Sunday 11 September 2016

Review of Betwixt twists and turns

Book- Betwixt Twists and Turns
Authoress-Mona Mohanty
Genre- Anthology
Blurb
Dragonflies are said to be harbingers of rain, but they may be much more for one unsuspecting women. A household dog finds a reprieve when Grandma comes to stay. A young man stops by an ATM at night and finds himself encountering robbers - and a young women who may not be what she seems.

In Betwixt Twists and Turns , author Mona Mohanty born from random thoughts that popped up out of nowhere , overheard bits of conversation ,parables of family lore, and anecdotes from friends. These tales comes from a variety of viewpoints - an older women who receives an unexpected telegram, a businessman who encounters what might be a ghost , and various animals sharing their impressions of human life. These stories vividly captures the routine of existence - but with a surprising twist.
This collection of short stories set in India features tales with unexpected outcomes from a wide range of perspectives , both human and animals.

About the book
The anthology consists of 25 beautiful short stories which are different from another but made an deep impression. The narration is done in a dynamic way that one can easily connect from the story .
I congratulate Author for this wonderful book  . Every story was written with a keen observation and deep thought. I like In the Mind's eyes and A meeting a lot.

Ratings
Cover- 4/5
Narration-4/5
Title-3/5
Overall rateings- 3.5/5

Available at Amazon

Wednesday 27 July 2016

Review : 2 Peg Ke Baad

Title- 2 Peg Ke Baad
Authoress- Nikita Lalwani
Genre- Anthology

Blurb

2 Peg me Bad brings together 14 short stories that happened after 2 pegs , in an inebriated state. World's greatest stories are created when people are high - masterpiece are painted, universal truths are realised , models on billboards are befriended , lovers are united , butts are kicked, confessions are made , relationships are sorted.
The book started as a blog with people from across the world sharing their stories, ideas, confessions and beliefs ,and the elixir of the 14 best stories is here to reveal what lies beyond a conscious mind.
Though the book does not intend to encourage drinking alcohol in any sense,
here's to celebrate every emotion that kicks after a few pegs. Cheers!

Review

The title itself is very catchy " 2 Peg Ke Baad " . There are 14 different stories which happened after 2 pegs . All stories were interesting ,you will not loose your interest while reading . Every story is full of suspense , great job Author. Language and narration is well written. Even new reader can read it well.

Ratings
Cover-4/5
Narrations-4/5
Title-3.5/5
Overall rateings- 3.8/5

Available in Amazon and Flipkart grab your copy now!

Wednesday 30 March 2016

Review of Love forever @Rajpath by Kalpana Mishra

Book-Love forever@Rajpath
Authoress-Kalpana Mishra
Genre-Romance
Blurb- True love can blossom anywhere, in a government set-up too, and can be as permanent as the job itself. Shalini, a government employee, strongly feels that there is no point in getting married and joining the brigade of abused wives. Till she is swept off her feet by Kartik, a dynamic colleague from Bihar. Just when her faith in the system of love and marriage is rekindledand at its peak, Kartik goes missing. Her search for him reveals some dark secrets about Zabaria Shaadi still existing in Bihar, where eligible boys are abducted or forced for marriage. A love story at its core, Love Forever @ Rajpath highlights the predicaments of a girl on the verge of losingher most precious relationship. It also reflects the inner turmoil of a young boy sandwiched between age-old traditions and his own liberated opinions. Will Shalini be able to save her relationship? Will Kartik acknowledge her efforts or will he abandon her for the sake of his family?

Review
This is a beautiful love story of Shalini and Kartik both government employees. As always in every love story there are lots of ups and downs. While reading I felt like its a story of you , me and all of us. I must appreciate Author for beautifully done its narrations.
This book is a must for all who like love stories. I must congratulate the author for your first book , well written.

