20 December 2017

Review #693: The Nine-Chambered Heart by Janice Pariat

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal” ----Gayle Forman Janice Pariat, an award winning Indian writer, has penned an evocative and mesmerizing "fictional" biography through love called, The...

19 December 2017

Review #692: A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love.” ----Revathi Sankaran Amulya Malladi, a bestselling Indian author, has penned a thoroughly refreshing and alluring contemporary fiction called, A House for...

15 December 2017

Review #691: Austenistan by Laaleen Sukhera

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ----Jane Austen The Jane Austen Society of Pakistan started by the journalist-cum-author, Laaleen Sukhera payed a homage to our very dear and favorite 18th century...

13 December 2017

Review #690: The Last Namsara (Iskari, #1) by Kristen Ciccarelli

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” ----Abraham Lincoln Kristen Ciccarelli, a Canadian author, has penned a delightful debut YA fantasy novel called, The Last Namsara that is the first book in a duology named, Iskari and this revolves...

11 December 2017

Review #689: An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.” ----Emma Watson Maggie Shen King, a Taiwanese bestselling author, has penned...

7 December 2017

Author Q&A Session #90: With Sharanya Manivannan

Hello & Welcome, Just a few more days to go before we say goodbye to another year and welcome a new one with open arms. Hope y'all are spending the last few days of the year without any regret or worry, living a little for yourself. So without further wasting any more minute, let's welcome...

Review #688: The Tree Bears Witness (Birbal, #2) by Sharath Komarraju

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” ----J.K. Rowling Sharath Komarraju, an Indian author, has spun a riveting thriller set in one of the greatest Mughal Emperor Akbar's court in Agra in his new book, The Tree Bears Witness which is the second book in the...

5 December 2017

Review #687: Hell! No Saints in Paradise by A.K. Asif

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “It’s all Within. The Whole Cosmos.” ----A.K. Asif A.K. Asif, a Pakistani author, has penned a heart gripping and thoroughly absorbing debut urban fantasy novel set in the futuristic world, Hell! No Saints in Paradise that revolves around a Muslim atheist who embarks...

4 December 2017

Cover Reveal: Love in Lutyens' Delhi by Amitabh Pandey

Hey y'all, Hope everything is going great and awesome for you guys. As for me, life has never been much better. Get ready for a touchy-feely romantic journey of two realistic protagonists in a coming-off age contemporary love story. So let's do a quick cover reveal for this super awesome...

1 December 2017

Review #686: East of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.” ----Noam Chomsky Khurrum Rahman, a Pakistan-born, British author, has penned a pot-boiling thriller, East of Hounslow that revolves around a low-key 30-something...

29 November 2017

Review #685: The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ----Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi Ethel Rohan, an Irish author, has penned an extremely heart touching story called The Weight of Him that revolves around an obese father's loss over his elder son who has committed...

27 November 2017

Review #684: Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” ----Roald Dahl Anna Snoekstra, an Australian author, has penned a riveting psychological thriller called, Little Secrets...

23 November 2017

Review #683: Demi-Gods by Eliza K. Robertson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference between thinking you're immortal and knowing you can survive. Thinking you're immortal leads to arrogance, thinking you deserve the best. Surviving means having the worst...

21 November 2017

Review #682: Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1) by Anchee Min

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.” ----Shan Sa Anchee Min, a Chinese author, has penned an enlightening tale about the last empress of China in her book called, Empress Orchid that revolves around a young concubine of the last emperor of...

16 November 2017

Review #681: The Astonishing Thing by Sandi Ward

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ----Ernest Hemingway Sandi Ward, an American author, has penned a heart warming debut contemporary fiction called The Astonishing Thing that...

14 November 2017

Review #680: Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

My rating: 5 of 5 stars I used to want to save the world. To end war and bring peace to mankind. But then, I glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light. I learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both. The choice each must make for themselves - something no hero will...

10 November 2017

Review #679: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.” ----Chigozie Obioma Chigozie Obioma, an ward winning Nigerian writer, has penned a captivating and a spellbinding tale called, The Fishermen...

9 November 2017

Review #678: Copycat by Alex Lake

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.” ----Confucius Alex Lake, a British novelist, has penned a subtly gripping psychological thriller called, Copycat that is centered around a well established doctor, wife and mother of three kids whose...

8 November 2017

Review #647: A Hundred Little Flames by Preeti Shenoy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.” ----Criss...

6 November 2017

Review #646: Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ----Alfred Tennyson Shrabani Basu, an Indian author has penned an honest memoir about a forgotten man who mattered the most in the life of Queen Victoria in her book called,...

