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PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 The main characters in Ram Chandra Series are Ram, Sita and Raavan. The story revolves around the kidnapping of sita. The first book in the series (i.e Ram Scion of Ikshvaku) revolves around the story of Ram. The big suspense was created in the book which made the readers anxious of the second book to be released. I loved the second book in the series (i.e Sita Warrior of Mithila) as the suspense was revealed. As always Amish’s writing was awesome and the story kept me entertained till the very end of the book and the book was left with another suspense which is to be revealed in next series i.e Raavan. If you read the first book the year it was released then you will definitely love Sita Warrior of Mithila. But if you are picking the books together then you will feel the problem of repeated text. As I read the first book way before the next book in series helped me to r...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 The main characters in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone are Harry, Ron, Hermione and supporting characters include Nevielle, Prof. Dumbledore, Prof. McGonagall, Hagrid, Prof. Snape, Prof. Quirell, Malfoy and lastly YOU-KNOW-WHO. At start story revolves around harry’s childhood. How he is neglected by his uncle, aunt and cousin. Then one fine day letters start dropping on the doormat of Dursley’s and are confiscated by his uncle. Finally he gets to know about HOGWARTS and that he is a Wizard. And Harry’s adventure begins when he arrives at hogwarts. The book was unputdownable. The friendship between harry, ron and hermione was great and how they stick through each other in every circumstance.

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 Main characters in book are Dashrath, Kaushalya, Kaikeyi, Manthra, Ram, Laxman, Bharat, Shatrughan, Sita, Samichi, Raavan and others. The story takes a start when Dashrath declares war against Kuber, the trader king of the island of Lanka whose army is lead by Raavan. With the useful tactics of Raavan somehow Dashrath lost the war for the first time in his lifetime and this was the same day when his elder son RAM is born. The story then revolves around Ram’s Birth, Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood. How he was accused for his father’s defeat and was called the ostracized prince. The journey of Ram continues and it is a delight to read this book to know more about Ram and his method of living, his thoughts about Karma. I learnt a lot from this book. The book definitely includes surprises for the readers and the suspense created in this book will make you crave for the ...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5 The main characters in the book are Clare and Henry. The story revolves around Henry who suffers from a rare condition where he finds himself suddenly pulled into his past or future and how he cannot control his time travelling. It is a unique love story between Henry and Clare, how they meet for first time, when Clare was six and Henry was thirty six. How Clare finds Henry in her present and they both decide to get married and deals with the struggle of living a normal life. The story will keep you stick to the book because you do want to know about what Henry sees and deals with when he time travels to his future or his past. It is a must read as the story is unusual and fascinating.

PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 OVERALL RATING: 3/5 The main characters in the book are Sheila O’Brien, Paddy O’Brien, Frank, Conky, Jonny, Tariq, Asaf Smolensky, Lev, Gloria. The story revolves around Paddy O’Brien who is associated with underworld. How he rules the south of the Manchester. The story starts when Lev stabs Paddy in a fight and paddy is admitted in hospital where he has heart attack. While recovering in hospital paddy realises he needs to spend his last days with his wife and children and inform his wife to pack their bags as they are moving to Thailand and he is shutting his business. He decides to sell his business to his rivals Jonny and Tariq (the Boddlington Gang) who rules north. Now the story takes pace as how paddy and boddlington’s work to make the deal successful, but a war rages between them when one of the family member of paddy dies. I felt the book lack in the plot and entertainment. The o...

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5 The main characters in the book are Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Blomkvist has made a powerful position in journalism by exposing corrupt establishments. So a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot wait to reveal the truth about the trafficking industry and all those who are controlling it. While investigating a young couple is found dead in their apartment and Lisbeth is accused for a murder for which she is hiding and no one is able to find her. How Blomkvist reveal the truth about the murder, sex trafficking and find Lisbeth and asks for her help. How they both work together on this case is interesting as Lisbeth is hiding and can be contacted through computer only. How being accused of a murder Lisbeth becomes the Heroine of the book. This thriller is very gripping and astonishing.

