Book Review #3: The Monsoon Murders by Karan Parmanandka

Book name: The Monsoon Murders
Author: Karan Parmanandka
Published by: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Pages: 192
Genre: Crime Fiction, Murder Mystery

Review:
The Monsoon Murders is a murder mystery fiction set in a contemporary Mumbai and which is inspired from some real life cases, and is the debut novel of Karan Parmanandka.
The cover, as attached with this post, is interesting at first sight, and once the reader starts reading it, the cover makes perfect sense.
The blurb intrigues as equally as the cover. Although not at first sight, it has a gradual pull at us.
Now, the story.
The story seems a mess at the beginning. There are a lot of loose ends. But I assure you, you know there are twists coming along, but you'll be blown when they come and you'll be like, "Holy Mother of God, I didn't see that coming!" Of course, your swearing will be different from mine.
I'll give out a minor spoiler here as to where the story picks up pace. It's not until almost halfway through and you feel like giving up due to the slow pace that a major twist makes its way to you and you'll be, "Okay, whoa!"

On a side note, there are some typos at a few points (quotation marks where the prose wasn't a dialogue). But those can be overlooked given their low frequency.

Rating:
Cover - 3.8/5
Blurb - 3.5/5
Premise - 4.2/5
Story - 4.1/5

Overall rating - 4.3/5

Final verdict:
It's a must read for readers and book-nerds alike who love murder mysteries by Indian authors.

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Book Review #2: PANORAMA by Shilpi Chaklanobis

Book name: PANORAMA - A Collection of Short Stories
Author: Shilpi Chaklanobis
Published by: Notionpress
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary
Pages: 134

Review:

First of all, congratulations to the author on a smashing debut!

Now, the pointers.

Positives:
1. Every story in the book is unique and conveys a message.
2. The prose, the characters, their stories and back stories have been penned beautifully.
3. The blurb is appealing, so is the cover and then typeset.

Negatives:
1.  The consistency is a point at which the book somewhat falters. The messages are strong in each story, no doubt, but it's the presentation consistency where it fails.
2. As stated in point 1, the presentation is consistent from story #1 till #9, which starts to falter from #10 and doesn't gain momentum until the last two stories of this collection.
3. Apart from that, I found some punctuation errors at a few places and some indenting errors. But these can be overlooked because the core strength of the book lies in its prose.

Hence, overall it's a wonderful read for the normal readers and experienced ones, alike.

Ratings:
Blurb - 4/5
Premise(s) - 4/5
Cover - 3.5/5
Presentation - 3.8/5

Overall rating - 4/5

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Book Review #1: Superwomen by Prachi Garg

Review-

"Super Women" by Prachi Garg mainly focuses on the inspirations and the motivations of the female entrepreneurs. It contains stories of amazing women. 

Mrs Prachi Garg has done a fabulous job in writing down these twenty stories of twenty startups which were started by women. Not just writing we can see how phenomenally research work for this is done.

MERITS:

1. Language is easy but writing style has made the words more beautiful.
2. Dedication to the success of the women in the stories.
3. Breaks the stereotype that a woman is in any way lesser than a man.

The title of the book catches the reader’s attention and every woman would pick the book just to know the reason why the book has been titled as Super Women.

I would to rate this book 5/5

Waiting for her next book coming by the end of December. 

 http://www.amazon.in/Super-Women-Prachi-Garg/dp/9382665633

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