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Reading realistic young adult fiction is really my thing and I can't deny this fact anymore. All the books which I read in this genre have a reputation as a heartbreaker. "The Fault In Our Stars" is a romantic drama that shows how love can be beautiful but also unsettling when faced with death.
Rootless | Kaushik Roy | Book Review
The attachment of love is above everything once you bond with a person bcoz of love even death can't make you apart from that special person. That kind of love makes you stronger and courageous and makes you do the craziest things. You need not be a lover for that believe me on this.
Shahil Kabir, a young IT professional, has grown up in a middle-class family with his father and grandmother. He loses his mother at a young age and so the grandmother is the one whom he is most attached to. A 9 to 5 job and small lovely family is the paradise of Shahil.
But chaos always finds a way into paradise and the same happens with Shahil when his grandmother passed away. He discovers some personal letters from her and reading them he smells that his biological grandfather can be someone else.
He decides to visit his grandmother's birthplace in Bangladesh to dwell deep into the mystery to unravel the real identity of his grandfather.
Will he succeed in resolving his identity crisis? Will the journey turn his life topsy-turvy?
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The book Rootless by Kaushik Roy is a brilliant book if we talk about the facts, miniscule details and dates.
Dance In The Rain | Shreya Dutta | Book Review
I'm not much into poetry but whenever I get a chance to read a book of poetry I'm always up to read it. Dance in the rain by Shreya Dutta is a collection of the finest poems I have ever read.
This book is a collection of myriad topics ranging from the trauma of a lover, the utter pain of a break-up, child abuse, the voice of a woman. The Poet put everything into the spotlight with her words.
The poetess has exceptional brilliance in her skills to create wonders through her words and to evoke the souls of the readers. I found her writing is a way of storytelling. In every poem which you read you find a character, a conflict, and a message. This makes her poems a captivating read.
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Dance in the rain by Shreya Dutta is a collection of the finest poems I have ever read.
His Holiness: The Dalai Lama | Book Review
If you know nothing about the Dalai Lama and Buddhism or Tibetian Buddhism and you have a curiosity to know something about it, then you should read this brief introduction.
In this book, you are going to know the whole process of choosing the next Dalai Lama, and how the Dalai Lama was reborn, again and again. And there is a bit of insight about the 13th and current Dalai Lama, his daily routines, schedules, and diet.
The rebirth thing was new to me. It was exceptional and unbelievable for me that the same soul of the first Dalai Lama is reborn from time to time. The book is more contained with information and less with wisdom and inspiration.
There are many quotes of the Dalai Lama which made this short read a very valuable treasure. These quotes are very simple in language and still have remarkable truthfulness and wisdom within.
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In this book you are going to know the whole process of choosing the next Dalai Lama, and how the Dalai Lama was reborn, again and again.
Ice Town | Akash Rathod | Book Review
Akash Rathod what a writer he is! I'm eagerly waiting to read more of his books because this debut Ice Town book of his is a remarkable creation. I loved the book so much. The first 25 pages of the book were intense and tremendously emotional.
The excerpts which included Sagar's parents' story were heart-wrenching and I had to take a long pause before reading further. There was immense pain in those particular excerpts which can compel anyone to cry or feel vulnerable.
The most impactful part of the book was the involuntary decision of Sagar which led him to a journey where he became a better person. As a reader, I felt those changes in me too. This book came up with a lot of power which you can read, feel and see; the power of spirituality, love, hope, rebellion, revolution, and mostly the power of self-belief.
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The book Ice Town by Akash Rathod starts with an episode of 26/11 where the heart of India, Mumbai was going through a God-awful trauma.
Shaadi Ka Laddoo | Chaitali Hatiskar | Book Review
Whenever I talk or write about this book "Shaadi Ka Laddoo" I get an ear-to-ear smile on my face. So basically I'm smiling while writing this book review; recalling the scenarios of the book.
This book just doesn't have the chucklesome excerpts only but it has that intermittent cozy romance that goes between Ved and Akira which is intriguing. Their romance puts the pause on the chaos which goes all around them in the whole story and lets them dwell in the world of unsaid Love, cuddles, kisses, and hopes.
Shaadi Ka Laddoo by Chaitali Hatiskar is a hilarious story of bonkers who are connected in the form of love and family bonds. The storyline of the book mainly focuses on one's exterior and internal relationship with family and how it's always important to put your family first.
The second highlight of the book is; the storyline of the book which tries to explain to the reader how necessary it is to know your partner before taking big steps in your relationship; you can't rely on attraction or the sake of love only in a long term relationship.
