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 📚To you with love 📖💯 ✨My rating - 4/5✨ 💖The book "To you with love" by Shravya Bhinder is one of its kind which is a unique one among love themed books.  ✨The main characters Sahil and Ayra were best friends from their childhood. They both are different from each other like two ends of magnets repelling at each other. Sahil being careless and immatured at his character and Ayra on the other hand is quite sensitive and reserved by nature.  ✨The story is narrated from Sahil’s point of view.  When Ayra leaves the school all of a sudden, their friendship gets ended.  They both have moved on with their lives, but one fine day destiny brings them together and they meet after many years at the mall where Sahil hesitates to talk. Later he realises that he still has feelings for her.  ✨He moves to Bangalore to pursue his MBA, though he wanted to become a writer.  They both start chatting with each other which leads them to discover their deep feelings for each other.  When everyt

Once there was me  🌟My rating - 4.5🌟 📖Pages- 419📖 💖The book "Once there was me" is an Amazing book written by Bobby Sachdeva. 🌟 It is commendable that the author has chosen to write so boldly about such sensitive issues. 🌟The book is a semi autobiographical deep personal account of the narrator's life. 🌟It brings out the unexpected demise of the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The author reminisces the difficulties his family had to go through during the time. 🌟The story starts with brutal happenings of his life, who was a victim of communal violence repeatedly, staring at his burning house set afire by the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. 🌟The plot describes about the author who has been recovering from trauma and that he had gone through a lot of ups and downs in his life which had made him more confident about himself but the trauma had deeply impacted his life.  🌟Having experienced both sides of religion – of immersion and detachment, he realizes its influ

  Blood on the Sands  🌟My rating - 4.5🌟 🌠The book "Blood on the Sands" is a murder mystery written by Sujata S. Sabnis. 🌠The plot speaks about the last Indian village in Kuran, on Indo-Pak border lives Mankor, a lovely mother with her two children and her husband who is working as a tracker at BSF head quarter. 🌠The story turns out to be interesting when her husband Virender returns back home during the Navratri festival, because thats were everything starts to change . 🌠A news awaits him when he returns, a brutal murder has happened which later reveals several secrets behind it. It is not just a single murder. It brings out the mysteries that are to be unveiled. 🌠 Something terrible happens later which brings a bad news threatening to destroy Virender's family. Who is the killer? What are those terrible secrets? Will they solve the mystery? What happens in the end? ✨"As chilling secrets tumble out, the end is more sinister than you can ever imag

  Everything I Never Told You  🌟My rating - 4/5🌟 💖The book "Everything I never told you" is a great book written by Ajay K Pandey. In Association with @kharidobechobooks  🌟This book revolves around four main characters Roshan(Father) , Anuj(Son), Manisha( Late mother) & Soha( lost love of Roshan). 🌟 The story is narrated in the perspective of Roshan and Anuj talking about the past and connecting it with the present. 🌟 The Story begins with Roshan being a single parent asking his son's opinion on marrying his long lost love Soha. 🌟 But Anuj hates Soha for no reason as he is not able to accept her in place of his beloved mother who left him at a young age due to Cancer. ✨Will Roshan convince his Son for marrying Soha? Will Anuj accept her as his mother?✨ 💖 The first half explains about how Roshan was seperated from Soha because of their difference in religion being Hindu and Muslim. 💖 The second half brings out the spirituality and the emotions of a mo

Unlocking the lockdown stories  My rating - 4 / 5🌟🌟🌟🌟  The book "Unlocking the lockdown stories" by Juhi Jaisinghani brings out the emotions of us through her short stories. This book comprises of ten amazing stories which is mainly written on the theme of current scenario - The Lockdown. Each of which can be related with our experiences in this lockdown. It talks about friendship, love, family, money, passion and all sought of emotions. The language used is simple and understandable that even a beginner can go for this book. I loved it and I was able to connect my self with each stories. Out of those 10 stories, my favorite was "Lost and found" and "The guy next door". I would recommend this book to everyone, especially the ones who loves short stories. Give it a read.

Thirteen Reasons Why My rating - 3.5/5   Thirteen Reasons Why is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher. It is adapted as a series in netflix.  This book is a famous one, yet I felt as if something was lacking in the plot when I read it. Well to be honest, I didn't like the story very much. The plot was really good but the entire story didn't impress me. The reasons for her suicide seems unrealistic and worthless. Yet the way it was written and conveyed was appreciable.  "You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play." Plot: Clay Jensen the main character of the story finds a strange package of tapes with his name on it lying on his porch when he returns home from school. He discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his crush from school. She had committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah recorded all those 13 tapes with Thirteen names and reasons why she chose to die. Clay gets that p

The Fault in our stars  My rating  - 4/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟  The fault in our stars is a book by John Green, which emphasize on "life and death".  Story revolves around Hazel Grace, a 16‑year‑old cancer patient, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group  and Gus Waters, a similarly afflicted teen whom she met in her cancer support group. They both eventually fall for each other despite the fact that they are not normal. They both have good understanding between them. Living the moment amidst all the struggles and chasing their dreams gives courage for the readers. Something unexpected happens in Amsterdam when she met the author of her favorite book in order to know what happened in the end of the book. Did Hazel get what she wanted? The plot gives us an emotional impact for a long run which makes the book unique in its way.  Give it a read📖

  The Alchemist 🌟 My Rating - 4.5/5 🌟 The book "The Alchemist" is a self  motivational book which mainly emphasize on not giving up. Anyone who loves reading but doesn't know which book to start with, this book is highly recommended. It is a beginner friendly and a simple language book. Coming to the plot, it is no doubt that Paulo Coelho is a legendary writer who inspires his readers through motivating plots. It follows the journey of the boy called Santiago who is a shepherd. His recurring dreams about a treasure near Pyramids leads him towards different places and different people where he learns life lessons out of experience. Hardships that he faces when he chose not to give up leads him to his destination. Did he discover the treasure or not ? Give it a read📖