Life of a bookworm

THE WILD CAT AUTHOR: TAANYA SARMA PUBLISHER: INVINCIBLE PUBLISHERS GENRE: EROTIC THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 21st DECEMBER, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 282 GOODREADS RATING: 4.25/5 MY RATING: 3.5/5 BLURB:    (Taken from Amazon) Based on true events, this erotic thriller novel tells the tale of a young, naive woman named Tanya enters the online dating and chat world. Her first foray into this digital realm initially proves to be bland and disappointing; however, sex, suspense, power struggles, and attempted murder soon unfold. These unwelcome adventures interfere with her business and her sanity as she aspires to live up to her deceased parent’s standards. A conman named Sam ensnares Aaron, a handsome investment banker, into his ploy and uses him as a pawn to lure women into doing things they normally wouldn’t do. Sam then exposes their personal information as well as their images, sometimes in the act of cybersex, and posts them on ...

MANGO PEOPLE IN BANANA REPUBLIC AUTHOR: VISHAK SHAKTI PUBLISHER: THE WRITE PLACE GENRE: POLITICS, SPIRITUALITY, SATIRE PUBLICATION DATE: 1st JANUARY, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 236 GOODREADS RATING: 4.07/5 MY RATING: 3.5/5 BLURB: Ravi Bhalerao is a top of the rung business strategy consultant struggling with two disquiets in life- a festering career disillusionment and a festering wound in his posterior. Stung by an unfair performance appraisal, he pulls off an outrageous stunt at his workplace, drops off the urban map and reacheshis ancestral land, a village in drought-prone Vidarbha. There he encounters India in its elemental form. Convinced that his destiny is somehow entwined with that of his country, he sets off on a truth-seeking mission. On that mission, he finds love, revolution and most importantly, a redemption for the disquiet in his rear. Anand is a former physicist on a spiritual quest through esoteric India. He realizes that the...

THE BRAHMIN                                                AUTHOR: RAVI SHANKAR ETTETH PUBLISHER: WESTLAND BOOKS GENRE: HISTORICAL FICTION, THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 23rd MARCH, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 246 GOODREADS RATING: 3.63/5 MY RATING: 3.5/5 BLURB: It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming danger: t...

IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE AUTHOR: PRASHANT KAUL PUBLISHER: NOTION PRESS GENRE: ROMANTIC FICTION PUBLICATION DATE: 24th JULY, 2017 FORMAT: PDF PAGES COUNT: 264 GOODREADS RATING: 3.74/5 MY RATING: 1/5 PLOTLINE: Dev Sharma is a young student who has a unique ability- he has nightmares that unfortunately comes true.  Dev is the only son of his parents, and is extremely adored by them. He has two best friends, Vikram and Amrish. While in college, Dev met Carol and fell in love with her almost instantly. But, when Carol didn’t reciprocate his love, they parted ways. Dev met Vaani, through Facebook, and a friendship developed between them, which soon blossomed into love. But just as they were relishing their newly formed relationship, Vaani left him without even saying a goodbye.  Will Dev be able to find out the reason behind Vaani’s departure? Or will Carol come back to his life again?  MY REVIEW: 'It’s got to be love' is a story...