PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Mainak Dhar is the bestselling author of the “Alice in Deadland” series. Besides the super hit series, he has also penned other books most of them being zombie fictions. Chronicler Of The Undead is the latest book from his kitty and judging by his […]
52 Likes | Medeia Sharif | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 52 Likes by Evernight Teen Publishers is a delightful read. It is the story is of a young school-going girl, Valerie, who is the victim of a brutal rape and near-murder at the hands of a stranger when she was on her way […]
Broken Lies (Broken #1) | Claire Vale | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 There is something about dystopian fiction which appeals to readers of all ages. The panic, the tension, life on the edge is something which scares and thrills all of us. I got a chance to review Broken Lies by Claire Vale when the […]
J | Howard Jacobson | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 When you mention Howard Jacobson, you have to mention it with at least some degree of awe and reverence. This is because the author has to his credit the famous Man booker prize which was awarded to him in the year 2010 for […]
Revival | Stephen King | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Stephen King is a well-known author, prolifically writing horror stories, suspense and fantasy novels. When you find out that Mr. King has come out with another book, you mostly tend to think it is yet another story that is going to scare the […]
The Vines | Christopher Rice | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 The southern plantation estates have always held and retained the charm of the olden ways. If one can manage to look past its dirty past, there is indeed an aura to these estates. Spring House in the state of New Orleans in the […]
Valley of Nightmares | Jane Godman | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I picked up Valley of Nightmares from Netgalley and started reading it only after a month or so of downloading it. If my words mean anything to you – I say mark my words – this book will surely surprise you. It is […]
Red Hill | Jamie McGuire | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Sometime back in the year 2013, I had read a book– Zombiestan, and as the name suggests it indeed is a work of zombie fiction. Then, after a while, we at bookgeeks reviewed two other books from the author Mainak Dhar in the […]
Through the Killing Glass (Alice in Deadland #2) | Mainak Dhar | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Zombies are one of the favourite subjects of horror writers and film directors. A list of all the movies, TV series and books on zombies would fill up many pages. Amongst the best, we have movies such as Dawn of the Dead, 28 […]
Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills | Minakshi Chaudhry | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 A month back I was in the beautiful hill city of Shimla. At the railway station, I came across a bookshop selling a dozen or so book on Shimla. It was here I saw the book, More Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills and bought it […]
Midnight Breed Series | Lara Adrian | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 In fiction that deals with paranormal, protagonists and antagonists seem to be a popular trend in the present times. Like a domino effect, but without an exact known causation, the genre has brought forth various authors trying their hand at it and succeeding […]
The Disappearance of Tejas Sharma | Manish Mahajan | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Beyond the realms of men, there is a world; a world where the unknown and the unexplained resides, a world which information and education can’t reasonably explain, a world where the existentialism is not bound by mere carnal presence. Not necessarily horrifying or scary, this […]