Review #701: The Sky at Our Feet by Nadia Hashimi

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”

----Drew Barrymore

Nadia Hashimi, an internationally bestselling author, pens a heart wrenching and extremely intriguing tale about two kids' fearless adventures around the city of Big Apple to get to an address in her new book, The Sky at Our Feet. The story revolves around a young Afghan-American boy, goes on a quest to find his beloved aunt in New York City along with a friend whom he met at a hospital, when his mother is taken away by the police on the pretext of illegal immigration issue. But on their way the two kids face a lot of challenges and dangers, and how they overcome that has been brilliantly portrayed by the author.

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Review #624: Against All Odds by Danielle Steel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

----Karl Lagerfeld

Danielle Steel, the #1 bestselling author, is back with her new adult fiction book called, Against All Odds that unravels the story of a widowed mother and her four children, who are now adults, and whose terrible life's choices land them up in a mucky situation, yet the mother, who already warned them against their decisions, stands strongly by their side, and fights for them against all odds, even though her own personal life goes haywire. A story that vividly portrays the parent's undying support for their children, no matter what.

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Review #589: Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

----Steve Maraboli

Amy Poeppel, an American author, has penned a terrific and extremely entertaining debut contemporary fiction novel, Small Admissions that revolves around a fresh young graduate, who after a messy breakup goes into the caveman zone on her couch and with her sweatpants, bags a job offer to work as an admission administrator in a posh private school, but little did this young and intelligent graduate knew that the parents and the students who come for the admission procedure would go at any lengths to just to get a mere admission in such a posh school.

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Review #377: The Letter Writer by Dan Fesperman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.”

----P. Sainath

Dan Fesperman, an award-wining American author, pens his new historical crime fiction, The Letter Writer that narrates the story of a newly appointed detective in NYPD who gets tangled up in a murder investigation and that is when he meets a mysterious, strange and highly knowledgeable man. Set in the post World War II New York, the author composes an intriguing as well as thrilling tale of lies, money scam, murder, scandal and corruption laced with an unusual friendship.

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Review #340: The Travelers by Chris Pavone

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.”

----Raymond E. Feist

Chris Pavone, the New York Times best-selling author, pens yet another heart-gripping thriller, The Travelers, that unfolds the story of a travel journalist who travels to Argentina for his assignment where a beautiful Australian women makes him an undeniable offer that is surely going to change the course of his life by throwing him onto the face of a dangerous global agenda against one's country.

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Review #332: Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. "

----Liz Taylor

Candace Bushnell, an international best-selling author, has penned a sassy tale of four blond women from Manhattan, in her book, Four Blondes that narrates the tale of four different women, independent and strong-willed, who pave their way in the jungle called life by standing strong along with the men, fashion, age, needs and fame and to claim fame, they would do anything for it.

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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.

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Review #258: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...” 

----Christina Westover, an American novelist

Patricia Highsmith, an American classic novelist, has penned an incredible tale of love and despair between two same-sex human beings, originally known as The Price of Salt. Later it was re-published with the title, Carol. And in the wake of Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across all the states of USA, I chose to write the review of this beautiful same-sex love story which I read quite a few years ago.

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Review #211: Climax (The Publicist #3) by Christina George

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



"Never let an old flame burn you twice."

----Unknown

Christina George, an American author, pens the next journey in Kate Mitchell, a successful publicist's life where she runs into her old flame, and she never ever have imagined that her old flame still holds so much power over her feelings, until things get messy in her already perfect life, in the new book, Climax which is the third book, in The Publicist series.

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Review & Giveaway of Noise by Brett Garcia Rose

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I was searching for answers I would never find, Just to keep busy of my mind”

----Bria Martin

Brett Garcia Rose, an American writer, software entrepreneur, and former animal rights soldier and stutterer, spun a story of fear and search in such a way that pushes you on the edges as the fear seeps into your heart and mind, in his new book, Noise.


Synopsis:
Lily is the only person Leon ever loved. When she left a suicide note and disappeared into a murky lake ten years ago, she left him alone, drifting through a silent landscape.
Or did she?

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Review #144: Being Audrey Hepburn by Mitchell Kriegman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
----Audrey Hepburn

Mitchell Kriegman, an American filmmaker cum writer, penned his tribute to the America's "fair lady", Audrey Hepburn with his new novel, Being Audrey Hepburn . It centers around Hepburn's one of the most die-hard fans, Lisbeth, who channels Hepburn's trademark and sophisticated grace and charm as she explores the world of glitz and glamor in NYC.

Synopsis:
Lisbeth comes from a broken home in the land of tube tops, heavy eyeliner, frosted lip-gloss, juiceheads, hoop earrings and “the shore.” She has a circle of friends who have dedicated their teenage lives to relieve the world of all its alcohol one drink at a time.
Obsessed with everything Audrey Hepburn, Lisbeth is transformed when she secretly tries on Audrey’s iconic Givenchy. She becomes who she wants to be by pretending to be somebody she’s not and living among the young and privileged Manhattan elite. Soon she’s faced with choices that she would never imagine making – between who she’s become and who she once was.

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Review #121: The Biology of Luck by Jacob M. Appel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.”
                                                              ----Jacob M. Appel

I don't why I'm so much drawn to marriage quotes which are dark and justifying- not the sugar-coated ones! (PS: I'm not married!) Jacob M. Appel's remarkable quoted from the book, The Biology of Luck delves into the world of a hopeless-romantic tour guide's debut novel that is written about his lady love. Yes, you read it right- a novel inside a novel! And I don't know why, this very idea of novel inside a novel set across all the 5 boroughs of New York reminds of David Gilbert's & Sons ! But every novel has its own story, likewise, Appel's novel thrushes us inside the life of a promiscuous and egotistic woman.

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Review #81: & Sons by David Gilbert

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


John Robert Wooden, a retired American basketball coach, quoted about "fathers" as:

“Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.”

David Gilbert, is one such American author, who has spun an incredible tale which explores the whole dimension of a father-son relationship in an all new angle, in his latest release, & Sons .

Synopsis:
Told from the first person narrative, Philip Topping unfolds a story about the life and times of his favorite author, A.N. Dyer, who also happens to be his father's best friend. The Manhattan funeral of Charles Henry Topping would have been a minor affair but for the identity of the eulogist: reclusive author A.N. Dyer, whose novel Ampersand stands as a classic of teenage angst. Now Andrew Newbold Dyer takes stock of his own life, the people he’s hurt and the novel that will endure as his legacy. He realizes he must reunite with his three sons before it’s too late. Eldest son Richard is a screenwriter in Californian exile. In the middle is Jamie, who has spent his life capturing the sorrow that surrounds him. And last is Andy, now a pupil at the boarding school that inspired Ampersand. It is only when the hidden purpose of the reunion comes to light do the sons realize what’s at stake – for their father, themselves and three generations of Dyers.

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