The story unfolds so fast that I was eagerly waiting for the emails to arrive. Bernadette expresses herself with the emails and I got a peek into her struggle to be a good mother more than the woman she was. The celebrated architect forgotten in the effort to be a mom.
The book started out with her struggle of a mom to avoid confrontation with other parents and turned into race to evade the mental asylum.
Maxine’s Happy Trails: A Truck Story is the cutest picturebook for kids who love vehicles, especially trucks. It is not just about the truck but also what the truck is doing, where it is going, it’s driver, and it’s trip. It is a ‘wheels on the bus’ variant with a trucker slant book according to …
Love Soldiers On!! The Loyal Heart is another sweet, love-filled story of a second-chance romance. This is the first book from Shelley that I read which was not an Amish Love Story. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Loyal Heart was a book that transported me to an era bygone. A young …
NO ESCAPE FROM LOVE is a sweet, second chance romance. Love finds the most interesting places to visit and this book is no different. I had read this book last year but the review was in limbo. Here it is now, I recommend you pick this book. It is the right romance to read this winter …
This book, Someone Exactly Like You, has been with me for a while. I even met the author Esha Pandey in a cool writer-reviewer meetup and was so impressed. I was reading this book in July and then got sidetracked. She has quite a few books published under her name and this was her first …
STORIES OF US The Common Man Changing Perceptions by Bobby Sachdeva are a collection of incidents and events in the lives of the common man, the family next door or the poor kid you see on the footpath. These stories unearth the simple truths of life and try to find kindness, humanity, love and integrity …
First love! Who can forget it, few are lucky to find their love yet many just yearn. Homecoming is a second chance romance and almost a medical romance. Homecoming is the love story of Krish and Sanaya as they fall in love at first sight. It is the story of young love and quick tempers. …
Supercop of Aryavrat is none other than Krishna, the saviour and god himself. This book tells his story through his eyes. The book begins on the note when everything is ending. The Yadav clan is scattered, the Mahabharata war is over and Krishna is ruminating on his life and times. As his own brother, Balram’s …
Do we really know our loved ones? Are ever really sure that the face we see each day, cherish, nurture and love each day is not a facade? Damyanti shatters a lot of assumptions in her book You Beneath Your Skin. You Beneath Your Skin is not just a thriller trying to figure out the …
The Marriage Predicament is a story that is true not just for royalty but across all strata of our society. I loved this book for its topic, a hard-hitting truth in our society, its fast pace and the perfect well-matched main characters. The royal customs, the traditions to be followed, the situation where the princess …
A Morsel of Different Shades is the story of Sumitra, a teacher and her experiences across her career. It reads like a memoir with stories and incidents, characters and their anecdotes making it an interesting read. The book is a relaxing read but the various stories and characters delight the reader. It’s like a look …
Beast is a book about Saimhas-neither lions nor humans who are living with us but we mere humans are not aware. A different paranormal fiction that was so well etched that it felt almost real. The run, the thirst, the aggression and the fight of the Saimhas literally jumped off the pages. Paranormal is not …
The stories in the book, From An-other Land: Making Home in the Land of Dreams, are about the American Indians or the NRI’s who wished for the ‘Great American Dream’. Whether they achieved it or not, found their perfect life abroad or not is left expertly to the reader to discern. The author has a …
Where Will Man Take Us is a peek into the past and future of technology and Artificial Intelligence. The book is a crash course into the growth and invasiveness of tech into our lives. Right now we can’t imagine our lives without our gadgets, smart watches, and Alexia but at what cost? Technology is our …
Lolita is an actress, a diva, a siren, a companion, a woman— all these and much more. We just cannot slot her in any one box since she is an actress who is not just talented but successful, beautiful and sexy. For how long will women have to apologise for being good-looking, talented, ambitious and …
The Last Avatar – Age of Kalki is a mytho-science-fiction that is the first part of a trilogy. It tells the story of Kalki who is supposed to come on this earth and end the evil times or the Kalyug. That it will need human help is obvious and already there is a mysterious hero …
