SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 INFORMATIONAL QUOTIENT: 4/5 It won the 2011 “Financial Times/Goldman Sachs” Best Business Book of the Year Award and it comes recommended from none other than the Nobel winning… [Continue Reading]
Postcard Killers | James Patterson | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 James Patterson can write a million novels in a year because most of his novels are co-authored by someone else. The Postcard Killers… [Continue Reading]
Priestess of the White | Trudi Canavan | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I picked up Trudy Canavan’s Priestess of the White from a second-hand bookstore without having read any of her previous books. I was intrigued… [Continue Reading]
Facebook Phantom | Suzanne Sangi | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARCATERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 She is young, she is energetic and she is an author..!! Barely out of high school, Suzanne Sangi has achieved what most of… [Continue Reading]
The Casual Vacancy | J.K. Rowling | Book Review
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… [Continue Reading]
The Homing Pigeons | Sid Bahri | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The Homing Pigeons is a debut novel by an ex hotelier-turned-banker-turned-outsourcing professional-turned-author Sid Bahri. The author attempts at narrating a “larger-than-life love story”… [Continue Reading]
The Test of My Life | Yuvraj Singh | Book Review
This review first appeared on Sports Keeda. SUBJECT: 4/5 APPEAL: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 What comes to your mind first, the moment you hear the name ‘Yuvraj Singh’? ‘6 6s’ or ‘Man… [Continue Reading]
55 A Novel | Chetan Chhatwal | Book Review
PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 “Arjun Singh is a typical South Delhi brat whose biggest worry is securing a much coveted seat in one of the city’s top… [Continue Reading]
Sahibs Who Loved India | Khushwant Singh | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Sahibs who loved India takes you back in time, it takes you through the period when India was ruled by the British; British who hated… [Continue Reading]
Zombiestan | Mainak Dhar | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 We at BookGeeks.in got a chance to review two of Mainak Dhar’s books – ‘Alice in Deadland’ & ‘Zombiestan’. We were new to… [Continue Reading]
A Prisoner of Birth | Jeffrey Archer | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 “If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged… [Continue Reading]