The Casual Vacancy is set in a fictitious English town called Pagford. It begins with the death of Pagford’s Parish Councilor Barry Fairbrother. His unexpected death results in a Casual Vacancy which calls for an immediate election, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the local council estate.
Worst Case | James Patterson | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 “Worst Case” is my first James Patterson book. I’d heard so much about him and his books that I decided to give it a try. I must say, though this story would be excellent to watch on the big screen, as a novel […]
The Accidental Apprentice | Vikas Swarup | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Each one of us dreams of making it big in our lives. Some dream of becoming a cricketer, some want to win the Roadies, some want to be a civil servant & some want to become the CEO of a big company. So, […]
31 | Upendra Namburi | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Whenever you read 14 consecutive thrillers and fictions in two months’ span, believe me, you cannot read more without a well-deserved break. For some, this break could mean catching up on lost movies or seasons; or what I’d like to call “A Reader’s […]
The Guns of Navarone | Alistair Maclean | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 “A team bound on a mission to change the course of a war. A mission that promises no hope for survival as the odds are monumentally stacked against them. Yet, they go. For, if not them, there is no one else…” The Guns […]
The Shadow Throne | Aroon Raman | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Since Chetan Bhagat published his first teen novel “5 Point Someone” in 2004, a plethora of authors have flooded the Indian Literary scene. Many giants have emerged like Ashwin Sanghi, Amish Tripathi and Ravi Subramanian. Similarly, there were many others who came & […]
The Taj Conspiracy | Manreet Sodhi Someshwar | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “History + Mystery = The Taj Conspiracy” While doing my engineering, I had come across P.K.Oak’s conspiracy theory that Taj Mahal was, in fact, a Shiva temple called ‘Tejo Mahalay’. I had spent days researching the topic, reading historical literature, articles and conspiracies […]
The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 “One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that […]
The Suspect | Michael Robotham | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 I suffer from “Genre Craze”. For certain periods I pick a genre and read as many books as I can before the craze dies. Now it is Murder Mysteries & before that, it was Action/Adventure and before that Legal Thrillers. I was at the brink […]
The Matarese Circle | Robert Ludlum | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “Vasili Taleniekov, former director of the KGB – wanted by the Politburo. Brandon Scofield, the West’s most professional assassin, now considered dangerous and unstable by the State Department. These two men, sworn enemies, forced to join forces against a common enemy – The […]