28 December 2016

Review #576: Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

My rating: 2 of 5 stars “By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ----Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jennifer Niven, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned yet another inspiring and strikingly honest YA contemporary...

25 December 2016

Top 10 Best Books of 2016

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas to my dear readers. Hope yáll are having a happy and lovely Christmas day filled with lots of laughter, love and reading. Its the most perfect day followed by perfect weather to celebrate the day of happiness, kindness, gifts sharing and joy among one another, be it...

22 December 2016

Review #575: Lost in Terror by Nayeema Mahjoor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” ----Anne Bradstreet Nayeema Mahjoor, an Indian writer, pens a terrific and gripping tale of one woman and an Indian state fighting against injustice of the government and...

20 December 2016

Author Q&A Session #87: With Sukanya Venkatraghavan along with a Giveaway

Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening to my world wide readers, Hope y'all are having a fantastic day or just going to start a lovely morning. The holiday season has kicked in and my mind and soul is yearning for merriment, a short escape to someplace sunny and sandy and for lots of love and kindness. Although the winter's bitter chill and severing cold is yet to set into the systems of the folks of...

Review #574: The Liberation of Sita by Volga

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” ----Roseanne Barr Popuri Lalita Kumari, who writes award-winning Telugu poems and stories under her pen name Volga, has penned yet another terrific and feminist tale revolving around...

15 December 2016

Review #573: Dark Things by Sukanya Venkatraghavan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes up cleansed and a little bit stronger.” ----Gregor Collins Sukanya Venkatraghavan, an Indian author, has penned a delectable fantasy story, Dark Things that revolves...

12 December 2016

Review #572: All in Pieces by Suzanne Young

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” ----Albert Camus Suzanne Young, the New York Times bestselling author, pens a realistic and enticing tale about teenage issues in her new book, All in Pieces that revolves around a young female teenager with anger...

11 December 2016

Review #571: Sirens by Joseph Knox

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.” ----Jennifer E. Smith Joseph Knox, an English author, pens his debut crime fiction, Sirens in which the author weaves a bone-chilling and terribly horrifying...

8 December 2016

Review #570: Sultan of Delhi: Ascension by Arnab Ray

Welcome my fellow readers, This is the blog tour for the book, Sultan of Delhi: Ascension, by the popular Indian writer, Arnab Ray. So guys get your seat belts on and enjoy this super-exciting roller coaster ride that awaits you at the next turn...

7 December 2016

Review #569: The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin by Stephanie Knipper

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...” ----George R.R. Martin Stephanie Knipper, an American author, pens her debut contemporary fiction, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette...

6 December 2016

Review #568: Show Me A Mountain by Kerry Young

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” ----Rick Warren Kerry Young, a Chinese African author, pens an incredibly heart breaking historical fiction, Show Me A Mountain that is set across the tropical Jamaican backdrop and it revolves...

Review #567: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.” ----Agatha Christie Agatha Christie, the queen of crime fiction,...

2 December 2016

Review #566: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” ----Fyodor Dostoyevsky Harlan Coben, an international bestselling author, has penned yet another engrossing and riveting thriller, Fool...

1 December 2016

Review #565: The Front Page Murders by Puja Changoiwala

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream.” ----Ted Bundy Puja Changoiwala, An Indian senior journalist-turned-crime-writer, pens a true crime story in her new book, The Front Page Murders in which the author weaves a bone-chilling...

29 November 2016

Author Q&A Session #86: With John Lansing

Hello friends and readers, We meet after a long while. Hope you all are doing fine and having a great day. And with the holidays just around the corner, I also hope that you all are getting your shopping done to your heart's fullest content. May the never-ending Christmas and Thanksgiving wishlist keeps growing! Well about me, I'm great, just got back from a short weekend trip from the beachside...

Review #564: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.” ----Louisa May Alcott First let's just wish this talented and brilliant author, Louisa May Alcott, a very, very Happy 184th Birthday and we will only hope that her stories be loved, read and adored by...