Favourite quote
” Daughters are the reason for a family’s happiness. I believe in your capabilities, you too need to have faith in yourself. “

Rateings
Cover-4.5/5
Narration-4/5
Title-3.5/5
Overall rateing-4/5

You can order it from http://www.amazon.com/Love-Forever-Rajpath-Approved-proposed/dp/9382665641

Thursday 11 February 2016

Review of Dear mom with love an anthology

Book- Dear Mom with love.
Authors-
Guest Authors-Nehali Lalwan , Sabi Shaikh
Contributors- Arjun Bhattacharya , San Spans , Aashisha Chakraborthy , Neeti Banga , Gaurav Somwanshi , Renu Yadav, Gurdeep Singh Kohli ,Kamal Jain, Medha Sarkar, Menu Yadav , Neha Ghosh , Preet Kaur , Rachna Iyer , Sumeet Gulabani , Shalini Samuel.
Published by- Shlok Publishers
Price- 120

Review
This book is about one of the most beautiful ,most purest, selfless relationship of a mother. All stories in this anthology are made up of emotional feeling and with a greatest blessing of all mother. Every story has a grip which revolves around in the most adorable relation of mother. I enjoyed every story and this book is a gratitude for this wonderful creature on earth mother.

Rateings

Title- 4/5
Cover-2/5
Narration-3/5
Overall ratings -3/5

A beautiful gift for your mother and must  read for all .
Happy reading!

Review of Was it really love? An anthology

Book- Was it really love?
Authors- Akash Khonde , Himali Patil , Akash Rumade , Sweta Kerkar , Kumar Vikrant , Dr.Nayab Patel , Nidhi Parekh, Maheema Mishra , Samriddhi Garg, Rajendra Kumar ,Indrajeet Singh , Gaurav Dubey
Published by- Arusha Books India
Price- 150

Blurb

When you are totally hopeless someone walks into your life. Your life starts to get  back on track but before your life gets back on track.
Destiny strikes and the person leaves you all alone...without giving a reason clueless.

Review

This is a collection of heart melting stories which touches everyone's heart. We all go through love once in a life but sometimes destiny strikes and person leave us alone. All poems and stories are full of emotions. I really like the narration done by authors. This book is compilation of eight stories and four poems which gives us a lifetime experiences .This book is special and it connects with our life.

Favourite quotations
"A zillion crowd we come across
  Amidst the lane of Myth
  Only few are the chosen ones
  To complete the journey with".

Rateings
Cover-4/5
Title-3.5/5
Narration-3.5/5
Overall rateings -3.5/5

Happy reading!

Review of Girls Paradise an anthology

Book- Girls Paradise an anthology
Authors- Kumar Vikrant , Sweta Kerkar , Dr.Nayab Patel , Nidhi Parikh , Shadab Ashraf , Smriti Kumari , Snighdha Jha , Virendra Soni , Monojit Data
Genre- Anthology
Published by- Arusha books India
Price- 120

Blurb

Girls Paradise is a collection of short stories and poems. It will take you through the journey of problems like domestic violence , honour killing , eve teasing, disrespect which most of the girls face in their lives , due to the evil in the society .

Review
This book contains stories and poems revolving around women's. I love the idea of an anthology on such a major issue on journey of problems for women's. Being a girl I can easily relate to all stories and poems. Every stories and poems is full of emotions I too cried while reading. Writing on such a powerful topic is really appreciative .Idea was very beautiful I congratulate Akash Khonde for his idea.

Rateings
Cover-4/5
Title-3/5
Stories-4/5
Overall rateings- 4/5

This book is must for everyone to experience reading how different journey of girls paradise for a women.
Happy reading!

Review of Raksha Bandhan an anthology

Book- Raksha Bandhan
Genre- Anthology
Authors- Akash Rumade ,Kirti Garg ,Lalima Yadav, Nidhi, Nidhi Parekh,Shalini Samuel ,Smriti Kumari , Somali Bash ,Ummul Fazal Fatima Khan
Published by - Arusha Books India
Price-140

Blurb

Raksha bandhan is a season that upholds an unique sense of camaraderie that emanates from a brother-sister relationship. This anthology would ensure a newer and a finer crux of this beautiful kinship through the sui-generis expressions and emotions that contributing writers have wished to share amongst the readers.
This book was the result of a neat amalgamation of stories and emotions put together by several talented writers as well as the aspiring ones.
This wouldn't have been viable if every writer didn't spill a certain sui generis flair of expression into every word that they wrote.

Review
This anthology made a deep impression in my heart , while reading stories I was connecting with every story as if I was living them. This books has a perfect stories by wonderful authors. I like its theme for the most unique and lovely relationship of brother and sisters.
Every story in this anthology is full of emotions  and both poems are beautiful.

