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]
Based on Lies: It Begins | Debarshi Kanjilal | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 My Musings Novellas are sometimes so much more fun than a novel. This is especially true when they manage to tell a gripping… [Continue Reading]
The Assassinations: A Novel of 1984 | Vikram Kapur | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Major world events don’t happen overnight. In fact, any major event does not happen overnight. They do not arise out of silly tiffs… [Continue Reading]
Across the Silent Sands | Karthik Sreeram Kannan | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 Few Musings Thrillers often excite me. The mystery and dread associated with a thriller are often hard to come by in any other… [Continue Reading]
The Evil Trance | Mark Dysan | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Few musings A happy change that I have only recently started noticing in Indian novels is that an increasing number of authors are… [Continue Reading]
The Mahabharata Murders | Arnab Ray | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 My Golden Rule It’s not always necessary to judge a book by its climax. This golden rule that I often strive to follow… [Continue Reading]
3 and a Half Murders | Salil Desai | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 As a book reviewer, every now and then I come across a book which is so good that I am often left wondering… [Continue Reading]
Recollecting the End | Himanshu Rai | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Who doesn’t love a good mystery? It’s a great way to make a dull afternoon interesting or to turn a tasteless night into… [Continue Reading]
Into the Water | Paula Hawkins | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Having read the phenomenally successful book, “The Girl on the Train” by the same author, comparisons between the two books were inevitable. So,… [Continue Reading]
The Resurrection of Evil | Neelabh Pratap Singh | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I have always believed our Hindu mythologies – Ramayana, Mahabharata, Shiva Purana and Vishnu Purana – to be more of a history rather… [Continue Reading]
The Girl of my Dreams | Durjoy Datta | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Durjoy Datta needs no introduction. He is one of the most celebrated best-selling authors in India today and hence when his latest “The… [Continue Reading]
Jim Morgan and the Seven Sins | Bharat Madan | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 After a long time, I got the opportunity to read a fantasy thriller. This is a rather rare genre amongst the Indian authors… [Continue Reading]
