Book Review: Meghna by Sundari Venkatraman

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About the Book: 

Title: Meghna
Author: Sundari Venkatraman
Publisher: Flaming Sun
Language: English
No. of pages: 173
Year of Publication: 2014
ASIN: B00KUPUURS
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The young and dashing Rahul Sinha lives in England with his parents, Shyam and Rajni. He is an only son of the rich banker. Rahul is totally attached to his father but does not care for his mother. Read the book to find out why…. Rahul is exulted with his efforts at work paying off and plans a holiday with his best friend Sanjay Srivastav who lives in Mumbai with his wife Reema, kids Sanya and Rehaan and most importantly, his sister, Meghna. Rahul recalls meeting Meghna just before they parted six years ago. Meghna works for a website and also teaches modern dance as she loves it. She’s thrown for a toss when Rahul comes visiting. She had thought he had forgotten them. But how could Rahul do that? Sanjay’s his best friend and Rahul had always treated their home as his own. Sanjay’s mother had been more of a mother to Rahul than his own. Rahul had stayed away after moving to England or so Meghna believes. Thus begins the story between Rahul and Meghna, the teasing, the flirting, the anger, the tears… …will they find love?

Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

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Cover: Rather mundane, not that attractive 

Pages: about 328 

Language: English, easy to understand 

Price: Rs 205 

Publisher: Harper Collins Publications 

Quality of the book: Very Good 

Fonts: Medium sized, Readable 

Characters: One main character, Rest supporting. 

Narration: First person 

Flow: Mostly Smooth, but has turning points 

Book Review: The Perfect Groom by Sumeetha Manikandan

Title: The Perfect Groom

Author: Sumeetha Manikandan

Cover: Could have been more intriguing

Language: English

ASIN: B00HDZOQ8M

Pricing: Rs. 175 / $2.99

Publisher: IndiReads

Quality: Good

Fonts: Readable

Characters: One Main Character

Narration: First Person

 

Language: Simple yet kept the reader connected

 

Flow: Smooth

 

Overall rating of the book: 4 stars

 

Book Review: You Cant Fight A Royal Attraction by Ruchi Vasudeva

 

ISBN: 9789351060574

Publisher: Harlequins Mills and Boons

Price: Rs. 125/-

Blurb:

The last thing Rihaan needs in his life is to play a host to a woman who drives him crazy! Saira is gorgeous, yes, but she's also widly infuriating.

Yet every time she comes within an inch of him he finds his normally iron-clad control slipping further and further away...

Wanting to protect herself from more heartbreak, Saira knows she should keep her distance from Rihaan -but there's something about him she just can't seem to resist... Little does she know that Rihaan is hiding a secret!

When it comes to light will it tear them apart -or raise their passion to new, more majestic heights?

Book Review: How I braved Anu Aunty & co-founded a million dollar company ~ Varun Agarwal

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Title: How I met Anu Aunty & co-founded a million dollar company - a true story

 

Author: Varun Agarwal

 

Rating: **** 1/2*

 

Cover: Anu aunty illustrated, standing in front of Varun's world & what's in it. Clearly an impediment.

 

Pages: about 250 in medium font.

Language: English, clear and lucid Price(less) at: Rs 140

Publisher: Rupa Publications

 

Quality of the book: Very Good

Fonts: Readable

 

Characters: Four main characters. Rest supporting.

Narration: First person

Flow: Smooth

 

Book Review: The Other Side by Faraaz Kazi and Vivek Banerjee

About the Book:

Title: The Other Side

Author/s: Faraaz Kazi and Vivek Banerjee

ISBN: 9789350880760

Publisher: Mahaveer Publishers | www.bookpremi.com (as mentioned on the back cover)

Language: English

No. of pages: 320

Year of Publication: 2013

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A slow rasping sound made me turn. I jumped back, the cell phone leaving my hands and smashing against the concrete floor. Someone was seated on the chair, rocking back and forth. Through the fallen light, I could see those hands placed on the arms of the chair, two gruesome wrinkled limbs with ugly boils plastered over the black skin. The red bangles on its wrists shone in my eyes, momentarily blinding me. That thing and I call it a thing because I could sense it wasn't human as no human could have such a hideous form, as vile an existence as the one seated opposite to my horrified self."