2 November 2017

Review #645: Red Maize by Danesh Rana

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.” ----Abhijit Naskar Danesh Rana, an Indian Police Service officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, has penned a vividly compelling tale about Jammu and...

29 October 2017

Books N Beyond: Unboxing the October Wonder Box

Only a true book lover can fell the joy behind the book subcription boxes. As for me, book subscription boxes deliver ultimate happiness and ample of surprises in the form books and bookish goodies. By now, I've tried almost every other major book subscription boxes avaliable currently in India....

25 October 2017

Review #644: Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ----Dalai Lama XIV Jennifer E. Smith, am American author, has penned an entertaining and light hearted young adult contemporary story called, Windfall that centers around an orphan teenage...

12 October 2017

Review #643: Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” ----Suzanne Collins Kaira Rouda, a USA TODAY bestselling, multiple award-winning author, has penned a gripping psychological thriller called, Best Day Ever that is centered around a perfect married...

10 October 2017

Review #642: My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she re-encounters the trauma.” ----Judith Lewis Herman Gabriel Tallent, a Mexican author, has penned an extremely heart wrenching and horrifying, debut young adult contemporary fiction called,...

6 October 2017

Review #641: You Don't Know Me but I Know You by Rebecca Barrow

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.” ----Nia Vardalos Rebecca Barrow, an English author, has penned a heart...

4 October 2017

Festive Wear Look Book #1: Be Casual in a Saree

Canon 1200D 18-55mm Zoom lens Durga Puja, for us Bengalis, it is not just a festival, it is an emotion that can't be shrugged off or ignored. For 10 days, Devi Durga along with her four children, embark from their heaven abode to the lands of the mortal to shower her immense blessings upon all...

21 September 2017

Review #640: An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.” ----George R.R. Martin Wray...

15 September 2017

Review #639: Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” ----Tennessee Williams Heather Maclean, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned a compelling YA fantasy book called, Toward a Secret Sky that centers around a teenage girl, who just lost her mother in an accident,...

30 August 2017

Review #638: The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (Translator)

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.” ----Margaret Mitchell Åsne Seierstad, an Award winning journalist-turned-Norwegian-author, has penned a delectable and slightly captivating account of her stay with an Afghan family, who owned...

25 August 2017

Review #637: Charlatans by Robin Cook

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no...

22 August 2017

Review #636: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” ----Malcolm X Karin Slaughter, the No. 1 bestselling author, has penned a hair-raisingly chilly and terrifying family thriller, The Good Daughter that centers around two crimes in a small American town, occurring...

10 August 2017

Review #635: Final Girls by Riley Sager

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it...

7 August 2017

Review #634: Bite of the Black Dogs by Sanjay Bahadur

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” ----Mark Twain Sanjay Bahadur, an India author, pens a terrific, nail biting and gripping real-life special operations of Indian Special Forces book based on a true story,...

3 August 2017

Review #633: The Rome Affair by Karen Swan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.” ----Giotto di Bondone Karen Swan, an English author, has penned a compelling, stirring and riveting contemporary romance novel, The Rome Affair that revolves around a former British barrister...

1 August 2017

Review #632: The Crunch Factor by Andaleeb Wajid

My rating: 2 of 5 stars “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ----Jodi Picoult Andaleeb Wajid, an Indian author, has penned a mildly heart warming, Bollywood-ish and spicy contemporary romance called, The Crunch Factor packed...

31 July 2017

Review #631: Here Falls The Shadow by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ----Shannon L. Alder Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, an Indian author, has penned a terrific and nail biting...

28 July 2017

Review #630: Wishbones by Virginia Macgregor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ----Laurell K. Hamilton Virginia Macgregor, an English author, has penned an extremely encouraging and soul stirring young adult contemporary fiction called,...

26 July 2017

Review #629: True Liars by Isha Inamdar

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love...

24 July 2017

Review #628: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ----Voltaire Mur Lafferty, an American author, has penned an intriguing science fiction thriller called, Six Wakes that centers around a...

18 July 2017

Review #627: Secrets of Nanreath Hall by Alix Rickloff

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ----Søren Kierkegaard Alix Rickloff, a critically acclaimed author of historical and paranormal romance, has penned a heart touching historical fiction called, Secrets of Nanreath Hall that revolves...

13 July 2017

Review #626: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ” ----Christian Dior Patrick Süskind, a late German writer and screenwriter's internationally, critically acclaimed and an award-winning novel Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders translated into English...

12 July 2017

Review #625: One Little Mistake by Emma Curtis

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 Emma Curtis, a British writer, pens her debut psychological thriller called, One Little Mistake that revolves around a woman, who is a mother of three beautiful...