The concept of the book follows typical Indian Bollywood rom-com like; enemies become friends and friends become lovers through all the scenes of this book is new and refreshing and doesn't follow up any cliches. The sarcasm quips, and repartee which goes between Aroras and Ahluwalias are too hysterical.
Shaadi Ka Laddoo by Chaitali Hatiskar is a hilarious story of bonkers who are connected in the form of love and family bonds. Here is the bo
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Hard Rain | Irma Venter | Book Review
Alex Darkesen, a journalist from South Africa, got his next project in Tanzania. A city of bright and sunny days and scorching nights, but the people of the country are great hosts. Alex saw Ranna for the first time in a wedding ceremony, he never believes in love, and love, at first sight, is an alien concept for him but he falls for her, it takes time to accept that he loves her.
But then the night comes, the rain is falling hard and she appears at her usual spot, her shoulder is wounded and her white t-shirts are all wrapped in her blood. But she acts in front of him as nothing happens at all.
That is the first drop of the mystery; clouds of chaos start looming over Alex and Ranna. Ranna doesn't like conversations or more firmly if I say, she doesn't like interrogation. She flees from Dar to Korogwe, a place full of butterflies and flower fields.
After barging into Ranna's rented room and sending her copious texts and more than a hundred calls, he finds her there in Korogwe; capturing the most beautiful creatures. They argue and argue and at last, they confess how much they love each other, and the romantic moment fades the tension for a while.
The "Hard Rain" by Irma Venter brings with it a downpour of mystery. A billionaire named Belly Jones, a popular business tycoon of the USA has been swept away by the flood with his multi-story house. His body has been found onshore and the discoverers of the body were Alex and Ranna.
Further investigation of police officer Hamisi puts all the fingers of suspicion on Ranna and when he digs more into her past he finds out wherever she goes, whoever she loves, they all are dead. She was always the prime suspect of all the deaths.
Officer warned Alex about Ranna and asked for his help. Is Ranna a serial killer? What will Alex do after knowing he is the next target? Will Alex help the police to take his love of life behind the bars or he'll choose to die with his lover Ranna?
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The "Hard Rain" by Irma Venter brings with it a downpour of mystery. A billionaire named Belly Jones, a popular business tycoon. Here is the
Once Upon A Spy | Suvash Dev | Book Review
YOU DON’T CHOOSE THE WORLD OF ESPIONAGE
THE WORLD OF ESPIONAGE CHOOSES YOU.
And this very statement goes with you once you become a spy. The choices you want to employ and the decisions you have to make; mostly have a difference of day and night. You have no right to opt; the power to choose your fate is in the hands of those who know politics more than anything else. Those power holders decide when to evacuate you and when to disown you.
The book "Once Upon A Spy" by Suvash Dev, puts the spotlight on the system, which goes around the life of any agency's spy. It doesn't matter if you belong to RAW, ISI, or Mi6. Once you get into the political games of superiors, they will push you toward the verge of death without thinking twice or they will thrust you in a pit where death can be easier and life must be god awful for you.
A patriot agent never fears death, but dying as a traitor is a curse. Vishwamitra Saini an Indian Spy, has been caught by ISI agents when he was cracking some kind of deal that involves national confidential information of Indian projects. He has been manhandled and tortured horribly by the cruel bureaucrats of the Pakistan army.
He isn't able to breathe properly from his badly broken nose and neither is he able to reckon which part is aching as he is feeling like every part of his body has been broken. He yields at last.
He gets two choices; either he turns traitor to his own country or dies bit by bit in the lifeless bunker, where heartless soldiers serve cruelest tortures on his platter every day. What choice Vishwamitra will make? And what kinds of consequences and repercussions he and the whole nation will need to pay for it? Is Vishwamitra really a traitor?
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Death's Door | Paul Finch | Book Review
Suppose you're a woman who lives in a big house all on her own and you're all new to the neighborhood and the city; as a young woman, for living you run a business of yours, and after work, you spend your evenings and nights in the house of yours.
A watchful eye always fixates on your house, scrutinizing your routines and activities. Looking for your appearance, your silhouette. The watchful eye weaving a story in his head where you're the love of his life; he loves you like Romeo and expects the Juliet kind of passionate love from you.
It doesn't matter to him whether you know him or not, in his mind, he meets you every day. One day when the thin line between his whimsy imagination and your normal reality fades. He will come out from the dark pavements where he used to hide himself to keep an eye on you, he will cross the road and bushes and will unlock your house from the spare key which you never give him but he always has.
