REVIEW 10~~ 6 DEGREES - GAME OF BLOGS

6 DEGREES-GAME OF BLOGS

AUTHOR-MULTIPLE

MY RATING- 3.75/5

This books is very interesting i must say.

It is a collaborative effort of numerous bloggers who came together in a competition named as "GAME OF BLOGS". Each group had 8 to 10 members. After  the competition three groups emerged as the winners.

This book is the  concoction of three stories which emerged from these three groups. The most interesting part is that all the stories have different plots but  same set of characters. A family consisting of a father Sekhar,the mother Tara and their daughter Roohi. Other two characters are Cyrus,a law student and Jeniffer. The first story is a science fiction which has aliens and outer space and revelations and awesomeness. The second story is a murder mystery- a crime thriller. This story send chills down my spine. It had an eerie atmosphere to it. The third story is all about life and fighting with your worst nightmares. It is also about friendship and love.

The three stories in this book are:

1.Awakening

2.Entangled

3.Missing-A journey within

MY THOUGHTS:

I thought that all the stories were completely different from one another though all of them had the same characters. It was so refreshing to read such a innovative book.

The first story was really making me question about numerous things which we though was normal. Had the Bermuda Triangle been created by aliens a long time ago? The science fiction component was so beautifully spun around the normal day to day life of a family was really something i enjoyed as a reader.The story opens to a loving family who gets a request from  a friend to keep a law student in their house.Then one day their neighbour sees an alien entity in front of their house. The law student takes a special interest in Tara,the mother. What will happen to the family? And what is the fate of this crumbling Earth? The story unfurls and creates this magical and adventurous tale of aliens and outer space.

The second story was my personal favourite. The story starts with a loving family where the mother is very busy. The little girl Roohi falls down from a tree one day and Cyrus brings her back to her house. Tara at the same time meets Jennifer while in a cafe and hearing her daughter Roohi is injured comes rushing back. They all meet in the house. The light suddenly goes off and comes back in a second. But what happens after that is unimaginable. The maid servant Naina is found dead which a knife on her back and in a pool of blood. Who murdered her?  It was so eerie and creepy it felt like Halloween to me. By the very end of the story I felt it resembled the horror movies.The story had many twists and turns that kept me up on my toes. The poems in this story gave a lyrical touch to the story and the part that scared me the most were the poems from the murderer's perspective. Among all the drama and the suspense there bits and pieces of comical relieve. The police Mr.Java was really funny. That kept me from going haywire while reading all the blood curdling feeling that i was getting while reading this story.

The third story is of two missing persons whose life intertwine and separate. The little girl Roohi is missing and her parent are thrown in a fit. They frantically search for their little daughter. This story showed many emotions and feelings. It talked about sexual orientation and how it is not accepted so easily. It deals with mental illness and how two people deal with it in two different ways. It also talks about rape and how it affects a person so deeply and in a frightening way. I thoroughly enjoyed the story. I enjoyed the story of the individual characters but it felt a little weak when it intertwined between the two characters who were missing. The ending was beautiful and i was happy with the ending.

Overall i really enjoyed this book. I got more than what i had expected. I can surely recommend this book to everyone who want to read something fresh and innovative.

And i also love this cover very much.

  

REVIEW 7~~WHEN ONLY LOVE REMAINS

WHEN ONLY LOVE REMAINS

AUTHOR-DURJOY DATTA

MY RATING-1/5

" In the world of imperfection..there is someone just 

perfect for you.."

SYNOPSIS:

This story opens up to the tragic life of our two main characters Devrat and Avanti. Avanti has lost her mother at a young age and since then has lived with her nani(Mother's mother) in Dehradun. Her father lives in Delhi. Her father is a mathematics professor.Her father is like a stranger to her. Now Avanti is forced to stay with her father so she chooses to be a flight attendant instead of studying as she will then have to spend less time with her father.

It is seen that she was molested and raped by the warden of the hostel she use to stay when young. Now she has a boyfriend which she  doesn't love or want to be with. 

Then there is Devrat, an upcoming singer who is growing in popularity on yutube. But he is drunk and broken.He has nothing he wants more in life than her ex-girlfriend Arundhati who has left him and is engaged to a banker. He is depressed and heartbroken. His life is a complete mess.

These two depressed people meet one night and hope that it never ends.

MY THOUGHTS:

This book just did not work out for me. I was not at all connected to any of the characters, and honestly they were irritaing. There was no plot building, no storyline. I just felt the author was forced to spew out a story full of sex talks. I mean half of this book was filled with that and im not a big fan of sex talks in story books though i really like me a good romance and a little bit of sex.

 This book opened up really well initially. I thought it would be a really good story but then even when i was almost hundred pages into this book the main characters had not met yet. And when they met they did not have a growing chemistry betwen them. I felt it was too rushed. There was no building up of romance. Everything was just instant. 

Avanti's ex-boyfriend was even more infuriating. He acted as if he bought Avanti. He treated her like a servant. He obviously had some anger issues as we can see in various scenes throughout the book. But Avanti was like complying to all the horrendous acts of that man.She was not at all protesting to all his behaviours. She is indebted to him for no reason. She was not at all a bold character. She just lives in her dreamland dreaming about Devrat. 

Devrat was irritating(i said it so many times :P). He lacked any kind of personality.He was a drunk, a chain smoker. A hopeless singer deluded by his ex girlfriend. And he was ready to have sex with any girl in the world. I mean "WHO DOES THAT?". I could not stand his activities. No sympathy for him sorry. He was selfish only thinking about himself all the time. Even in the end he was ignorant of the the sacrifice that Avanti had done for his sake. Thanking the book ended on a good note. 

When the two main characters met it was straight out loe at its full potential. Not a growing love but in the face love. I did not feel any kind of emotions for the characters when they were in love. The was no suspence or heart beating moments at all.

Though this book has nothing much to offer but the later part of the book was a little better than the other parts. But i felt it dragged on the same plot for a long time. I wanted to see some more twists and turns. Some more climax and some more of the chemistry between the two main characters which was definitely lagging.  

The only character i felt was good was Devrats childhood friend. She stuck with Devrat for the whole time. She was atrue friend. Though Devrat tried hitting on her(lightly though) she was not at all in the mindset for any of that(thank God). She was good to him even later on when tragedy hits him and Avanti.Even that part in the last portion of the book was completely uninviting. It just did not compel me to read it. I felt completely offbeat. 

In the end i think this book was not worth the time. It was a waste of time and money. If you want a book of romance try some other books. This was just not up to the mark. In fact it was far below it. It was just not my cup of tea.