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5 Characters in the book are Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen. The story starts when Clay receives a box full of tapes. The tapes consists 13 reasons why Hannah baker commits suicide. The people Hannah thinks played an important role in ending her life are mentioned in those 7 tapes. What role the mentioned people in tape played, what they did to her, how incidents happen and affected Hannah are worth to read. The story was so well written and every incident was so well communicated which makes this book a good read. People who love thriller or suspense should definitely go for this book. Reasons and incidents mentioned in the book will interest you to read the next page and complete the book asap because this book is that good. I finished this book in a day so you can imagine how intriguing this book was. So if you are thinking to read this book just go for it.

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 The main characters in the book are Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters. Both hazel and Augustus’s are cancer patient. They meet in a support group meeting and from there the friendship takes place and turns into love commitment. There’s this book mentioned named An Imperial Affliction where hazel’s and Augustus’s journey revolves. How in his end days he fulfill her wish is so awesome. This book is so good, funny and emotional. It doesn’t matter you are reading it for the first time or the 100th, you’ll feel each and every emotion same as you felt for the first time you read this book. This was not my first time read but definitely was not my last too. You’ve got to read it people. That’s all. The book will leave you teary eyed but with a smile on your face. Be it this book or the movie adaptation they both are close to my heart.

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5 Main Characters in the book are Robert Langdon, Vittoria Vetra, Maximilian Kohler, Olivetti, Camerlengo. The story starts when a world renowned scientist is murdered and the murderer has stolen his invention which can destroy the whole city. The murderer has branded the scientist’s chest with symbol which point towards illuminati, a secret brotherhood who works against the Catholic Church. The other part of the story takes place in Rome where a new pope is to be elected and the top 4 candidates are kidnapped by the same brotherhood and the invention is somewhere in Rome and is about to explode in 24 hr. What happens next is you should read in the book. How Robert and Vittoria (scientist’s daughter) tries to find the invention. This book is fast paced and you do wanna know about what happens to the top 4 kidnapped candidates, whether Robert and Vittoria are abl...

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 OVERALL RATING: 4/5 Main Characters in the book are Battees, Noorie, Johnny, goongi. The story starts when an orphanage gets destroyed with a bomb blast and Battees, Noorie, Johnny and Goongi are trapped under the rubble of destroyed orphanage. These children are taken to the nearest police station and battees tell the officer that he had seen the person who planted the bomb. The story now all revolves around battees how his testimony can put the bomber in jail for good. Meanwhile he and his friends get to know that goongi can get into their minds through telepathy as she can’t speak. The story continues how these children tackles every problem, every situation, how battees helps goongi to unite with his family, the sweet relation between battees and goongi is all to be read in the book. While reading I felt that this book is meant for children, a perfect read because this book is a...

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING S TYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 OVERALL RATING: 4/5 Main characters in the book are Rebecca Bloomwood, Suze, Luke. The shopaholic series continue with this book and Rebecca and Luke are now a thing. The story takes pace when Luke ask Rebecca to move to New York with him as more opportunities for her job and his business lies there. Now when they reach there Luke gets busy with his business deals and Rebecca explores the city. Without realisation she shops a lot and couldn’t control the urge to shop which is the overall idea of this whole series. The consequences she faces afterwords is worth reading in this book and how it effects Luke and his business is you need to know. The sweet romance between Luke and Rebecca, how suze stays with Rebecca in her ups and downs, their friendship goals all is to be read in this book. The story was well written and it was a light read. You should give it a shot because i liked the ...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 Its not a review technically because i feel this whole series doesn’t need a review as the whole world knows how well the series is written by J.K Rowling. Every age group be it a 6 year old child, a 16 year old or a 60 year old person, each and every person loves this series. J.K Rowling has created a perfect fantasy world for us. We all need smartness of Hermione, wittiness of Ron and a friend like harry. We need teachers like Dumbledore to guide us and Snape to protect us. Lastly a game keeper like Hagrid. We all need Hogwarts in our lives. The plot, characters, climax, writing style is beyond reviewing. A perfect book for everyone. If you haven’t read or haven’t got a chance to read please do give it a shot because you’ll will love it and adore it. Watching movie is a different experience as the characters become body and shape but reading is whole lot of a differen...

