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Tales from the Himalayas Book review 💯📖 ⭐ My Rating - 4. 5/5⭐ The book "Tales from the Himalayas" is a beautiful book written by Author  Priyanka Pradhan. This book is collection of 17 short stories set in Uttarakhand, few of it are based on true events. This book is written for young readers although it has a lot for adults too. This book is a delight which takes us in a ride through the journey back to our childhood. It leaves sparkles in ur mind while reading this book. All these stories are themed with the beauty of Nature, love, friendship, family and hope. It teaches many lessons and influences the readers on a good note. My personal favorite story is "The long lost Friend". Every story leaves a strong message in the end. The writing style was very good and it is beginner friendly. I love the colourful book cover and its title. I enjoyed the entire book. Overall it was a happy read, give it a try. 

 Fixer Book review 💯📖 ⭐ My Rating - 4/5⭐ The book " Fixer " is a fictional book written by Author Suman Dubey. This book is a suspense thriller which has unpredictable story line with twists and turns. It was completely engaging till the last page of the book. The book is of 3 divisions which consists of many chapters within them. Author has done much work behind the book as we could see many unknown facts and terms related to cricket in this book.  'The Fixer' talks about cricket which includes betting, mafia and politics. The protagonist Neil Upadhyay, is a former bowler of Indian cricket team who is from a rich family background. Though he was good at cricket, he quits for some reasons. He is someone who loves cricket crazily. He is in a situation where he has completely lost everything that he once had, a good family, his love, his family business and many more because of his love towards Cricket.  Now he wants to regain the reputation he had long back. At this

  It's Punny, oops I mean funny!! Book review 💯 ⭐ My Rating - 4.8/5⭐ The book " It's punny, oops I mean funny " is a cool fiction written by Author Namita Das. This is her debut book yet she has done a great job with her professional writing style with great humor sense. This book is a collection of short stories which is highly relatable to the daily routine life, a normal couple go through. Anu, the main lead is a writer who is very ambitious. She wants her book to be a best seller but the problem is she needs a good plot to start with. Suddenly an idea strikes and when she started writing, she writes a series of episodes of her real life experience - with some humor mix. I smiled and even laughed at many pages. This book is something different from all other short stories I've read. I would appreciate the author for making us laugh with the power of her words. The writing style was very cool and easy to comprehend. The story was fast paced without any lag

Social love Book review 💯📖 ⭐ My Rating - 4/5 ⭐ The book "Social Love" is a fictional story written by Author Adbhut, an young author. This book talks about Love, friendship, family and dreams. Author of this book is just 17years old,which I highly appreciate. This book is written in first person. The story is about Abeer, who is in a very good position now, narrates his life story from his point of view. During his schooling, he is trying to develop in his studies, he is a person who is very ambitious and has many goals. He has a best friend named Amaya, shortly called as Amu. Abeer narrates all the struggles he faced and the way he rised up to this position. He says that everything was different until one fine day when Ayesha came into his school life. Abeer, Amaya and Ayesha get close and became good friends. Ayesha, being a smart & charming girl changed his life completely and his life transformed into something that he never had imagined. Abeer has some feelings fo

Dawn - the warrior princess Book review 📖💯 ⭐My rating - 4/5⭐ The book " Dawn- the warrior princess of Kashmir" is a unique fantasy Novel written by Author Rakesh Kaul. Kashmir is a eye catchy place. What comes to our mind when we think about Kashmir? It's beauty and the border terrorism. Apart from that we forget to look deeper. This book brings out the other side of Kashmir. The story is set in 3000AD, which revolves around the girl - Dawn, a 16 year girl who is depicted as the only living girl in her kingdom. She has lived her life hiding at a Pod in trans - Himalayas. Where in she gets to see two strange creatures (Yuva & Kira) on her 16th birthday. This is were the story begins to be interesting. They ask her to battle the Troika, and claim her as a long lost princess. Their comes the part of a  Trio - Dushita (overlord), Alman (AI machine) and Arman (merciless pioneer), who have controlled everything so long. The story talks about an Apocalypse, the world is he

 The boy called Ambi book review!! ⭐My rating - 4.3⭐ "The Boy Called Ambi" is super cool fiction written by Authors Gayathri Venkatesan and This book is a bit close to me, since it brought a lot of childhood memories back.  The Plot is about Ambi, a grown up who is sitting and thinking about his childhood. The story of his childhood memories are narrated smoothly.  He is a obedient boy with many siblings, whose family is shifting from Tirunelveli to Trichy for business purpose as they had a great need of money to run their big family. There were some tamil words included at places which I liked a lot. And the story is set in both South & North India. The story revolves around Ambi, whose childhood has huge difference from the current lifestyle. Author has beautifully portrayed his childhood and its scenario long back.  It in turn takes us back to the memory lane, which we treasure with pleasure. I personally felt happy and found myself smiling at places which reminded me

