more murders connected with the case make headlines, it’s time for Agni to find answers to perplexing questions and unveil shocking truths.
The Colours of Passion breezes through Kolkata’s glamorous world of industrialists, movie stars, models and fashion designers laced with drug addiction and illicit liaisons, with a heart-wrenching tragedy at its core.


REVIEW :
Hardly I come across authors who write such amazing thrillers with two of my fav genres infused in a single book. I have been a fan of Sourabh Mukherjee's murder thrillers' and I look forward to read his books every time. The colour of passion 'as shown in the cover' depicts the colour red as it signifies revenge and love too. when I started reading it since the very first page I knew it would very easy for me to find the murdered but as expected I was wrong, since the very first page you will start guessing about the murderer and u will surely doubt each and every character and still you will fail to predict the ending. The writing is crisp, lucid and amazingly captivating, you won't be ale to keep the book down till the time you complete it. The editing is just flawless, from the cover to the blurb, everything is just good, I couldn't find any single flaw that can disappoint any reader. This book can be easily awarded as the best murder thriller of the year.

RATING: 5/5

DIFFERENT BEADS OF THE SAME STRING- A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES

                    DIFFERENT BEADS OF THE SAME STRING BY SUJAY MALIK

BLURB :
A delightful collection of stories spanning the past, the present and the future, ranging from villages to cities, from the mundane to the extraordinary, from external events and societal norms to internal conflicts, confrontations and catharses of characters, Different Beads of the Same String promises an interesting journey set in contemporary Indian society.

REVIEW :
I have a very strong liking for short stories, I often pick up books with short n crisp stories and prefer reading them rather giving out time to full length novel, I was scrolling down amazon.in and that is when I came across 'different beads of the same strings', I read the blurb and voila, I knew that I just got the perfect read for the weekend. let me tell you I completed this book in a single siting of 3 hours. Sujay's writing style is so captivating that I couldn't keep the book down for a minute and kept it finally when I was through it. it was such an enthralling one, from romantic stories to one with good twist n turns, it has everything that a person will expect from this book after reading the blurb. from book cover to the way it is written, from its short synopsis to the exceptionally good one liners, this book is just mere perfect with absolutely no flaw. I felt if the mrp could have been a lil less, it would have been good otherwise content wise this book is worth ur money. a perfect book that should be present in your bookshelves.

RATING :
5/5