Sankalpita Singh

Love Story by Erich Segal

Love Story | Erich Segal | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 As I sat down writing this review, I looked at the book and wondered who am I to rate such a masterpiece. This book is amazing, the best I have ever come across in romance books. The simplicity and the subtlety of the …

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Monsoon Wedding Fever by Shoma Narayanan

Monsoon Wedding Fever | Shoma Narayanan | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 ‘Mills and Boon’ has always been a girl’s favourite companion. It is the one which accompanies a girl all the way from her teens to early womanhood, and often, even then, it is almost inseparable from the woman that she would have become. …

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Red Hill by Jamie McGuire

Red Hill | Jamie McGuire | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Sometime back in the year 2013, I had read a book– Zombiestan, and as the name suggests it indeed is a work of zombie fiction. Then, after a while, we at bookgeeks reviewed two other books from the author Mainak Dhar in the …

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Two Winters and 365 Days by Anuradha Prasad

Two Winters and 365 Days | Anuradha Prasad | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Reading a debut author’s work is always a bit of an adventure, whether that adventure will fulfil what one is seeking or will it turn into a mere disappointment, is just a matter of sheer luck. Anxious to try out yet another debut …

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Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 I had read Confessions of a Shopaholic sometime back, on a train back from Agra to Hospet. Though I don’t remember much about that journey now, I do remember one thing and that is I never remember getting bored. The reason being the company …

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The Treasure of Kafur by Aroon Raman

The Treasure of Kafur | Aroon Raman | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Last year Ravi had reviewed Aroon Raman’s debut book – The Shadow Throne. The book and the cover seemed very interesting to me and I had immediately made a mental note to include the book in my to-read list, but, somehow, I could …

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Bird in a Banyan Tree

Bird in a Banyan Tree | Bina Ramani | Book Review

SUBJECT: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CANDIDNESS: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Initially, I had reservations about Bird in a Banyan Tree, and most of them were about the author’s close connection in the Jessica Lal case. Based on all the media attention the book has so far generated, it should have been filled with pages and …

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Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi | Jung Chang | Book Review

SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 HISTORICAL RELEVANCE: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Being a woman, I love reading about women in general and it is, therefore, surely a treat when one gets to read about someone as powerful as the Empress of China – Her Highness Dowager Cixi. You must not have heard about …

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A Gift to Remember

A Gift to Remember | Melissa Hill | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 In the mood for good romance fiction, I indulgently and expectantly sat down with Melissa Hill’s A Gift to Remember. Hailed as the queen of modern fairy-tale, Melissa Hill’s reputation precedes her words. So to uncover the truth behind all that “queen of …

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A School Counsellor's Diary

A School Counsellor’s Diary | Loya Agarwala | Book Review

SUBJECT: 3/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 RELEVANCE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 Sometime back, while scrolling through Westland’s reading list for a particular month, I found A School Counsellor’s Diary. The title was so catchy that not bothering to look on the internet about what the book was, I casually ordered it as a reading …

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