31 July 2015

Review #289: Forsaken (Shadow Cove Saga, #1) by J.D. Barker



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”

----Terry Pratchett



J.D. Barker, an American author, pens a heart-stopping and extremely hair-rising story, Forsaken that is the first book in the Shadow Cove Saga series, that accounts the story of a writer who writes horror thrillers and want to be one of the best writers this world has ever known, but little did he knew that the story that he is penning with his words could actually happen parallely in his own family home.


BEWARE: Because this book is definitely going to be a bumpy ride through witchy drama, spells, curses, creatures of the nigh, blood, goth and shall I continue?? Everything that is sure to give you the chills and the thrills.

Review #288: The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy



My rating:
4 of 5 stars


“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” 


----Friedrich Nietzsche



Douglas Kennedy, an American best-selling author, pens a thrilling and completely exotic marital as well as adventurous story about a couple who are stuck in a bad marriage mixed with poor financial situations, The Heat of Betrayal .





Feature & Follow #19: The ARC that I'm Waiting For Eagerly



Good morning Y'all,
Well it's once again a wet and rainy Friday, but I'm not feeling that bad about it, since I'm going a join a new company in my city, and I'm feeling elated about it. Wish me luck! But it's also sad to say goodbye to my now colleagues.



It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.



What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!


30 July 2015

Review #287: Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It's crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe.”

----Jourdane Erasquin



Heather Brittain Bergstrom, an American author, pens her poignant as well as compelling debut novel, Steal the North that accounts the story of a young teenage girl who, after learning about her mother's painful past and about those lies that her mother had been hiding from her, embarks upon a journey through the dusty and bumpy road to the Moses Lake in Washington from Sacramento in California. This emotional tale is entwined with love, family, sisterhood, teenage pregnancy, Christianity, race and culture set across a vivid backdrop.


28 July 2015

Review #286: What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

----Anonymous


Aaron Hartzler, an American author, pens his debut novel involving teens, assault, lies and mystery, What We Saw that accounts the story of a high school teenager who investigates the sexual assault on her friend in a small town. Withstanding the prejudices and unimaginable controversies, this young girl fights against the society, which gets enveloped by the darkness of a rape, to find out the truth.


This book is actually based on a true story, which goes as follows: (Source: Wiki)

27 July 2015

Review #285: Crooked Heart: A Novel by Lissa Evans



My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."”


----C.S. Lewis




Lissa Evans, an English writer, pens a heart-touching historical fiction, Crooked Heart: A Novel about unusual friendships set against the vivid and honest backdrop in London during the world war II, when Germany was constantly dropping off bombs over the city of London.


25 July 2015

Review #284: Baby Please Don't Go by Frank Freudberg



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”

----Stieg Larsson



Frank Freudberg, an American novelist, journalist and ghostwriter, pens his latest psychological thriller, Baby Please Don't Go , that accounts a heart-stopping and thoroughly intensifying tale about a recovering alcoholic who only desired for one thing in his life- a family, which he gets through his job, only to find out that he has to pay a hefty price to be happy again with a family.



24 July 2015

Author Q&A Session with Giveaway #52: With Elaine Dimopoulos



Hello,
Good day and I hope y'all are having a awesome Friday. Today I bring you another author interview with a debut YA writer who created a fantastic dystopian tale about fashion, yes, that's right, Elaine Dimopoulos is here to talk about her debut book, Material Girls, also about fashion, and life beyond books and all.

A terrific writer as well as a teacher, Elaine has penned a beautiful and compelling YA story. Keep reading, since there's a surprise at the bottom of the interview post.. stay tuned guys!

Read the review of Material Girls


Review #283: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“When you convert a good book to a film.. stupid things happen”


----Jesse Andrews



Jesse Andrews, an American novelist and screenwriter, has penned a brilliant and thoroughly funny YA contemporary novel about friends and films, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, where two odd teenagers come across in each other's lives with a common ground- social awkwardness. This book simply turns their friendship into something beautiful, funny and thoroughly inspiring.



