Forsaken by Desire by S. Shekhar is a romance, with the right amount of drama and passion mixed with it. It is gorgeously written – just the right words, the right adjectives, the right dialogues. The romance isn’t too cheesy, and yet it delivers the perfect amount of butterfly-in-the-tummy moments.
And Still My Heart Beats | Sourabh Suman | Book Review
PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 And Still My Heart Beats is Sourabh Suman’s debut novel which tells the story of two teenage sweethearts – Rehan and Anya. It aspires to be a cute teenage love story and succeeds to a very large extent. The Plot – The story […]
Just Graduate | Neetika Bhatnagar | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The dazzling lights, the boisterous crowd, excited family and friends and all the shenanigans brighten up the atmosphere of yet another big fat Indian wedding that entwines two families together. As everyone, from both the families, leaves no stone unturned to make sure […]
Trust Me Not | Ankita Verma Datta | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5CHARACTERS: 4.5/5WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5CLIMAX: 4.5/5ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Where I Muse When I was done reading “Trust Me Not”, it took me a lot of time to decide the genre I would put the book in. The book has elements of a political thriller, romance and drama. To classify it into one genre would be […]
Mesmerising Aura of Love | Roshan Kothari | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 What is the storyline? Romance is a genre which will never go out of fashion. There are always readers who enjoy reading about love blooming and blossoming into eternal love stories. “Mesmerising Aura of Love” is a book which not just tells us […]
This is Not Your Story | Savi Sharma | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The Hype Having read Everyone Has a Story by the same author, I had almost written off “This is Not Your Story” as another mediocre and seriously hyped book, but, when one day I mustered the courage to finally read it, I was […]
Windfall | Jennifer E. Smith | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 “Windfall” is a novel by the U.S. based young adult writer Jennifer E. Smith who is most famously known for her works “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight”, “This is What Happy Looks Like” and “The Geography of You and Me”. […]
This Can’t Be Happening | Neha Singh | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Essentially a college romance After a long time, I picked up a college romance; after 12 books precisely because the last college romance that I read was Our Story Needs No Filter by Sudeep Nagarkar. “This Can’t Be Happening” is the story of […]
Our Story Needs No Filter | Sudeep Nagarkar | Book Review
“Our Story Needs No Filter” is a tale of friendship, love and the fight against odds. PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 My Tryst with Sudeep Nagarkar While I have enjoyed most of Sudeep’s books – You Are Trending in My Dreams, You are the Password to My Life, and […]
You are My Reason to Smile | Arpit Vageria | Book Review
PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 What got me in? I was looking for short Kindle reads for some light nighttime reading when I came across “You are My Reason to Smile”. The title is one of those cheesy ones which are meant to capture and captivate but honestly, […]
Everyone Has a Story | Savi Sharma | Book Review
PLOT: 2.5/5CHARACTERS: 2.5/5WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5CLIMAX: 2/5ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 After seeing “Everyone Has a Story” break many records, I was very keen on reading this one. Savi Sharma is credited with being India’s first successful self-published author. Her book was first self-published and after selling like hotcakes, she was offered a deal from Westland. And that […]
Baaz | Anuja Chauhan | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Anuja Chauhan needs no introductions. She has been rightly hailed as the best writer of commercial fiction in India. Her signature writing is characterized by a unique plot, awesome characters and loads and tons of entertainment. It is highly likely thus, that her […]