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 s...

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, al...

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 p...

BETRAYALS AND PAYBACKS                          AUTHOR: SANA SHETTY PUBLISHER: WRITE INDIA PUBLISHERS GENRE: THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 16 OCTOBER, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 192 GOODREADS RATING:   3.74/5 MY RATING: 4/5 PLOTLINE: The story is set in Tamara, a small mundane village on the banks of river Kaveri. It starts with Vedant Birajdar, receiving numerous voice messages in his answering machine from his childhood best friend Jay, pleading him to return to Tamara. Vedant has left the village 8 years ago, after a wild night out with Jay turned disastrous, and never came back. According to Jay, he and Vedant's brother Tarun is in danger and he might never see him again.  Surprised Vedant returns to Tamara only to learn that Jay had committed suicide, and Tarun was missing. Misha, Jay's brother and also his first...

ADVENTURES IN FARLAND AUTHOR: MOSHANK RELIA     PUBLISHER: RUMOUR BOOKS INDIA  PUBLICATION DATE: 15 OCTOBER, 2017 GENRE: CHILDREN'S BOOK FORMAT: eBook PAGES COUNT: 104 GOODREADS RATING: 3.8/5 MY RATING:  4/5 PLOTLINE: Mira Rawat is a seven-year old beautiful and adventurous girl. One day while Mira along with her two best friends, Bira and Vira were on their way to Gunhill for a picnic, they came across a man who introduced himself as Bushy. Bushy informed Mira that, he has come from Farland on the order of Princess Harmonica to invite her for the New Moon Party. Bushy also casted a spell on Bira and Vira, turning them into rats, as Farland is a quiet place and because they keep on fighting most of the time without any reason, it can be very disturbing for all of them there. Farland is a beautiful magical land, a home to many gnomes, fairies, eagles and etc about which Mira has heard many stories from her mother. Carrying Bira and Vira i...

SECOND CHANCE                                        AUTHOR: DR SANDEEP JATWA PUBLISHER: EDUCREATION PUBLISHING PUBLICATION DATE: 5TH MAY, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 190 GOODREADS RATING: 3.9/5 MY RATING: 3/5 " No money can give you contentment and happiness. Do what your heart wants and what you will get would be priceless. . ." PLOTLINE : The plot of the novel revolves around the life of Shekhar Kapoor, who is the chairman of a shoe company named Aerowalk. In spite of being a successful businessman, Shekhar is arrogant, selfish and a heartless person. According to Shekhar, every other being is inferior to him and he is the best. He behaves badly with everyone, be it with the employees in his office, or disregarding the poor people. And furthermore, he doesn't even care for his sick dad who is in his deathbed. One day while Shekhar was on the way...

YOU NEVER KNOW AUTHOR: AKASH VERMA PUBLISHER: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GENRE: ROMANTIC THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 18 SEPTEMBER, 2017 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 240 GOODREADS RATING: 4/5 MY RATING: 4/5 "There will be times when you feel you have the best relationship, ever There will be times when it will be the worst that has happened to you There will be times when you know you are getting into something terrible; something that will not stop till it destroys you And yet. . . You will be pulled into it so inextricably, unstoppably . . ."  PLOTLINE: The story is based in the city of Gurgaon, revolving around the life of Dhruv Saxena, who is happily married to his wife Shalini, a psychiatrist and has two kids, Kabir and Siya. Dhruv is the youngest senior vice president of  an advertising agency C&M, and the story begins with him getting promoted as the C&M's new branch head of Delhi.  With the creative head's position being ...