28 November 2016

Review #563: The High Priestess Never Marries by Sharanya Manivannan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ----Robert A. Heinlein Sharanya Manivannan, an Indian...

Review #562: Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern

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 Bronte Cecelia Ahern, the #1 international bestselling author, pens her new contemporary fiction, Lyrebird which reads like a breathy timeless romantic fantasy...

Review #561: Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ----Virginia Woolf Aaron Thier, an American author, has penned a terrific...

23 November 2016

Review #560: The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own” ----Fernando Pessoa Stacey Lee, a Chinese-American author, pens a charming tale of young love and perfume in her new young adult book, The Secret of a Heart Note that revolves around a teenage perfume maker,...

22 November 2016

Review #559: The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.” ----Peter Høeg Leah Kaminsky, an award winning Australian author, has penned a terrific and extremely soul touching story in her...

Review #558: Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale...

20 November 2016

Review #557: The Spy by Paulo Coelho, Zoë Perry (Translator)

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.” ----Mata Hari Paulo Coelho, the international bestselling author, pens a gripping and part fictional tale on the life...

Review #556: Immortal by Krishna Udayasankar

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” ----William H. Gass Krishna Udayasankar, an Indian bestselling author, pens an enlightening and highly thrilling part fantasy and part mythology book, Immortal that revolves around...

17 November 2016

Review #555: I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” ----Chuck Palahniuk Rae Meadows, an award winning author, pens a heart wrenching story about a farm family in her new novel, I Will Send Rain that centers around the Bell family who have migrated...

15 November 2016

Review #554: This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7) by Jeffrey Archer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ----Rick Riordan Jeffrey Archer, the international bestselling author, is back with the final installment in The...

10 November 2016

Review #553: Like a River Glorious (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #2) by Rae Carson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.” ----Charles Dickens Rae Carson, the New York Times best selling author, is back with the most awaited sequel of her young adult fantasy...

Review #552: The Silent Ones by Ali Knight

My rating: 2 of 5 stars “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ----Carlos Ruiz Zafón Ali Knight, an English author, is back again with yet another enticing psychological thriller, The Silent Ones that revolves around the abduction of five teenage girls by a strange...

Review #551: The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) by Agatha Christie

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.” ----Agatha Christie Agatha Christie, the Queen of Mystery, has spun and extremely intriguing crime fiction and the thirteenth tale from her Hercule Poirot series called,...

8 November 2016

Review #550: Instructions for a Second-hand Heart by Tamsyn Murray

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” ----Cassandra Clare Tamsyn Murray, an English author, pens a soul touching and riveting young adult contemporary fiction in her new book, Instructions for a Second-hand Heart that is centered around two young teenagers, one...

Review #549: The Lost Ones by Ben Cheetham

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.” ----Chuck Barris Ben Cheetham, an award winning English author, pens a dark and an intriguing family thriller, The Lost Ones which centers around the mystery of a little missing girl...

3 November 2016

Review #548: Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti

My rating: 5 of 5 stars "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." ----Rabindranath Tagore Aruna Chakravarti, an award winning Indian writer, pens an enlightening story about the Tagore household's women in her new book, Daughters of...

2 November 2016

Review #547: The Private Life of Mrs Sharma by Ratika Kapur

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.” ----Marilyn Monroe Ratika Kapur, an India writer, pens a heart felt and very intimate tale of a middle aged married woman's life and thoughts in her upcoming book, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma...

1 November 2016

Review #546: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.” ----Nathaniel Branden Bryn Greenwood, an American author, pens a heart wrenching and sad tale about abuse and love in her new book,...

31 October 2016

Review #545: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” ----James Herriot Takashi Hiraide, a Japanese writer, has penned a soul touching and thoroughly captivating tale about a cat and a couple's relationship in his book, The Guest Cat that is centered around a mid aged couple who are...

27 October 2016

Review #544: The English Teacher by Yiftach Reicher Atir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.” ----Ian Fleming Yiftach Reicher Atir, the former head of the Israel army’s special ops directorate, pens a mind boggling spy thriller, The English Teacher inspired...