In the city of clouds Book review 💯📖 ⭐My rating - 4.7/5⭐ "In the City of clouds" is beautiful love story written by Author Swetarani. This is her debut book. This book is a Romance Genre book which has connections from the historic period couple to the present life. The Story is set in Northern India. The story revolves around Hridya, a common girl with dreams to pursue as an Engineer. She faces certain obstacles during her college life. When Destiny brings in love of her life, Aarav, a simple guy from a royal family who wishes to lead a normal life just like every one apart from the riches he have, who falls for Hridya but doesn't have confidence to reveal it to her. But once, she finds out about his love through his diary. Yet she refuses his love and continues her relationship with him as a good friend. Later they both part their ways, and start working. When She was on a visit to a fort, suddenly she meets Aarav there. That's were the resemblance of the historic

 Myself - Book review!! ⭐My rating - 4.3/5⭐ " Myself- A fictional story " is really a great read which is a debut book by Author SriKarthik Vasudevan. These days Everyone wants to have an independent life. A life without anyone's support. This book is something which brings out the same reality through a fictional story.  The story revolves around an eighteen-year-old boy, who is in search of making his own identity. His father Mr. King, who is a business tycoon in his city fiero, wants his son to be a perfect heir after him. He wants him to transform himself into a responsible Man. Hence his son has to go through certain life changing & thrilling situations and lessons which will lead him to something unexpected in the end.  The mystery travels with him and in the end, I can assure that a small impact of inspiration lays in our mind. Overall it was a short read with great flow through out the book!!

An Author interview with Anil Kallagunta, Author of "A Journey with 2 Angels". 1. When did you first realize that you want to be a writer ?  Ans- I have a habit of penning down any incident that makes me feel bad and tearing that paper. This would relieve my stress. When I am left out without any options in life, lost money in business, lost job and lost confidence, I remembered I got best article award during college days. So felt like writing a story will relieve my pain and started this book ‘A Journey With 2 Angels’ in 2017.Most of the situation comic scenes in book happened in my college days, but added a bit of fiction in imagining the story. 2. How long does it take you to write a book? Ans-  I have started my book in 2017 and wrote 400 pages in word document. It took 3 years to complete the book. 3. What comes first, the plot or characters? Ans- I choose my subject first and do research on characters and characterization. Once after understanding the plot completely I

Author Interview with SriKarthik Vasudevan, author of the book "Myself - A fiction story"  Here are some questions : 1. When did you first realize that you want to be a writer?  Ans- I had the aspiration to do something that would give me the recognition / an identity. So, I chose to be a writer as I had the experience of co-writing some articles during my schooldays. 2. How long does it take you to write a book? Ans- This is my first book. 1st half of the book was written during my school days 14 years ago. When I decided to write, I thought to restart working on this content first. 2nd half of the books was completed in 1 day. 3. What comes first, the plot or characters? Ans- For me, its plot. It is the foundation upon which characters are built. 4. Does your family support you? Ans- My family is always supportive of whatever I do. In this instance, I didn't inform them until the book is out for sale, as I wanted to keep it a big surprise for my kid's first

  The Tales of Unearthly Encounters Review  🌟Book Review - 4/5🌟 Blurb -  This book is a collection of several short supernatural stories - stories which should not be categorized as gross horror. These stories are an attempt to bond cosmic horror with psychological horror. They question the basic nature of reality and how it is perceived. They waver somewhere between real and surreal, a misty place which should not be explored even in nightmares.   My Review : The book upend conventional thoughts of what constitutes evil and what's frightening. Each story delivers not so ghostly but unearthly characters to preserve you on feet. It's greater supernatural than full blown horror and with evil timber, monster underneath bed.  Author also hold the same old traditional Indian horror along with modern paranormal horror, however what disappoint is that the book did not efficiently build up an environment of dread. It's too fast paced to construct the basics for the reader. Too so

 Become the Author of your life🤞 🌟My Rating - 4/5🌟 " Become the Author of your life" is psychological self help book written by Ami Williams which will transform our lives better. Most of us wish to have a peaceful and happy life but we forget to practice it. We forget that "our life is in our hands" and that's exactly what this book will teach us. This book is a pack of 10 chapters which is extremely motivational. Author is a psychologist, who puts her experiences with patients in the form of small stories that brings light to our life. She puts forth the points that we tend to learn and practice & those things that we left for granted. Author also speaks about Procrastination and its effects. As we all have the habit of procrastinating things, we always postpone and put things one bye one on the queue. We fail to understand that Procrastination is something that increases the impact of our self esteem to do things at the right time. This book brings

  The Gifted words review 🤞💯 🌟My rating - 4.5/5🌟 ✨ The book "The Gifted words" is a fictional story writen by Author Manish Kumar. ✨ The story is about A father who has only few days left to live but has  great concern and love for his daughter Sneha. He was a librarian who has just moved in to Mumbai to stay with his friend for the next few days left for him inorder to spend them the way he likes to. While on the other hand Sneha, is a charming young girl who is in love with Prince, the man of her life. They both are in deep love without knowing the fact that destiny will hit them hard. ✨ Sneha's father has a disease that's going to kill him, but what he ever considers the most important is Sneha's happiness and her healthy life more than his life just like any father would think. He wants to see her shine in her life with a perfect partner through out her life. ✨ But the question is will he accept Prince as a "Perfect Man" for his daughter? Wi

