Life of a bookworm

8 HOURS                                       AUTHOR: UPENDRA NAMBURI PUBLISHER: WESTLAND PUBLISHERS GENRE: THRILLER, SUSPENSE PUBLICATION DATE: 21st OCTOBER, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 283 GOODREADS RATING: 3.82/5 MY RATING: 2.5/5 I don't want to reveal much about the plot line, and so I am stating the blurb of the book below as given in Goodreads. BLURB: Aratrika Reddy, the charismatic CEO of ARYA Holdings Ltd, has just 8 hours to save her company from certain bankruptcy. The multi-billion dollar hotels to steel conglomerate, founded by her mercurial father, liquor baron Madhusudhan Reddy, has many suitors, all of them plotting a hostile takeover. Aratrika's estranged husband, Siddhartha is one of them. His inside knowledge is the real ace up his sleeve. The Rathores, the Reddy's arch-rivals are looking to buy ARYA too and thereby settle old scores. Aratrika has to weave her way through a litany of lawyers, politic

WHEN OPPOSITES MEET                                          AUTHOR: SACHIN GARG PUBLISHER: HARLEQUIN GENRE: ROMANTIC COMEDY PUBLICATION DATE: 25 OCTOBER, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 216 GOODREADS RATING: 3.94/5 MY RATING: 4/5 PLOTLINE: Ritwika Dua suffers from severe muscle atrophy, a condition which has made her arms and leg abnormally skinny and has left her with not enough strength to do much. Chetan Jadhav is a national-level athlete who has been suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency under the allegation of taking banned substances to enhance his performance.    Indu Dua is Ritwika’s mother, a divorcee, who is an highly ambitious women and works as an counselor at a NGO. Lokesh Nair is a Professor in Ritwika’s college, also known to be as a reclusive researcher, who rarely comes out of his laboratory to give lectures. Jayant  Arora is the third member of the Dua household, who is RItwika’s cousin. He is a quiet boy

FEAR IS THE KEY AUTHOR: JUGGI BHASIN     PUBLISHER: PENGUIN INDIA     GENRE: THRILLER, PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER, MYSTERY     PUBLICATION DATE: 13 DECEMBER, 2017 FORMAT:  PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 288 GOODREADS RATING: 3.70/5 MY RATING: 3/5   ' A bitter winter wind blowing outside talked to me. There was no one else around. And then it struck me. She might have truly disappeared! Sometimes, you get a sense of these things. . .' PLOTLINE : Rahul Abhyankar is an IIT Graduate, who starts up a new company, a digital infotainment site named as Yummimages along with his childhood best friend Suhel Bagga. Rahul is in love with Simone, who is the creative head of his company. However, all is not well between Simone and Suhel, which is creating problems in the company. In order to ease things up and to set things right between them, Rahul throws a party in his apartment.  Everything was going well, until, halfway to the party, Simone mysteriously disappears