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, politicians, bankers, bureaucrats, investors, power brokers and her dreaded family. Behind the scenes, Jagannath Rao, her wily uncle, is playing a dangerous double game of manipulation. Her father Madhusudan, is furiously pulling the strings from behind the scenes. To add to the confusion, overseeing the whole sale process is her old flame, Peter.
Over the course of a single night, 8 hours to be precise, Aratrika must fight the demons at the gates of her company and those within. It's a fight to the bitter end.
A fight that Aratrika does not want to lose...
MY REVIEW:
8 hours is a corporate thriller by Upendra Namburi, where he has penned down the harsh reality of a corporate world. The story revolves around Aratrika Reddy, who has 8 hours to save her company ARYA from getting bankrupt.
The cover of the novel really impressed me and after reading the blurb of the novel, I had great expectations from it. But unfortunately, I was disappointed. Once I started reading the novel, I found it difficult to grasp as to what is actually happening. It took me some time to understand the story and was a very monotonic read.
Apart from Aratrika, there were many other characters whose main aim was to take down ARYA. Indefinite numbers of phone calls and conversations between these multiple characters was very confusing. Also, there were many business related terms used in the story, the concepts with which I am not very familiar.
The language used was simple and plain, but the narrating style was slow-paced. The plot of the story was interesting, but because of the repetition of things, it got worse. I was literally struggling to finish the book as fast as possible.
Only thing I liked about the book is, the character of Aratrika. The image of Aratrika as a strong, wise, fearful leader, who refuses to give in to any circumstances, has been portrayed very well by the author. If one is interested in corporate thrillers, they would like this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A digital & marketing professional by day, an engineer & MBA by accident. Upendra is married and has a son. Upendra was first bitten by the writing bug when he was invited to write for one of India's leading finance dailies. It soon turned into a love affair that turned him into an avid blogger and finally made him take the plunge into the uncharted waters of the Novel. Upendra now takes complex subjects like banking, consumer goods, mergers and acquisitions and turns them into nail-biting thrillers, making those dull and dreary numbers come alive. But he really hasn't shifted his focus as such, for he still thinks of his books as numbers: 31, 60, and 8. 8 hours is the third in the Numbers series.
* I received a copy of the book from Writersmelon in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.* The author information has been taken from Amazon.in.
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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:
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, politicians, bankers, bureaucrats, investors, power brokers and her dreaded family. Behind the scenes, Jagannath Rao, her wily uncle, is playing a dangerous double game of manipulation. Her father Madhusudan, is furiously pulling the strings from behind the scenes. To add to the confusion, overseeing the whole sale process is her old flame, Peter.
Over the course of a single night, 8 hours to be precise, Aratrika must fight the demons at the gates of her company and those within. It's a fight to the bitter end.
A fight that Aratrika does not want to lose...
MY REVIEW:
The cover of the novel really impressed me and after reading the blurb of the novel, I had great expectations from it. But unfortunately, I was disappointed. Once I started reading the novel, I found it difficult to grasp as to what is actually happening. It took me some time to understand the story and was a very monotonic read.
Apart from Aratrika, there were many other characters whose main aim was to take down ARYA. Indefinite numbers of phone calls and conversations between these multiple characters was very confusing. Also, there were many business related terms used in the story, the concepts with which I am not very familiar.
The language used was simple and plain, but the narrating style was slow-paced. The plot of the story was interesting, but because of the repetition of things, it got worse. I was literally struggling to finish the book as fast as possible.
Only thing I liked about the book is, the character of Aratrika. The image of Aratrika as a strong, wise, fearful leader, who refuses to give in to any circumstances, has been portrayed very well by the author. If one is interested in corporate thrillers, they would like this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A digital & marketing professional by day, an engineer & MBA by accident. Upendra is married and has a son. Upendra was first bitten by the writing bug when he was invited to write for one of India's leading finance dailies. It soon turned into a love affair that turned him into an avid blogger and finally made him take the plunge into the uncharted waters of the Novel. Upendra now takes complex subjects like banking, consumer goods, mergers and acquisitions and turns them into nail-biting thrillers, making those dull and dreary numbers come alive. But he really hasn't shifted his focus as such, for he still thinks of his books as numbers: 31, 60, and 8. 8 hours is the third in the Numbers series.
* I received a copy of the book from Writersmelon in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.* The author information has been taken from Amazon.in.
For more bookish updates, follow me on Instagram
To request for book reviews, write to me at abhibasu.1997@gmail.com.
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ReplyDeleteTotally agree with you! It was a pain for me to get through the book.
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