Fiction

Masturbating With Strangers by Bodhi Alvarez

Masturbating With Strangers | Bodhi Alvarez | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 For most of us, it takes a long time to figure out what we really want to do, what we are capable of doing, and what society will allow us to do. By the time we do make head or tail of the …

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The Chaos Within by Ashima Chalia

The Chaos Within | Ashima Chalia | Book Review

PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 It is reunion time for the “Fiasco Five”. Once the most happening, cool and notorious bunch in their batch the “Fiasco Five” have moved on with their lives and have got everything they had ever hoped for in life – money, fame, power …

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Metro Diaries by Namrata

Metro Diaries | Namrata | Book Review

SUBJECT: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 In the words of the famous English singer and songwriter John Lennon, “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” and just like the legendary superstar, I too, strongly believe that love can never be forgotten. It can be …

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Where Angels Prey by Ramesh S Arunachalam

Where Angels Prey | Ramesh S Arunachalam | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS : 4/5 WRITING STYLE : 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT:-4/5 The major focus should be on the consumer protection here, but as we all know, post-2008 Financial Meltdown it’s more inclined towards who gets the fattest cheque at the end of the month. Be it at the cost of a poor man’s …

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Edny Arem by Ashok Varma

Edny Arem | Ashok Varma | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 We all have seen and loved the movie Mr. India in our younger days. Now, imagine what if you have a book on the same concept. A watch like contraption which when worn on your wrist will make the wearer invisible to the …

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Circle of Fate Prita Warrier

Circle of Fate | Prita Warrier | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 If I have to compare Prita Warrier’s style and choice of theme to another famous author’s work, I would proudly name Mr R.K. Narayanan and Ms Sudha Murthy as my choice because these are the names which flashed in my mind while going …

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queen of ice devika

Queen of Ice | Devika Rangachari | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Queen of Ice by Devika Rangachari is a book based on the real story of a 10th century Kashmiri Queen. She finds mention in the famous “Rajatarangini” written by Kalhana. “Didda” as she was known to one and all was born into the …

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Shatru Kronikles

Shatru Kronikles Book-1 | Sai Vadhan | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Writing fantasy fiction is no cakewalk. It takes elephantine courage and an equally gargantuan imagination to come up with something which can be garnished and served as fantasy fiction to an audience who have basked in glorious worlds of Narnia, Hogwarts and their …

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Revival Stephen King

Revival | Stephen King | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Stephen King is a well-known author, prolifically writing horror stories, suspense and fantasy novels. When you find out that Mr. King has come out with another book, you mostly tend to think it is yet another story that is going to scare the …

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goodbye girl sheeja jose

Goodbye Girl | Sheeja Jose | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Justice is a strange concept, a concept which differentiates the right from wrong, the innocent from the guilty. Lady Justice is generally shown with a blindfold which represents objectivity, in that justice is or should be meted out objectively, without fear or favour, …

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Half Life by M. H. Rahman

Half Life | M. H. Rahman | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 There is seldom a debut author who strikes you as someone so brilliant that you vow to read each and every one of his future works. Thus, it is not always that you come across a writer as brilliant and as talented as …

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