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Main characters in the book are Dr. Kat Novak, Adam Quantrell. Adam here is a wealthy person and president of Cygnus Pharmaceuticals. His daughter maeve is missing and she doesn’t wants to be found. Now in south Lexington city 3 junkies have died and after the autopsy Dr. Novak gets to know that a new drug is been floated in the town and junkies are taking them. The drug is being manufactured in Adam’s pharma which was not supposed to be released as the drug was not tested and approved. Who got the drug out, where is maeve, why she doesn’t want to be found, how kat and adam will stop the flow of drug and stop the killings is you are going to find in this book.I have read other books by Tess Gerritsen and i liked them all but this book was a little disappointment  for me. The writing no doubt was awesome but the blurb and plot didn’t match. The title of the book di...

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 OVERALL RATING: 4/5 Main characters in the book are Nicolas (nick), Alex, Marianne, Toby, Lucas, Christina and last but not the least Pegasus. This is a well written story by Danielle Steel. The story was set up in the second world war in Europe where Hitler is forcing Jews to either flee from the country or join the camps. Nick and Alex are two childhood best friends and story revolves around their lives. As Jews are in danger nick father reveals the truth about his birth that he is a quarter jew and to save himself and his two sons (Toby and Lucas) he has to leave the country. Alex helps nick by giving his well bred horses and one of them being Pegasus, a beautiful white stallion and asks him to join the famous Ringling Brother’s Circus. To save his father, friend, his two sons and himself from consequences he agrees to leave the country with his sons and join the circus. Bei...

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 OVERALL RATING: 4/5 Main characters in the book are Zélie, Tzain, Amari, Inan. The story starts when Amari (Orïsha’s princess) runs into Zélie (a maji) while escaping the palace and asks Zélie to help her, seeing not much of a choice with soldiers everywhere Zélie agrees and with help of her brother Tzain they escape. Both Zélie and Tzain interrogates Amari why she was running from her own army being a princess and then she reveals she has a scroll which can bring magic back in Zélie’s and in every maji’s life, present in Orïsha. So the hunt begins to bring magic back and fight the king who doesn’t want magic to return so he sends his son Inan to bring her sister back with the scroll. The plot of the book was so intriguing which couldn’t stop me to read this books as quickly as i can. The writing was to amazing, the story was so well written whic...

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 OVERALL RATING: 3.5/5 The main characters in the book are Winston. The story revolves around the lives of citizen of Oceania and one of them is Winston who works for the Government. The book is based on history where Government plays the huge role. This novel portrayed the future of mankind at risk as the history was re-written by the Government(BIG BROTHER) and their employees. People were not allowed to think, to act, to react and when they did they had to face the consequences. The consequences were so harsh which were written perfectly in the book. That was the time when people could not trust themselves as they could get arrested for having a particular facial expression, people couldn’t trust their children, friends, family, neighbors. You will read about how Winston and his life turns upside down dealing with all this in his daily routine. I liked the book in some parts and some...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 4.8/5 The main characters in the book are Feyre, Tamlin, Lucien, Rhysand, Amarantha. What to say about this fantasy novel? I loved this book is all i can say and it gets better with the following parts of the book. Feyre is a mortal who’s a huntress. She hunts for survival to keep her family alive. Her life turns upside down when she hunts down a magical creature. She is been bound to a treaty and is forced to stay on the lands of prythian. So the story of survival of Feyre begins where she meets high lord Tamlin and his friend Lucien. She is allowed to roam anywhere but not allowed to go back to her village. she notices everyone in Tamlin’s court has a mask on their face and are under a curse of Amarantha. The story moves forward and she gets to know that she is the key to break their curse. You will read how Feyre, Tamlin, Lucien work together to break the curse, the love d...

