Book Review: Aashiqui by Callre

Book: Aashiqui -Where there is love, there is life...

Author: Callre

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Genre: Fiction(Romance)

Blurb:

Rahul Bedi's college dreams include an education, meeting new friends and hopefully launching a successful music career. With the notes in his soul, he feels the rhythm in his rhymes and the beat of the instruments even when he closes his eyes. When he meets Sia Lennox, her voice and her form inspire that music and shine through every interaction they have. There is something about her that pulls him and calls to him... an underlying feeling that maybe she is the one who will complete him and be the partner he need. However, sorority princess Priya walks and talks as if Rahul is already hers, a fact that seems surer by the day. While Sia is not exactly looking for a relationship, there is something about Rahul that makes her catch her breath - and ensures that a confrontation with Priya is inevitable.

Review:

This book I read after I finished a very hefty plot driven book and it really relaxed me a bit. The story is not anything unusual, but it has something to it which can’t be pointed out in general.

This is the story of two people who fall in love, but things are not that easy going for them. I read this book back in July, but I am still not sure how I felt about it. The main concern I had with the book is the length, the story had so much to say but things wrapped way too soon than needed.

The reader is getting connected to the characters and suddenly the ambience changes and characters are in a different reality. I felt a smooth realtionship was missing between the characters and the reader.

Also, I felt that the character of Priya was under done. She had a lot of potential as a character and the story could have been a little interesting, but the narration kept revolving around the struggles of the two main characters which really didn’t allow the book to breathe as much it needed to.

Keeping the comments short I would like to mention the fact that the book was enjoyable but not in a way an avid reader would want it to be. I enjoyed it at some point when the story was going somewhere but every time I saw a peak the downhill was not far.

The book can be a good pick for those who love reading contemporaries which light plot.

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Book Review: Tarikshir- The Awakening by Khayaal Patel

Book: Tarikshir: The Awakening

Author: Khayaal Patel

Publisher: Westland

Genre: Fiction(Fantasy)

Blurb:

A small princely state in Rajasthan is the last bastion of resistance against the might of the British Empire. While unrest surrounding the sudden death of the king of Devangarh grows, young prince Rudra Pratap Chauhan prepares to ascend the throne.

But the kingdom is in turmoil. The Devangarh army is outnumbered and the British forces are closing in. To make matters worse, Rudra discovers the king’s death may not have been accidental after all. The strange appearance and disappearance of a mysterious hooded stranger and a series of ritualistic murders in which the bodies have been drained of blood, spread panic across the realm.

As Rudra struggles to manage his new responsibilities and investigate his father’s death, dark secrets will be uncovered that will disrupt life as he knows it.

Review:

Tarikshir: The awakening is an easy read but not an easy story to pen. It has elements of love, bravery, history and folklore. From the very start the story takes you on a ride which you want to and don’t want to end at the same time.

The story has various characters supernatural or otherwise which makes the story more gleeful and noteworthy. The characters have hidden traits and stories behind their existence which make the things more interesting.

Best thing about the book is that the pace of the story is well maintained by the author and all that he covered in the story seemed relevant and well thought of. Many a times in fantasy books things happen just for the sake of connectivity between two points but here things were drawn together keeping in mind the bigger picture.

All that I would have wanted to see in the book was a clearer and more refined picture of how the supernatural things worked. Things in the book happened in background and we get to know about them together in one go. If things could have unfolded at various points, I might have felt more connected and superbly engrossed in the tale.

I liked the end, but I thought the premise was much better than the outcome. I am surely looking forward to continuing this series and read all the author has left to be said.

About the author:

Khayaal Patel is working on newer stories set in Rudra’s exciting universe, and when he is not, you can find him reading comic books, watching movies, trying to figure out the secrets of the universe and indulging in his incredibly unheakthy addiction to anything chocolate. This is his first novel.

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