From a honeymoon in the hill that goes horribly wrong to an obsessed lover who wants his first love in life and in death; From a mentally deranged man who collects body parts of various women to stitch together his dream girl to a skeptic who enters a mansion of horrors to win a bet and much more, this book is filled with scenarios that are guaranteed to give you goosebumps and sleepless nights. 'The Other Side' is a collection of thirteen tales of the paranormal; a world that our eyes refuse to see, our ears deny hearing and our senses ignore the feel of. This is a book for someone who is brave enough to take up this invitation to journey through uncharted waters along with the authors, who were inspired by some bizarre experiences to pen down this work where the lines of reality have been blurred by the footsteps of imagination. Each story takes you on a tour de force of unadulterated horror and draws upon the deepest fear in the human mind- the fear of the UNKNOWN!

Book Review: Done with men by Shuchi Singh Kalra

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Title: Done with Men
Author: Shuchi Singh Kalra

Cover: Interesting
Language: English

ASIN: B00GO3H88Y
Flipkart Pricing: Rs 90

Publisher: IndiReads Incorporated
Quality of the book: Good

Fonts: Readable
Characters: Two main characters

Narration: First person
Flow: Smooth

Book Review: ‘Love, That Shit!’ by Chandru Bhojwani

‘Love, That Shit!’ by Chandru Bhojwani is published by Om Books International (2013), and is priced Rs.165 for paperback and Rs.157 for the kindle version in Amazon.in. It is a non-fiction of the self help genre. I received the ebook from the author for the reviewing purpose.

 

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Book Review: If I die Today – Shashi Deshpande

Book Details :

• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: RainLight (2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8129120496
• ISBN-13: 978-8129120496
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
• Amazon Price : INR296

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Book Review: Time's Lost Atlas

About the Book:

Title: Time's Lost Atlas
Author: Various Authors. (Anthology)
Compiler: Harsh Agarwal
ISBN: 9788192692
Publisher: Half Baked Beans Publishing
Language: English
No. of pages: 252
Year of Publication: 2014

 

Ready to travel to Pakistan, London, Nepal, China, New York, India, in one single book?

With 11 stories encompassing 11 major events of the last decade, this anthology is a concoction of tragedy, romance, mystery and thriller, brewed to perfection to ensure a nail biting experience.

 

Reminisce and relish the events which shook the world. Breathe the freshness of past, dive into the reasons that shaped the world as it is now, walk through your bygone times, fly across the continents marking your longest journey ever - for you hold the Time's Lost Atlas in your hand.

Book Review: The Curse of that Night by Rochak Bhatnagar

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Author: Rochak Bhatnagar

ISBN: 9789380914664

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: General Press

Number of pages: 186

Genre: Fiction

Language: English

Price: Rs.140 (Got a review copy from publishers)

 

Book Review: The One You Cannot Have by Preeti Shenoy

Book- The One You Cannot Have.

Author- PreetiShenoy.

Publisher- Westland. Westlandbooks.in

Pages- 270.

Book Review- Ten Shades of Life- Collection of Award Winning Short Stories by Fablery

The book’s cover is a mish mash of animated drawings on a bright orange colored background. I suppose the idea was to highlight the diversity of the contents inside, but it turns out to be a little confusing and chaotic. The back has the names of all the contributors and the genres they wrote in. I personally think the title of the book could have been a little more innovative; the use of the word “shades” has become too clichéd.

 

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Rearview- My Roadies Journey - A book review

Starting today we begin a new segment on our blog - The Book Reviews. As always our bloggers have given their valuable feedback on each of these books very delectably chosen and dissected. We believe Indian authors have a lot of potential and talent to be nurtured further to make them international best sellers. Our attempt at bringing you the best of them.

 

Happy Reading!