Life of a bookworm

THE DIARY ON THE FIFTH FLOOR AUTHOR: RAISHA LALWANI PUBLISHER: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA GENRE: REALISTIC FICTION       PUBLICATION DATE: 21st OCTOBER, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 167 GOODREADS RATING: 4.13/5 (104 Ratings) MY RATING: 4/5     " The choices we make define the kind    Of people we then become.   The main question here is:   Do we like who we have become?" BLURB: A woman leaves her infant at home but finds her on a busy street in an unexpected turn of events. Another woman wakes up in a flight hours later, befuddled, in the strangest circumstance.   A fascinating tale of a twenty-five-year-old woman that takes hold of us from the moment she enters the fifth floor of a hospital; more precisely, the psychiatric ward. Visibly terrified, she clutches at her clothbound diary, caught in the horns of a terrible dilemma—whether or not to hand over the diary to the doctor. She fears t...

ONCE UPON AN IAS EXAM AUTHOR: K. VIJAYAKARTHIKEYAN PUBLISHER: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA GENRE: CONTEMPORARY FICTION PUBLICATION DATE: 20th OCTOBER, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 138 GOODREADS RATING: 4.19/5 (32 Ratings)     MY RATING: 3.5/5 BLURB: Vishy's worst nightmare-failing the UPSC's Civil Services exam-has come true. He is plagued by insecurity, fear and doubts. The mother of all competitive examinations has rejected him and he needs a reason to live. So, what does he do? He tells his best friend Rithika, 'I love you. Will you marry me?'  In Once Upon an IAS Exam, twenty-five-year-old Vishy tries to overcome the uncertainty and confusion about his future and figure out ways of convincing Rithika to marry him. Things turn even more interesting, funny and emotional as Vishy reattempts to conquer 'Mount IAS'. As he tries to take his academic and love life towards safety, he seeks refuge in the world of IAS co...

THE DEVIL'S PRAYER AUTHOR: LUKE GRACIAS PUBLISHER: THE WRITE PLACE GENRE: HORROR/HISTORICAL FICTION   PUBLICATION DATE: 1st JANUARY, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 369   GOODREADS RATING: 3.99/5 (497 Ratings) MY RATING: 4/5 BLURB:   A nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognizes that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. In the search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent where her mother once lived. Here she discovers Denise’s final confession, a book that details a heinous betrayal that left her crippled and mute, and Denise’s subsequent deal with the Devil to take revenge. In the desperate bargain Denise made with the Prince of Darkness, she wagered Siobhan’s soul. As Siobhan discovers the fate of her soul, she learns that hidden within the pages of her mother’s confession is part of The Devil’s Prayer, an ancient text with the power to unleash...

TARIKSHIR: THE AWAKENING AUTHOR: KHAYAAL PATEL PUBLISHER: WESTLAND PUBLICATIONS GENRE: MYTHOLOGY/HISTORICAL FICTION/FANTASY PUBLICATION DATE: 20th AUGUST, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 332 GOODREADS RATING: 4.28/5 (69 Ratings) MY RATING: 5/5 BLURB: A small princely state in Rajasthan is the last bastion of resistance against the might of the British Empire. While unrest surrounding the sudden death of the king of Devangarh grows, young prince Rudra Pratap Chauhan prepares to ascend the throne. But the kingdom is in turmoil. The Devanagari army is outnumbered and the British forces are closing in. To make matters worse, Rudra discovers the king’s death may not have been accidental after all. The strange appearance and disappearance of a mysterious hooded stranger and a series of ritualistic murders in which the bodies have been drained of blood, spread panic across the realm. As Rudra struggles to manage his new responsibilities and investigat...

HOPE AND SUNSHINE AUTHOR: DEBASMITA NATH GHOSH PUBLISHER: POWER PUBLICATION GENRE: ROMANTIC FICTION PUBLICATION DATE:     1st JANUARY, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 170 GOODREADS RATING: 3.35/5 (54 Ratings) MY RATING: 3/5 BLURB:     Naina Grover has an imperfectly perfect life, or is it perfectly imperfect? A Punjabi kudi from Delhi working in the city of joy, Kolkata is joined by her crazy cousin, Arjun and his sober friend Aditya to come of age while at a long - distance relationship which seems to be going nowhere. She knows it is a recipe for disaster but should she let go or not? Should she hope for the best? Hope she will be accepted?Hope she can settle down? Hope she can come to terms with a family secret bothering her for years now? Just hope. Keep hoping? And then, Hope welcomes a ray of sunshine. Naina welcomes you to look at life from her perspective. 'Hop'e On!'     MY REVIEW: 'Hope and Sunshine'...

HUNGRY GODS AUTHOR: RICHA LAKHERA PUBLISHER: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA GENRE: CRIME FICTION PUBLICATION DATE: 20th JULY, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 196 GOODREADS RATING: 4.02/5 (56 Ratings) MY RATING: 3.5 /5 BLURB: Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of dark characters come to light. There is Valentine, the superstar brand ambassador who sells anything for a price; there is Medici, a pharmaceutical company fraudulently manufacturing banned drugs; there is the perverted and sinister minded Dr Ranga and there is Este, the prostitute whose dark secret will blow up a daughter’s sanity.     As the story moves forward, a breathless suspense builds up: is there another murder waiting to happen? Will Police Inspector Dorab Si...

HELLO GUYS!! I am doing my first cover reveal and that too for the HarperCollins India.  I am glad to reveal the cover of Shweta Bachchan Nanda's debut novel "Paradise Towers" . ABOUT THE BOOK: Dinesh opens the door to the Kapoor flat to find Lata, the enchantress who works at Mrs Aly Khan’s, carrying a hot case with freshly made gaajar ka halwa. On the first floor, the inquisitive Mrs Mody wipes the dust off her precious binoculars to spy on the building’s security guard. The Singhs open the doors of their SUV, their four boys creating a ruckus – they are the newcomers, the outsiders. Through the peephole, the ever-watchful Mrs Ranganekar observes their arrival. Welcome to Paradise Towers, an apartment building in central Mumbai. Everyone here has a story to tell. Or maybe they have stories to hide. Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s quirky, intimate debut explores the intertwined lives in this building – a forbidden romance, an elopement, the undercurre...

THE FRIEND AUTHOR: TERESA DRISCOLL PUBLISHER: THOMAS & MERCER GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 13th AUGUST, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 292      GOODREADS RATING: 4.19 /5 (4,295 Ratings) MY RATING:   4/5 BLURB (Taken from Amazon)   On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben. She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma’s a kindred spirit—someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumors. But Sophie can’t shake the feeling that she’s made an unforgivable mistake and now her whole family is in danger. Because how well does she know Emma, really? Should she have trusted her at all? Time is running out. Powerless to help her child, still hours from home, Sophie is about to discover...

ELIZA AND HER MONSTERS AUTHOR: FRANCESCA ZAPPIA PUBLISHER: GREENWILLOW BOOKS GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION, CONTEMPORARY FICTION, ROMANCE PUBLICATION DATE: 30th MAY, 2017 FORMAT: E-book         PAGES COUNT: 405 GOODREADS RATING: 4.28/5 (23,031 Ratings) MY RATING: 5/5 "If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me because I read them over and over again." BLURB:       In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea . Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea ’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eli...