Feature & Follow #18: My Favorite Movies



Hi Good day guys,
Hope Y'all are doing great. Time for Friday fun!!!



It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.



What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!




23 July 2015

Review #282: The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.” 


----James Clavell, a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW



Michael Arditti, an English writer, has penned a thoroughly riveting thriller The Breath of Nightthat takes the readers not only back in time but also to a beautiful and exotic destination of the world, Philippines, where a young priest travels to Manila to find out exactly what happened to his would-have-been-uncle-in-law, who went to Manila to become a priest and years later getting killed on the hands of a communist party.


Review #281: Clara's Song (Haunted Minds, #2) by John Hennessy



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 


----Friedrich Nietzsche


John Hennessy (my friend), an English writer, pens a bone-chilling as well as inspiring and quite thrilling tale about marriage, Clara's Song that is the second book in the Haunted Minds series. Now as the title of the series says, Haunted Minds, the book in the series actually keeps haunting our minds not only while reading but also long after we have finished reading the book.



22 July 2015

Author Q&A Session #51: With Philip Kazan



Good evening everyone,

Hope you're having a great day. In another new author Q&A Session, today we have the author who re-creates Florence vividly and strikingly with his stories that not only traces the outline of a beautiful and elegant city but also takes us back in time in a different era. Yes Philip Kazan is here to talk about art, his objectives, his books and his life beyond books and all. So stay tuned and keep reading the interview.

Read the review of The Painter of Souls




Review #280: Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.” 


----Amit Kalantri, an Indian author


Jessica Treadway, an American author, pens a compelling as well as heart-wrenching tale of a mother and a daughter in her new psychological thriller, Lacy Eye that accounts the story of a family where the husband and the wife were brutally beaten on their bed, due to which the husband died whereas the wife suffered memory loss and physical injuries unfortunately three years later, the man who did this to them is seeking an appeal to the court and that wife must put all her energy to try to remember that horrific life. And surprisingly this man was the wife's daughter's boyfriend.

21 July 2015

Review #279: Housebroken by The Behrg




My rating:
5 of 5 stars


“Better be the devil you know than the devil you don't.” 


----Jack Heath, an Award-winning Australian author


The Behrg, an American author, pens his debut thriller, Housebroken that accounts the story of a family who are taken hostage by two psycho kidnappers who only wanted one thing from that family- observe the normal daily routine of that family for a week. Sounds weird as well as thoroughly creepy!

Warning: This book is not for those who have a faint/weak heart that can't handle too much creepy and dark violence and horror! Look Away...



Review #278: Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead by Lena Diaz



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Don't play his game. Play yours.” 


----Rachel Caine, an American author


Lena Diaz, an American romantic suspense author, has penned a terrific and gripping story, Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead, which is the third book in the Deadly Games series, that narrates the story of a cop named, Tessa who opens up an investigation based on some unknown and unnamed letters that her office received, which makes her hire her previous and younger-in-age partner to solve the probable case against a serial killer. Little did she knew that those letters might take her to an unknown alley of darkness and death and her forgotten past.


20 July 2015

Author Q&A Session #50: With Eliza Redgold


Hello and welcome to an all new author Q&A session and today we have the contemporary romance writer, Eliza Redgold, whose new historical fiction, Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva just released. So let's welcome her with a warm hug and let's chat with this amazing writer.

Read the review of Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva


Review #277: Queen of Tomorrow (Stolen Empire, #2) by Sherry D. Ficklin



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.” 


----Libba Bray, an American author



Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, pens her next book in the Stolen Empire series that accounts the journey of Sophie- a young Duchess of Imperial Russian Kingdom, called Queen of Tomorrow, where Sophie portrays the young Catherine the Great. Being a Duchess is not an easy thing when the smell of death and threat of murder lurks at every corner of Sophie's life.



Review #276: Queen of Someday (Stolen Empire, #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Sometimes, we must learn to open our hearts and grow to love someone we think we might not be able to.”

