PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I live in the small town of Hosapete near Hampi in Karnataka. There aren’t many choices available to buy books here and so, whenever I get a chance I travel to the nearby Hubli, I religiously visit the Sapna Book Mall there. It […]
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 One” has too many glaring deficiencies. The two non-negotiable elements in producing top-notch fantasy are imagination and intensity. Cline’s imagination is […]
The Ghost Writer | Damon Norko | Book Review
PLOT: 2/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 One look at “The Ghost Writer” and it is quite easy to dismiss the unappealing cover but when you bother to read the blurb, it sounds rather intriguing and appealing. And that was exactly why I decided to pick this book out of […]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 A little boy. An unnamed monster. Birds from an unnamed realm which feed on said unnamed monster. A woman so old that she witnessed the Big Bang. A girl who has been 11 years old for an uncertain period of time. A pond that is an ocean. These are just a few of the elements in The Ocean at the End of […]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 FORMAT: 2/5 MEETING EXPECTATIONS: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 After so many years, Harry Potter fans had something to look forward to in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” – a new adventure, a new thrill, a brand new story but alas, we never get what we […]
The Quest | Dani Hoots | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The Quest by Dani Hoots is the first in the Sanshlian series and is the story of a young girl Arcadia who lives on the planet Garvner along with her brother Rik and her dad. One day when she is only six years […]
Miss Mabel’s School for Girls | Katie Cross | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Before I start this review I must state one single fact – I am a complete Harry Potter fan and hence my loving Miss Mabel’s School for Girls was a predestined thing. How? Well, for starters this book is about witches and magic […]
Sniffer Boys: Adventure of the Lost Reserve | Vivek Gadre | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 THE CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Sniffer Boys: Adventure of the Lost Reserve comes as a pleasant surprise. This small book is a story about four boys Sagar, Manish, Rishi and Gaurav. They are the Sniffer Boys. They form a group of young detectives who work for the […]
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 […]
Svaha: A Battle of Epic Proportions | Pratik Kamat | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 I deem mythologies to be superhero stories of the old times; stories in which the hero, a simple man, becomes the saviour and a God due to the adverse situations he is put in. India is blessed with a rich mythology, and a […]
Bloodlust: Stefan’s Diaries #2 | L.J. Smith | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I am an ardent follower and worshiper of the Vampire Diaries, the legendarily famous TV series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. Some time back in mid-2013, I got the chance to read the Stefan’s Diaries Volume One: Origins (I had wanted […]
The Devil’s Gate: An Impossible Journey | Deepak Kripal | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 It takes courage to write on concepts and notions which rarely catch the fancy of other writers. Even if one does choose to settle down to an ‘unheard-of’ theme, it takes even more courage to put it into words and deliver to the […]