 The Emperor review 💯🤞 🤗My Rating - 5/5🤗 The book "The Emperor" by Author Ram Joshi is a motivational attempt which is a story of a Penguin, which is written to motivate us - hoomans indirectly.  The Emperor is the story of a Penguin - Em in Antarctica who has big dreams & Goals who is ambitious just like anyone of us but doesn’t have the courage to pursue them. The story revolves around the Penguin - Em (short form of emperor) who is the youngest of his tribe. The story is set in Antarctica, bringing out its beauty into words.  He lost his parents at a very young age. He grew up with a lot of dreams facing struggles and hardships in his journey of life.  He being ambitious wants to go to the top of the mountain, explore places and to find what's beyond them. Being an animal is not easy, hiding and safeguarding themselves from the predators & hunters is harder. Em wants to do everything he wishes, but his tribe doesn't agree for what he desires and says th

That's true I love her review 📖💯 🌟My rating - 4 /5🌟 This book is a LGBT fiction novel written by Author Priyanka Singh. I picked up this book because of its beautiful eye catchy cover which has a secret revelation of the story hidden in the cover which you can find if you notice sharply. When I started reading the book, I found that the main character's name was Ammara, which is my long term favt for no reason. It made it even more interesting. Coming to the plot, the story begins with a fight between Ammara and Raghav which literally ends up in breakup. I would say that they both were at fault!! She feels really broken and is finding ways to cope-up with it.  That's when her parents make plans for a trip to Thailand, for which she didn't agree earlier and later accepts to travel with them. I should mention that the author brings visuals of Thailand with her beautiful portrayal of plot scenes. Ammara travels to Thailand without knowing the fact that it will be a tur

Quit your Monday review 📖💯 🌠 My rating - 4.3/5🌠 The book "Quit your Monday" written by Runjhun Noopur is a bundle of motivation packed inside a book. Are you in need of some Monday motivation? Then try this book!! People are always busy with work and life, moving towards the path of meaningless journey is what the author speaks about in this book. This book is all about bringing us out from the normal life and helping us to transform our life into a much happier & better one. This book is written in a story description way to give motivation indirectly. The story is about Annay, who is also trapped in his stressful life just like us.  Destiny brings changes unlocked in the form of Pam, whom Annay meets in his life unexpectedly. Pam takes us to a different kind of lifestyle who helps Annay discover 7 secrets of happiness in 7 different ways which unveils the beauty of life which we never got to realize. The 7 traps and the secrets behind it tranforms Ann

  Walks Through Life - Stories  💯📖 🌠My Rating - 3.8/5🌠 💫The book " Walks Through Life - Stories " is a book written by Santhosh Komaraju. 🌟🌟 Winner in the Short Story category of the National Indie Excellence Award.🤞 Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Short Story category of 2020 International Book Awards 🌟🌟 💫This book is a collection of nine short stories ✨ The Hidden Kingship, ✨Divine Ax, ✨Blessing From a Curse, ⭐A Letter From the Well, ⭐Beyond the Bar of Humanity, ⭐Rise of Motherhood, 🌟Two Misjudgments, 🌟King of All, 🌟A Gold Message 💫As the name suggests, all stories from this book are about life lessons to enlighten readers, that conveys strong messages in a very subtle yet deeply touching way. 💫In Most of the stories, I felt like it was a bit lengthy and dragging which makes the story complicated. 'The Hidden Kingship, Blessing Of a curse' takes time to comprehend. 💫My favorite out of these stories were - "Divine Ax

 Faith and the beloved Review!!  🌟My rating - 4.5/5🌟 🌠The book "Faith and the beloved" is a thrilling novel written by author Kochery Shibu. 🌠 There are two parallel plots in which one deals with Alice and her mother Naithy and other deals with Prem and his older brother Arun and both their lives cross path with each other. 🌠The story revolves around Alice,  Naithy Cherokil, her stepfather Tony.D.Souza, Arun and Prem Rollands. But there are several other characters interconnected and each character has their own story and each of them are somehow connected with one another. 🌠 The plot - The story is about Alice who  kills Tony, who is working on a secret mission, on the other hand Arun and Prem living ter life hardly who once assault a women sexually by breaking into her house for stealing. Things change and mystery develops from their on. 🌠When Prem gets to know about his brother Arun being killed in an encounter, he couldn't hold his anger and wants to tak

  Transition and other stories 📖💯 🌟My rating - 4/5🌟 The book "Transition and other stories" by Kalam Babu brings out the emotions of us through his short stories. This book comprises of twelve amazing stories under mixed theme. Each of which can be related with our life. It talks about friendship, love, family, money, passion and all sought of emotions. The stories talks about some major elements of our country regarding a soldier's life, widow's struggles , feminism, farmers problems, strong message on LGBT (great attempt by Author) 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 12 stories, being a girl my favorite was " Taming of the shrewd "which talks about feminism. 🌠 The language is simple and lucid. 🌠 The character building is done effortlessly. 🌠The cover and title of the story goes well with the story.  I would recommend this book to everyone, especially the ones w