As you see him, he will exclaim before you shriek, "Honey I'm home". Don't freak out seeing sharp steel in his hand, which he took from your kitchen, because if your reactions hurt his feelings he will penetrate the knife in your stomach, and mutilate incessantly, till his temper calms down.
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"Death's Door" by Paul Finch is a short story that revolves around Heck and Gemma and their investigations; they are in the CID department,
The Text| Claire Douglas | Book Review
A life full of notifications alerts, haptic typing on the keyboard of your smartphone, sending and receiving copious text day and night. But then a term called autocorrect comes into our lives and changes our life completely; it starts correcting things according to its efficiency, which increases the typos and invites farce at our doorstep.
The Text by Claire Douglas is a fast-paced thriller short story, which revolves around the main character of the story, Emily Latimer. She is a working woman who works in an office under her boss Andrew, who is fastidious and hard to handle. He is a difficult person in his professional and personal life; in his department, most of his staff doesn't like him.
Emily is planning to go with her friends on a vacation to Edinburgh, but her cruel boss refuses and doesn't give her leave. It singes the brain of Emily and when she is cruising back home in her office buddy's car, she is ranting about her boss Andrew and cursing him all the bad fortune, in the meantime, she is also typing a text to her boyfriend, Stuart, with whom she lives.
She is telling in her text, how her vacation plan goes in a shithole and who is the reason behind it and how that person is godly awful and what that person truly deserves. She fired off the send button without giving it a last glimpse and the text, unfortunately, is sent to her office group with a chaotic typo which brings cops to her doorstep the next day.
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Life In Different Colours | Pratik P Sharda | Book Review
Life has more colours than a rainbow, though rainbow and life, both are symbols of hope and happiness. But when we humans start focusing on a particular kind of color of life, it becomes monotonous or illusional for us.
The book "Life In Different Colours" by Pratik P Sharda comes up with a list of shades of life ranging from love, romance, dreams, ambitions to drama, depression, loneliness. Everything is packed in this single book which holds 12 short stories.
Every story has a different end, some will blow your mind, some will touch your heart and some grisly ones will shake your feet. The author intended to entertain and add value to his audience by the stories of this book and he pretty much succeeded.
Writing and narration are easy and lucid to read. In some stories, I felt that the narration and conversations of the characters become monotonous, it felt like the narration has lost the picturesqueness of it in most of the stories.
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The book "Life In Different Colours" by Pratik P Sharda comes up with a list of shades of life ranging from love, romance, dreams, ambitions
It's Got To Be Love | Prashant Kaul | Book Review
"It's Got to be Love '' by Prashant Kaul is a fictional drama book. Whenever Dev sees a nightmare, it becomes a god awful truth the next day, which shrieks his heart. He is an introverted and meek kind of guy who always becomes an easy target for bullies. But when he moves to college, one day a sports coach sees him fighting with a senior where Dev is the victim.
Which after the coach opts to train him so he can stand for himself in the brawls. Dev's diligence and perseverance become worthy with the passing month and he becomes a martial arts expert. Later he becomes popular in the college and falls in love with a junior named Carol, though soon misunderstanding crosses their path and they fall apart.
With a broken heart, he becomes devastated, and handling his and his pet life becomes exhausting for him, but there is a light of hope by his side. She is a Facebook friend of Dev and her name is Vaani. She always supported him in his ups and downs, and later Dev fell in love with her and he put his life in soul-taking dangers to save hers.
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"It's Got to be Love '' by Prashant Kaul is a fictional drama book. Here is a review of the book.
See You Soon | NC Marshall | Book Review
What can you do for your friend? A friend whom you haven't met or interacted with for 15 years; if that friend asks for your help in a most unusual way by sending you an email. Are you going to help that friend of yours? But for that, you have to go to your hometown where the air still holds the smell of your eerie past. Now tell me, are you going to help your friend? Are you a good friend?
Emily Moore is a waitress by profession and lives a workaholic and stressful life, though everything soothes as she comes home and embraces her daughter Lucy.
One fine day, opening an old friend's email whom she hasn't talked to in 15 years, becomes a profuse debt for her to pay. The mail isn't inviting Emily for a reunion, but it is a desperate plea from her childhood friend Ali, who is in some kind of terrible trouble which isn't mentioned in the mail.
A day's inquiry leads Emily to the groundbreaking news that her friend Ali is missing and it takes Emily to the lands of her hometown, years back, where she takes oaths not to visit it in her life ever. But that mysterious mail and destiny ensnare her as soon as she inhales the air of that city.