----Sherry D. Ficklin


Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, has penned a terrific tale about queens, palaces, love and war based in Russia, Queen of Someday that happens to be the first book in the Stolen Empire series that accounts a tale of destiny, power and love in a dangerous kingdom in Russia which is loosely based on the life of young Catherine the Great.



Blog Tour with Giveaway: The Beginning of Never (The Never Trilogy #1)by O.E. Boroni



Good morning folks,





It is a great morning in Kolkata. Just kiddin! Pretty bad and sucky one with a bad traffic jam that took me nearly two hours to reach my office,  which usually takes only 25 minutes to reach office. Yeah it's pouring heavily from last night and Kolkata's one disadvantage is that when it rains, the traffic seems move at a snail's pace. Anyhow here's a pic from today's morning scene.


19 July 2015

Review #275: The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

----Pablo Picasso



Pip Vaughan-Hughes, an English writer, writing under the name of Philip Kazan, pens a mystifying historical fiction, The Painter of Souls that is based on the life and times of the famous painter, Fra Filippo Lippi, during the 15th century Renaissance Florence. Although there is not much known to this great historic painter's life, so the author immerses into Filippo's paintings to give a fictional sketch of his early as well as later life in Florence.


17 July 2015

Review #274: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” 


----John Holmes



Mary Kubica, the national best-selling American author, pens her new psychological thriller, Pretty Baby, that unfolds a gripping and mystifying story about a woman who helps a homeless teenager and baby by providing them shelter and food in her own home, thus resulting in a unbreakable marital distance between herself and her husband, but when this teenager's story started surfacing up, things take a wrong turn thus making the woman question her decision about providing shelter to that teenager on the first place. After all it has been rightly said, "Do not judge a book by it's covers!"


Feature & Follow #17: My Ideal Library



Good Day peeps,
Hope you're all having a great day. The rain in my city is now under control and the water-logged streets have all soaked up and the water has been pumped out from those streets. Anyhow, we are managing and surviving the monsoons.


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.



What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!


15 July 2015

Review #273: Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

----Albert Einstein

Lynn Weingarten, an American YA author, pens a gripping as well as an emotional tale, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls, about two friends layered with enough mystery to keep the readers engaged till the very end, in a way, the author shades light into teenage friendships, trust issues among them, teenage trauma and suicide and mysterious death into her plot.






14 July 2015

Review #272: Paperweight by Meg Haston



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The anorectic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.” 


----Marya Hornbacher, an American author



Meg Haston, an American YA author, pens a very personal story inspired from her own life, Paperweight that narrates the story of a young teenager, suffering from an eating disorder, recovering from the problem to have a normal life in a treatment center which is closer to hell. This is her story and the story that tells us how she is fighting everyday against her own illness as well as her past ghosts all alone.



13 July 2015

Review #271: Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.” 


----Laura Lippman



Laura Lippman, an American award-winning NY Times best-selling author, has penned an incredibly nail-biting as well as edgy thriller, Every Secret Thing , that was published in the year 2004 and that has won quite a lot of literary awards. The story revolves around two little girls who unfortunately became a part of a horrific and sad murder of a little baby who was left abandoned by a sitter, seven years later, the disappearance of yet another child speculates and brings back the same memory of that child and will life ever be same for those two little girls who have just served seven years in juvenile prison.


Blog Tour with Giveaway: Drawn by Chris Ledbetter



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” 


----Oscar Wilde



Chris Ledbetter, an American YA author, pens an intriguing contemporary YA story, Drawn, that centers around a young artist and his magical sketchbook which finally pulls him into a thrilling adventure to find the girl of his dreams.




11 July 2015

Review #270: Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva by Eliza Redgold



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


He answer'd, "Ride you naked thro' the town,
And I repeal it;"

----Lord Alfred Tennyson


Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd, a.k.a, Eliza Redgold, a lecturer-cum-contemporary-romance-writer, pens the story of Lady Godiva in her new historical fiction, Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva, where the author vividly as well as compassionately captures the real story behind Godiva's naked ride through the streets of Coventry, that is based upon Tennyson's famous poem, Godiva.




