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 […]