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An outstanding start which puts the stacks high for the book "See You Soon" by NC Marshall, I started assuming that it is going to be an int
No Matter What I Do; I End Up Falling For You | Devanshi Sharma | Book Review
This story is set in Bhopal where the sole trustee of the SVS group of medical institutions, Mrs. Suhasini Khanna wants to resign and opts to give her power to her younger son Kushank, who doesn't have any knowledge of medicine. He is fond of business and marketing, but his mother's trust in him compelled him to take the responsibility.
However, he is an under confident guy who avoids leadership. Other hand, Amaira Roy belongs to Delhi, where she lives with her elder brother Kabir Roy. She wants to be a doctor and she got admission to SVS college. She is totally the opposite of Kushank in conduct.
She is a carefree, young, rebellious, and beautiful girl who loves to play football on rainy nights on the road. Their first interaction is an awkward one, but gradually they become friends. But Kushank always thinks about the SVS before anyone else and this creates chaos in their friendship and life.
While on the other hand, in Delhi one more love story of Kabir and Suhani is gradually growing. They both seem like carbon copies of Amaira and Kushank in personality. However, their dreams and situations are different. Kabir is an intelligent nerd who turns into a politician. He is a swell president of his college union.
He loves to be in the limelight. Suhani enters his life, who belongs to an orthodox middle-class family and they don't leave a single chance to suppress and humiliate her, about her decision to follow her dreams and study. She is a great singer, but her upbringing makes her personality a pry of dependence.
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World's Best Boyfriend | Durjoy Datta | Book Review
This is my fourth book by the same author, Durjoy Datta. I just love his work. I'm a huge fan of his writing and his lifestyle and the way he is. His overall persona and vivacity all make me inspired. Okay, now I'm gonna talk about the story.
So, primarily this is a story that revolves around two teenagers Dhruv And Aranya. Both just get piles of negligence and humiliation from their surroundings and it compels them to become isolated in their world. Aranya has a skin disease, vitiligo, because of that, everyone on and off humiliates her and behaves repulsively with her, especially her parents and brother who treats her like a piece of shit.
While on the other hand, Dhruv is facing problems because his parents are going to separate soon and rumors are torrid in school that his mother is having an affair with the school principal. These things chisel the mindset of Dhruv by negativity and he becomes a rebel against the whole world.
Dhruv and Aranyas' isolation is the main reason that they get closer to each other. But destiny has other plans for them and their ways part when she lies and he exaggerates her lie to the next level and makes her lie a god-awful nightmare for her. Usually, Things that we want to avoid spring in front of us like a stubborn kid who is seeking attention or worst mocking us.
The same thing happens to Aranya and Dhruv when they are praying to God that they would never cross paths with each other and wish death for each other. Fate plays its role and they meet in the same college after eight years. Where the cat and mouse show begins. They never miss a chance to hurt each other and fill all their precious occupation of their mind and heart from thoughts of each other. Is this a hate story or a love story in disguise of hatred? To know that, grab your copy.
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World's Best Boyfriend by Durjoy Datta This is my fourth book by the same author, Durjoy Datta. I just love his work. I'm a huge fan of his
DNA Dad's Not Adopted | Shikha Kaul | Book Review
The main character of the story is an opulent business tycoon. Who is famous in the whole nation. He is all busy making money and extending his business all over the world and earning profit from all possible ways. But his life changes when a girl from Thailand comes to India and claims that she is his daughter. She files a case against him to get his name and her inheritance.
Thereafter one after another, mysterious secrets are revealed. At one point, The girl is killed in the house of that opulent man, who is supposed to be her father and then a new quest begins which has drama, suspense, mysteries, action, romance, and some unexpected revelations.
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"DNA Dad's Not Adopted" by Shikha Kaul The main character of the story is an opulent business tycoon. Who is famous in the whole nation.
My Mute Girlfriend | Himanshu Rai | Book Review
What I liked the most in the book was Rohan's faith in his love. Vedehi stays muted and she wasn't ready to give him any reason for it. But it was Rohan who never gave up on their love. He always knew that she loved him. He has faith that someday she will come back to him.
And the climax was just above my imagination. While reading, I estimated many ends of the story but then, when I read the climax I got amazed by it. Things that I read were purely unconditional love.
Thank you so much Himanshu sir for gifting me this unconditional love story to read.
If any filmmaker makes a movie adapting this book's story. It will become a super hit romantic movie.
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