10 July 2015

Review #269: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.” 


----Gustave Flaubert


Gustave Flaubert, one of the greatest Western novelists who ever lived in France, had penned a beautiful and thoroughly realistic story about common life in a provincial town of France, Madame Bovary and when the book published in the year of 1857, it caused an outrage among the common people of then times, later the book was widely accepted and people had agreed that Flaubert have vividly portrayed the triviality of a common housewife with nothing good to do to pass her days, apart from her religion and her motherhood.

I was tempted to buy this book from Amazon after watching the movie version with the same title featuring Mia Wasikowska and Ezra Miller, that released last month and is directed by Sophie Barthes. Although the movie didn't intrigue me that much, but Emma's life, portrayed through Mia Wasikowska, left me enthralled with the gravity of her pain and her exceptions about married life falling short.

Review #268: Radiant Angel (John Corey, #7) by Nelson DeMille



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.” 


----Omar Nelson Bradley, a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army



Nelson DeMille, the #1New York Times best-selling author, pens the seventh book, Radiant Angel in the John Corey series, that features the famous detective, John Corey, who is a former NYPD detective and a former member of the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the last job forced him to leave it and join hands with Diplomatic Surveillance Group, and this book accounts yet another adventure from John Corey's life.


Feature & Follow #16: My Favorite Cuisine


Good morning guys,
What a morning! Rain and water clogged streets welcomed my first step out of my house. Sorry can't give you a glimpse of it, because it was pouring heavily and I was scared that my precious Lumia phone would destroy if I take out from my pocket due to the rains. Anyways, I can give a snap shot of my office which has submerged under the water and I had to climb some walls to enter my office. Yeah, I'm very sporty when it comes down to these things, I can climbs trees, walls, houses, and anything!




Yeah so you can imagine the gravity of the situation in my city- Kolkata, which is famous for it's rains, since the whole city goes under the waters, and it feels like a fanatsy novel- a city under water, we are all like mermaids, there are some evil creatures lurking in the water, and there are some angle and hero like craetures protecting us from the evil, now I'm making up a story.

9 July 2015

Review #267: Balance Broken (Starbright, #2) by Hilary Thompson



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” 


----Charlotte Brontë


Hilary Thompson, an American YA author, pens the second book, Balance Broken in the Starbright series, where the story continues with Astrea, Lexan, Stian and Zarea trying to break free from the bond of prophecy that dictates their fate to save their city, on the other hand, the people of their city from where they just escaped are dependent on Astrea and her leadership to save them from their ill-fate.



8 July 2015

Book Blitz with Giveaway: They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan



Good day,



Hope you're all having a nice day. Today we are hosting a book blitz of the book, They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan, followed by an amazing content and it's rules to participate in that contest, and a giveaway. So stay tuned and keep reading!


Blog Tour with Giveaway: Two Hearts: When I Said I Do, I Meant Forever by James Eric Richey



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.” 


----Anthony Liccione, an American author/poet



James Eric Richey, an American author, has penned his debut contemporary fiction, Two Hearts: When I Said I Do, I Meant Forever, that etches a beautiful and heart-touching love story of a young married couple through the odds and evens of their lives' shared journey.




Review #266: Justice Buried (Starbright, #1) by Hilary Thompson



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” 


----William Shakespeare


Hilary Thompson, an American author, has penned an extremely compelling YA dystopian book, Justice Buried which is the first book in the Starbright series and one look at the Goodreads page of this book makes me wonder, why isn't more number of YA readers are reading this thoroughly gripping YA science fiction dystopian that is mixed with astrology and lots of mythology, featuring our world, not so far away from the current day, where everything is ruled by prophecy or zodiac and people believed their fates in the stars.

Review #265: The Dark by V.M. Giambanco



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed” 


----Thomas Moore



V.M. Giambanco, an Italian-English author, has penned a thrilling crime fiction, The Dark which is the second book book in the Alison Madison series. Alison Madison is the detective in the Homicide department of Seattle PD, who is working on a twenty-five year old abduction of little boys case, but on her investigation, she is shadowed upon by a stalker who has other intentions to stop her from investigating to the core of the horrific crime, while her own demons from her dreams are threatening to take away her career from her.

