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 […]
The Finisher | David Baldacci | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 I have never read a David Baldacci book before, but from what I could gather from so many of my fellow book lovers is that he is indeed a master craftsman of words. Unfortunately for me, that was not the case to be, […]
Age of Hiblisk | Sumukh Naik | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Fantasy is probably the most arduous of all the genres for an author to write because he/she does not have the luxury of using an already existing place/location. The entire world, entire geography, entire landscapes have to be built from scratch, and in […]
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Salman Rushdie calling it ‘The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years’ and The New York Times wishing to make it ‘required reading for the entire human race’ were reasons enough for me to pick up One Hundred Years of […]
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 It was the year 2012 and I was cooling my heels off at my family home in Agra. With little work my hands on, I was desperately relying on Facebook and the ‘Game of Thrones’ series to spend my time. Just then, it […]
Message from a Hidden Past | Jos Rogiers | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 HISTORICAL VALUE: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 Imagine you get up in the morning, step out of your house to relish the freshly settled morning dew on your bougainvillaea and begonias, and you come across a book at your doorstep, a rather mysterious looking manuscript written by a dwarf. […]