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 OVERALL RATING: 4/5 The main characters in the book are Milli Bajwa and Karan Singhania. The story is set in Chandigarh, India where lives Milli who’s a book lover and works at Chandigarh international airport. She is a character which you can relate with. She’s surrounded with problems but is motivated to tackle them anyhow. Her life takes turn when her brother who’s in army dies, being a only child left in family without a father she has to take care of hr mom who’s sliding towards depression. She needs to keep a check on her job, her mom, expenses etc. One day to take a break from all this she downloads the app and meets Karan and they both start chatting. They become friends who does not keep secrets and then turn to lovers. But Karan has a huge secret about his life and his past. How Milli gets to know about the secret and the what is her reaction towards the secret is you’ve got to read...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 OVERALL RATING: 5/5 The main characters in the book are Feyre, Rhysand. If you read the court of thorns and roses and liked it, then, you’re going to love this book for sure. Here in this book Feyre is no more a human being, she’s one of the faeries. And not an ordinary faerie, she has powers of every high lord in the prythian world. You will read how feyre cope with her new life which she never expected and wanted. How Tamlin and Feyre who were about to get married drifts apart. How Rhysand helps Feyre to enhance her new powers as a new war is raging which will destroy both the magical world as well as human world. You’ll see how they become friends form foe. The new love story between Rhysand and Feyre is worth to read. And, and, and there’s a huge twist and a new plot waiting in end for you in the book. So do read the book because that will blow your mind. Recommended for all and a must r...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Overall Rating: 4.8/5 The main characters in the book are Anjum/Aftab, Zainab, S. Tilottama, Saddam and others. This book is so intense and a little bit eye opener. For me its a must read for all. The book revolves around lives of above mentioned characters and how they are linked together is what makes the writing great. Anjum/Aftab is a Eunuch (hijara) and one of the main characters in the book. You will get to know about the struggles of hijaras, what they go through in their lives, how they feel and work to survive in the society. I have a soft corner for hijaras so i was just moved and a little heartbroken to read all about Anjum and this was my favourite character in the book. Zainab was a abandoned child found by anjum on a visit to masjid whom she adopted. The relationship between them how she grew up as a person is to read about. Now the other main character S. Til...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Overall Rating: 5/5 The main characters in the book are Harry, Ron, Hermione and others. This series doesn’t require reviews seriously. This series is epic. The more I’m getting in the series I’m loving the writer. Now this part of the series starts with third year at Hogwarts and an awful news for everybody who study or works at Hogwarts, as a mass murderer has escaped the prison of Azkaban. On the other hand harry needs to get Dursleys sign a permission letter to get into Hogsmeade before the school starts but as usual everything goes against harry when it comes to Dursleys. The teachers are tensed about the escape and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called to guard the school. These guards are soul sucking creatures. But any how the prisoner enters the Hogwarts and the story takes pace and Harry, Ron, Hermione gets to save not one but two lives this time in the s...

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Overall Rating: 5/5 Overall Rating: 3/5 The main characters in the book are Katniss, Peeta. I picked this book because i found the plot of the book(trilogy) very intriguing. Twelve boys and Twelve girls from different districts are forced to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games and there is only one rule: kill or be killed and only one amongst them can survive. Now there are total of 12 districts and each district has to select a boy and a girl to send to participate in the games. From district 12 Peeta is the chosen one but Katniss volunteer for the games to save her sister. The story is about survival in the games. This book was fast paced with different twist, turns and strategies by participants and organizers to keep the game interesting and survive in the game. Katniss is a strong female character in the book and you’ll love her when you read the book. How bot...