6 July 2015

Review #264: After the Crash by Michel Bussi



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”


----Oscar Wilde


Michel Bussi, a French award-winning author, pens his latest crime thriller, Un avion sans elle, that has been translated into English by Sam Taylor and the English title is called, After the Crash. The mystery revolves around the identity of the youngest survivor of a plane crash accident among 169 passengers aboard that happened eighteen years ago, and now in the present, the detective, who was assigned to find out the identity of the girl, is now laying down his pen and have finished jotting down each and every clues of this unraveling mystery from every possible angles, is ready to take his last breath by killing himself, when he stumbles upon the last piece of that mystery which stops him from killing himself.


Review #263: North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” 


----Ellen DeGeneres


Elisabeth Elo, an American author, has penned her debut thriller, North of Boston, that unfolds a riveting mystery behind the accident of a man fishing with her friend on boat who were hit by a large freight ship that came out of nowhere and left no trail behind it's disappearance thereby killing the man and leaving his friend floating in the sub-zero temperature of the Atlantic waters.


3 July 2015

Review #262: Exile (Guy Erma and the Son of Empire, #3) by Sally Ann Melia



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”


----Elbert Hubbard



Sally Ann Melia, an English author, pens the third part of the Guy Erma and the Son of Empire trilogy, Exile which traces the story of two young boys one rich and other poor racing against their kingdom's villainous characters and their evil ways to protect their land, but can they trust each other?




Review #261: The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"The brevity or prolonging the life of a human being depends primarily on the flow of pain that person is forced to endure." 


----Eduardo Sacheri


Eduardo Sacheri, an Argentinean author, has penned a gripping novel, The Secret in Their Eyes which has later been translated into English after this book's movie adaption won an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. So they call it "the novel that became an Oscar-winning film", which traces the story of a retired investigator trying to write a novel based on a decade old rape-cum-murder of a young married woman and in the process of going through the past, old memories as well as romances cloud up his soul thus re-opening the window to his much cherished past but it comes with a price and with some mind-blowing revelations both personal as well as political.


Feature & Follow #15: My First Ever Book



Good morning folks,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!



2 July 2015

Author Q&A Session #49: With Simon Packham



Hello Folks,

Welcome to a new Author Interview session and today we have the author who recreates the realistic worlds of teenagers so vividly with his mind-blowing and intriguing stories. Meet the YA author, Simon Packham, who just released his lasted YA book, Only We Know. So Simon is here to talk about his latest books, his inspirations, his journey as well as about his life beyond books and all.

Read the review of Only We Know here

5 Effective Ways to Promote Your Blog Using Instagram


Good Day!!
So you've a blog that needs a certain amount of followers in a short span of time! I mean who doesn't have that in mind- 200 followers within a span of like 1.5 month. Yeah, you heard me right! It's possible now, no not by doing weekly memes (which is an incredibly slow process!!) or promoting your blog in the social media world, like Bloglovin' or Facebook or Twitter (bloggers' favorite platform!), but by promoting your blog on Instagram- a new social media which has over 300 million monthly users (way more than Twitter!). Why?





Review #260: Alive (The Generations Trilogy, #1) by Scott Sigler



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” 


----Leon C. Megginson, an American author



Scott Sigler, the New York Times best-selling author, pens his new book, Alive which happens to be the first book in The Generationstrilogy, that traces the story of a young girl trapped inside a casket with no trace of her past or future, embarks upon a thrilling journey to find a way out from a mysterious corridor along with the few survivors. How did she got there in the first place? And how to find to way to save herself as well as the survivors who are looking upon her for her guidance?

These questions lead to this book and guys, I suggest you pick up a copy of this book right away to uncover the mind-boggling mystery behind the storyline, which the author himself asks his readers to keep it under wraps while writing a review!!