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. […]
Thundergod: The Ascendance of Indra | Rajiv Menon | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Among the plethora of mythological fiction authors that have swarmed the local bookstores and online retailers, some manage to make their mark in the world of literature, some manage to pass by as just another me-too and a few others come and go […]
The Fire Chronicle | John Stephens | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Fantasy fiction is a tricky thing to write. Not only does it require imagination on the part of the author, he/she should also be able to translate it onto paper effectively so that the readers will be able to imagine the same thing. […]
Krishna and the Lake of Souls | Anurag Bhatt | Book Review
PLOT: 1.5/5 CHARACTERS: 1/5 WRITING STYLE: 1/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 1.5/5 Harry Potter is the best fantasy fiction I have ever read. It is my strong belief that by penning the Potter series, J.K Rowling has done a service to the world. I salute her for giving us this greatest work of literature, giving […]
A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.” – Cersei Lannister There are very few books which deserve to be acknowledged in the category of Epics. A Game of Thrones is certainly one of them. The first book in […]
Heroes: Saving Charlie | Aury Wallington | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Heroes: Saving Charlie is a novel written by Aury Wallington which is based on the famous TV series – Heroes. I picked this book with great enthusiasm as I used to enjoy the show a great deal and thought it would be a […]
Priestess of the White | Trudi Canavan | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I picked up Trudy Canavan’s Priestess of the White from a second-hand bookstore without having read any of her previous books. I was intrigued by the cover and the blurb excited me enough to make me buy the Book One of the “Age of […]
The Secrets of the Dark | Arka Chakrabarti | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “The Secrets of the Dark” is the first book in the series of ‘The Saga of Agni’. Written by debut author Arka Chakrabarti, the book is nothing but sheer indulgence. In this book, Arka writes about the mystical land of Gaya which is […]