Rateings

Stories- 4/5
Cover design-3.5/5
Title-2.5/5
Overall rateings- 3.5/5

Recommended to every brother and sister.
Enjoy reading!

Thursday 21 January 2016

Review of The shadow of the dark soul by Sukhmani Gandhi

Blurb

Zayesha is a twenty something journalist working in Delhi. Sensitive and compassionate she is a league apart from her contemporaries,who believe in the mantra of manufacturing or making news. Concerned by her boss,she fights against time to work on the Nirbhaya case in order to save her job. Synchronicity plays a crucial life-altering role in her life when a series of events make her question herself during this phase ,Zayesha comes across The Shadow of the Dark Soul, thanks to her next door neighbor. Nothing stays the same afterwards as Zayesha is made to reassess everything. Will she manage to finish her report on time ? How far will she go to step from armchair activism into the realities of life? Will she win in the end?
The questions are many but the answers lie within "THE SHADOW OF THE DARK SOUL"

Review

The shadow of the dark soul is basically about "Change , what we want to see in the world". Being a debut novel , the way Sukhmani Gandhi present such a wonderful story. The story also interacted  with the real survivors , the pain they go through and how they overcome is remarkable. The best thing in this book is its fantastic message, when we want a change in our society first we need to change,rather then only talking about change.I had tears in my eyes , when the girl said 'raped daughter'.
This book revolves around Zaisha , a journalist who is assaigned research work on  The Nirbhaya case by his boss. Being a journalist she has to submit her research on time otherwise , she will be fired from her job.
What happened in The shadow of the dark place? What changed her mind?

Positives

I like the way author presented the story despite being a crucial topic,  the love story gives us a break. The way they respected their love was cute. The title and the story itself touches my heart.

Negatives

There are some errors which should be omitted .

Favourite Quotes

“It's not that there is a need of women like me. Actually we don’t need men like them.”

"The shadow of the dark soul is one that scares you of your own existence."

Rateings

Cover- 3/5
Title-4.5/5
Characters-4/5
Overallrateing -4/5
 
I congratulate Sukhmani Gandhi for her beautiful masterpiece.

Recommendations
A must read for each and everyone who needs a change in humanity.

Available at Amazon
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Friday 15 January 2016

Review of Second Spring by Sandhya Jane

Blurb

This is Avantika's heartfelt journey through love and life...
As a smart, successful, thirty-eight-year-old single mother, Avantika seemingly has it all: a great career as a seasoned banking professional, respect and admiration from her peers as an able leader , fulfillment as a mother, and so many other things. What is it , that drives her towards Ronan , a man six years junior? He is  who ideally would not occupy much room in Avantika's otherwise sorted mind space. She has told herself she has no time for love. Then why does she make the choices she makes? Is it the emotional vacuum? A need to relive life? A feeling that life as she has truly lived and felt is passing by her by?
However, she struggles with her feelings, Avantika and Rohan part ways....only to meet again. To what end? Why does Rohan want her back...and why now? So many questions! Very few answers!
Can love give second chances?

Review

This is a heart melting story deals with Avantika and Rohan. The story is narrated in two parts, part one deals with love story between Avantika and Rohan and best part is step by step their love is proceeding with hardships. After playing hide and seek with their feelings they finally had a confession. Life is full of uncertainty, so with the love birds.
Second part is about new start in Avantika's life. It seems you are reading a fresh part and second part is full of suspense which grabs readers attention more.
I loved the end which I never thought will happen and it was wonderful. I enjoyed reading this book.
The style of writing was simple yet full of emotions  and book comprises of Avantika's and Rohan's viewpoint  which is quite different but interesting.

Positives

I really like the style of narrating full of emotions. All the characters are strongly built and I like Avantika's character through all hardships she managed everything well in her career being a single parent. I also like its ending which gives us a message to be in real present.

Negatives

There's no need for extra explanation in the story. In the second part  at the starting, Rahul's character was ignored  and when I read about him  I was  bit bored.

Favourite quote

Life is beautiful. Life is great.
It has no place for confusion, no time for regrets ,and no chance for living in the past....just the present and today seems to be a "real present".

Rateings

Cover-4/5
Title-4.5/5
Characters-3.5/5
Overall rateing- 4/5

This is a story based on destiny and all the audience who like love stories must read.