Fiction

Fraudster by RV Raman

Fraudster | RV Raman | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Fraudster by RV Raman is a crime-fiction book. Crime fiction novels in India have not had the same success as other genres like romance and dare I say, humour. This could well be that either the audience for such a genre is limited …

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Memories with Maya by Clyde Dsouza

Memories with Maya | Clyde Dsouza | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Science fiction stories are always fascinating. The technology involved and the settings are almost always futuristic, and to see how the world in the future may evolve always keeps the reader interested. Of course, sometimes, the circumstances become too improbable, and readers may …

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An Affair to Remember by Harkeerat Anand

An Affair to Remember | Harkeerat Anand | Book Review

PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 Unfortunately, Harkeerat failed to do so, rather than trying to write something on the terms of a classic (Taking the risk), she tried to follow the age-old logic of picking up a working story and giving it that Indian tadka (Stuck to the …

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Irresistible Enemy by Mary Costello

Irresistible Enemy | Mary Costello | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Replete with all the classic ingredients of a masala romance novel, this novel offers you everything which will make sure that you enjoy reading every single page out of it. With the “Plain Jane” heroine Cassie Bowtell and handsome & suave Hart Huntingdon, …

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Yes, Chef! by Lisa Joy

Yes, Chef! | Lisa Joy | Book Review

PLOT: 3 /5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Food & Beverage industry is an employee’s dream industry. With all those delicious dishes and mouth-watering delicacies surrounding you all day, it surely makes for an interesting job profile. But what will happen if, by an unlucky chance, all you have to …

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The Silkworm

The Silkworm | Robert Galbraith | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 For any author of a successful series, it can be difficult to write a story that does not revolve around the universe created in that series. Some successfully do it, some cannot replicate the same success they had with the series, while still, …

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Beyond School Chitra Anand

Beyond School | Chitra Anand | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 If there is any better novel written on board examinations and the kind of effect they have on kids, then I request one and all that please do let me know, because I have surely never across a better one. Beyond School showcases …

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Twelve Hours of Temptation

Twelve Hours of Temptation | Shoma Narayanan | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Shoma Narayanan was the winner of the passions contest organised by Mills and Boon. Since receiving the award, she has been writing for Mills & Boon continuously for their Indian Author Collection. Monsoon Wedding Fever, another book authored by her, was the first …

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Svaha Pratik Kamat

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 …

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One Life to Love Vinaya Patil

One Life to Love | Vinaya Patil | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 When you pick this book up for reading, it seems like a book full of philosophy or rather, one based on the philosophy of love, life and friendship. At least that is what I assumed about it looking at the cover. But now …

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Love at Facebook by Nikita Singh

Love @ Facebook | Nikita Singh | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 If you would have ever browsed through the virtual lanes and alleys of Flipkart’s online bookstore, you must have surely come across the name of Nikita Singh, the young teenage author, who now has multiple bestsellers to her credit. Having never read a …

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The Collected Works of AJ Fikry

The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 There are many books that when you start reading, you find it a chore to go through the pages, hoping the story would either improve or end so that you can just be done with it. There are other books that are page-turners, …

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