Vyom and the Royal Weapon is a fascinating tale about a global organisation that promotes international cooperation and strives to establish world peace. It is an unputdownable and exciting read about fierce combats resting on Indian tradition and myth that can be read from cover to cover.
Ascendance | Sadhna Shanker | Book Review
For all the science-fiction readers out there, author Sadhna Shanker, through her latest book Ascendance, brings to you a world where the whole setting is foreign and the population segregation bizarre. It has a whodunit factor that answered to the thirst for mystery in me.
Keepers of the Kalachakra | Ashwin Sanghi | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 My Musings India’s greatest storyteller is back again after a long gap. After penning masterpieces such as The Krishna Key, The Rozabal Line,… [Continue Reading]
Europa | Hywel Richard Pinto | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTER: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Europa opens with a tantalising scene of Captain Sparks, completely consumed by lust, finds himself in the mouth of the most feared fictional… [Continue Reading]
Ice Bound | Hywel Richard Pinto | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Ice Bound is based in 2034 on the post-apocalyptic earth – a new world, where only faint traces of the old world remain… [Continue Reading]
The Alien Conspiracy | Krishna Sriteja D. | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 It’s not every day that you come across an Indian science fiction novel and thus finally when you find one, it is hard… [Continue Reading]
Skyfire | Aroon Raman | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 It’s not every day that you come across a great book but when you do, it is hard to pull yourself out of… [Continue Reading]
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 2/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 There is nothing quite as irksome as a promising book that fails to deliver. Despite its potential, Ernest Cline’s poorly executed science fiction/fantasy debut “Ready Player… [Continue Reading]
Memories with Maya | Clyde Dsouza | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Science fiction stories are always fascinating. The technology involved and the settings are almost always futuristic, and to see how the world in… [Continue Reading]
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 When it comes to books, I’m largely a fantasy-oriented guy. I haven’t read too many science-fiction books but Douglas Adam’s comic sci-fi series,… [Continue Reading]
Lexicon | Max Barry | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Reading a lot of books can be good and bad. On the one hand, one can learn a lot from books, fiction or… [Continue Reading]