26 October 2016

Review #543: The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as bad as someone else's.” ----Victoria Armour-Hileman Zana Fraillon, an Australian author, has penned a heart breaking and thoroughly compelling...

24 October 2016

Review #542: November 9 by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 1 of 5 stars “You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.” ----Colleen Hoover Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has penned a cheesy and corny new adult love story, November 9 which has a very similar story line just like David...

21 October 2016

Review #541: Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.” ----Richelle E. Goodrich A.S. King, an award winning and bestselling American author, pens a heart wrenching tale of abuse,...

Review #540: One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars "There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together." ----Perumal Murugan One Part Woman, the book which erupted fires of scandal through the right wings forces and other caste groups and that which finally...

20 October 2016

Review #539: All the Sad Young Men by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind...

18 October 2016

Review #538: The Boy Is Back (Boy, #4) by Meg Cabot

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The course of true love never did run smooth.” ----William Shakespeare Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author, is back with her popular Boy series and yet once again the author has successfully enlightened the spark between two old flames in Cabot's signature...

Review #537: Dead is Dead (Jack Bertolino #3) by John Lansing

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ----Anaïs Nin John Lansing, an American author, pens a gripping and page turning thriller, Dead is Dead which is the third book in the series, Jack Bertolino...

17 October 2016

Review #536: ...And a Happy New Year? (The Spinster Club, #3.5) by Holly Bourne

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ----Elbert Hubbard Holly Bourne, an English bestselling author, pens yet another exciting, soul-touching and enlightening contemporary tale, ...And a Happy New Year? which is the final book from Bourne's...

14 October 2016

Review #535: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ----Leo Tolstoy Gillian Flynn, an American bestselling author, has penned a terrific and extremely disturbing psycho debut thriller, Sharp Objects that is centered around a virulent family...

13 October 2016

Author Q&A Session #85: With Jane Corry

Welcome my fellow bibliophiles, It's time for yet another round of author interview and on this session, we have yet another fantastic crime fiction author, Jane Corry, whose new book, My Husband's Wife has created lots of positive noise in the literary world and among the fans of thrillers and mystery. So without wasting a single second, let's, first, welcome this incredible author, and then chat...

Author Q&A Session #84: With Renée Carlino

Hola my fellow readers, Having a charming day I suppose. Well today is the day, when I de-clutter my list of pending author interviews. Let's welcome yet another wonderful, extremely talented bestselling author of contemporary romance books, Renee Carlino. So ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for **virtually claps** Renee Carlino. Renee is here to discuss and chat about her latest...

Author Q&A Session #83: With Nayanika Mahtani

Good Afternoon my lovely and loyal readers, I know I've skipped and cheated myself from this space for quite a while now. Well who can blame it on this ongoing festive season?! As I just wrapped up celebrating Durga Puja, the biggest and the most grand festival of Bengali's, I'm prepping myself up to get ready for the upcoming Laxmi Puja, the goddess of god fortune and wealth, then next in line is...

Review #534: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ----Leo Tolstoy Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, a.k.a, Kamala Markandaya, the late Indian internationally bestselling author, had penned a terrific yet extremely honest tale of a woman's struggling...

6 October 2016

Review #533: Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force. ” ----Salman...

30 September 2016

Review #532: One Half from the East by Nadia Hashimi

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ----C.S. Lewis Nadia Hashimi, an internationally bestselling author, pens a terrific and extremely heart rending yet enlightening tale of love,...

29 September 2016

Review #531: Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Whether it's men, women—it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be...

27 September 2016

Review #530: Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.” ----Charles Dickens Leigh Bardugo, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, is back with the exciting new sequel to her YA fantasy Six of Crows series, called, Crooked Kingdom and this time...

26 September 2016

Review #529: Thorn Jack: A Night and Nothing Novel by Katherine Harbour

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” ----J.M. Barrie Katherine Harbour, an American author, has penned a captivating and heart rending young adult fantasy fiction in her novel,...