Empire Of States

Author: Kossai Abo Kwidir Publisher: Olympia Publishers Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 1/5 Blurb: Love and passion, politics and power; all come into play in this compelling novel with a powerful and emotive message. "I am Magi... and Magi has no price!" Magi is an extraordinary woman with everything going for her; fame, success, beauty,…

The Poison Of Love

Author: K.R. Meera Publisher: Penguin Random House India Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 5/5 Blurb: When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiselled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that…

Dharmayoddha Kalki- Avatar Of Vishnu

Author: Kevin Missal Publisher: Kalamos Literary Services Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 3/5 Blurb: Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an upsurge in unrighteousness,at that time, I take birth again. -LORD GOVIND. Born in the quiet village of Shambala, Kalki Hari, son of Vishnuyath and Sumati, has no idea about his heritage until…

Purple Hibiscus

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2004 Language: English Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in fear of her father, a charismatic yet violent Catholic patriarch who, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Escape and discovery of a new, liberated way of life come when…

You Never Know

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Author: Akash Verma Publisher: Penguin India Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 2.5/5 Blurb: There will be times when you feel you have the best relationship, ever There will be times when it will be the worst that has happened to you There will be times when you know you are…

Adventures In Farland

Author: Moshank Relia Publisher: Rumour Books India Release Date: 19th October 2017 Genre: Children's Fiction Language: English Rating: 4.5/5 Blurb:  Mira Rawat has heard tales of Farland all her life from her mother, who has described the magical place of gnomes, fairies, mermaids and animals, and especially its wondrous festival, the New Moon Party. Now,…

True Liars

Author: Isha Inamdar Publisher: Harlequin Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: Aspiring deejay NJ - Anjana - lives in Mumbai with her best friend Harsh and his boyfriend Sam. When Harsh has to go to Phalodi, his hometown in Rajasthan, for his sister's wedding, he convinces NJ to tag along, posing as his girlfriend…

That Long Silence

Author: Shashi Deshpande Publisher: Penguin Books India Published: 1989 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: Her familiar existence disrupted, her husband's reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy, Jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of the past. Differences with her husband, frustrations in their seventeen-year-old marriage, disappointment in her two teenage children, the claustrophobia of…

The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 2010 Language: English Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Enter a vanished world : Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy…

The Undertaking

Author: Audrey Magee Publisher: Atlantic Books Published : 2014 Language : English Rating : 3/5 Blurb: A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph  of a woman he has never met. Hundred of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries the photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love, however, when Peter and…