Fiction

Flames Of Paradise by Tanuja Shankar

Flames Of Paradise | Tanuja Shankar | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Much has been written about the Kashmir Valley and the conflict which surrounds it. Many articles and many books describe what the people of Kashmir have gone through and still go through in their day to day lives. We at bookGeeks.in too have …

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Just The Way You Are by Sanjeev Ranjan

Just The Way You Are | Sanjeev Ranjan | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Sanjeev Ranjan has to his credit two bestselling novels – In course of True Love (2012) and It’s No Longer a Dream (2014) but unfortunately, I never had the pleasure of reading them. Published by Random House India, Just The Way You Are …

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Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

Moriarty | Anthony Horowitz | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Sherlock Holmes is one of the most beloved characters in fiction and is a world-famous detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero has captured the imagination of people then and now, and if the movies and TV series that keep coming out are any …

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When She Smiled by Ritoban Chakrabarti

When She Smiled | Ritoban Chakrabarti | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The truth/false quotient of the above-mentioned quote is pretty evidently known to all guys who have been in love at least once in their life. Trying to figure out girls or write about them is ultimately like trying to let a dictionary represent life, no …

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Robert Ludlum's The Janson Option by Paul Garrison

Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option | Paul Garrison | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 During his long career as a writer, Robert Ludlum was well respected for the yarns he could spin, and the level of detail and complexity his plots had. More often than not it meant that the books were huge, but they were a …

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Get into Gear, Stilton! Geronimo Stilton

Get into Gear, Stilton! | Geronimo Stilton | Book Review

STORY: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 COVER: 4/5 ILLUSTRATIONS: 4/5 FUN QUOTIENT: 3/5 I am reviewing a book for the first time and I am also reading Geronimo Stilton for the first time. I think that this book Get into Gear, Stilton! is very funny and I like it very much. It has twists at two points in …

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Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks by Natasha Sharma

Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks | Natasha Sharma | Book Review

STORY: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 COVER: 4.5/5 ILLUSTRATION: 3/5 FUN QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks has a wonderful concept of mixing history with mystery. The book, very skillfully, makes use of the story and characters to help the children learn a little bit of history as well. Since I myself am an adult, …

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The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry

The Lincoln Myth | Steve Berry | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Historical fiction is a lot of fun to read, especially when it is from authors who do their research and try to keep the historical facts as straight as they can. When they do play hard and fast with facts, it would be …

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The Vines

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 …

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Past Encounters

Past Encounters | Davina Blake | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 I haven’t read many books on the holocaust, so every now and then when I come across one, I get really excited to read it. Even though I haven’t lived the history myself, I somehow feel nostalgic reading it, that somehow my reading …

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Station Eleven

Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Book Review

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 It is not every day that you come across a book which sweeps you off your feet. A book which will leave you dreaming about the world you just read about. Which will make you want to live in the world which it …

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