Fighting for Tara is a book filled with love, restrictions and odds that women face each day. Hansa is a child bride and a mother at 13, her journey starts when she decides to save her daughter Tara and herself in the process. This book is an emotional journey of a thirteen-year-old girl and the …
Gudiya and Krishna two girls – one a widow, the other a child bride trying to make their way in a bigoted, biased world. A journey fraught with obstacles and a battle that seems lost even before it has begun. Bubble Wrap – the title had intrigued me the most as well as the blurb …
Starving Hearts is a historical romance and it grows on you as you fall for the charming Annette and gracious Peter. Smooth, serious, full of love, faith, and a kaleidoscope of emotions is what Starving Hearts is all about. We have the alluring and very vocal Annette as the heroine. Peter is the hero, savior …
Secretly Your’s is about young love, strange happenings along with a bit of murderous mayhem and the novel manages to engross the reader. It is a young adult romance about a boy Sahil and his life that seems to be going nowhere. In walks Anya, beautiful, smart and full of mystery. That she is keeping …
Anya’s Lyric is the journey of a girl who the world sees as a misfit but never hesitates to exploit for their benefit. This book is like a collection of stories but each is linked to the next as a part of Anya’s life. The author has done a commendable job of writing the book …
The moment I had read the book blurb of A Beauty Refined, I was hooked. A book that promised love, beauty, mystery and intrigue along with a historical romance begged to be read. I was not disappointed; the book is well written, full of surprises and twists that keep me awake. The times, culture, mannerisms, …
I have read Laxmi’s work earlier and love the edgy crispness to her writing. Feral is the story of Maya who is in search for herself and her identity. She is strong, brave, conflicted, feminine yet determined. Bit by bit she tries to uncover her reality and her destination. She senses that she is different …
………………………………………………….. A memoir full of nostalgia that immediately transported me the idyllic, carefree yet busy days of our summer vacations. Visiting cousins, exploring the neighbourhood, hours spent relaxing under shady trees, playing in the parks and just being kids. In the words of the author, we see what the book really wishes to convey. …
A story of two broken, damaged souls who are trying to find themselves, searching for acceptance and love as well. That they find each other is itself a miracle and how they find each other is the fun part – the part where I could not keep the book down. How the two meet is …
An Autograph For Anjali follows the journey of Anjali a stay at home lady who also happens to be a wife of a very rich guy. She wants for nothing but still searches to fill her emptiness. The book is a commentary on the ‘empty- nest syndrome’ parents especially mothers face when grown-up kids leave …
Finding Juliet is a young man’s quest for his love, for the girl who would complete him, and understand him. That the girl is right there and how we sometimes need to look inward before we can really see who we are and find our love and ourselves is the twist in the tale. A …
Love surprises us when we least expect it and it has been the most endearing trait of love. This book, #TSOL ‘That Same Old Love’ celebrates love and shares how the path is littered with consequences. With just a ‘good time’ in mind Mahi and Samrat decide to be consenting adults and then love or …
Encounters – Someone’s Always Waiting has five stories and when you finish the last one you want more, much more than what the author has shared. It is like a peek into the beautiful garden and you have just had a glimpse. Sumana writes and lays it all out for the reader to enjoy. The …
More Than Just Desire is a book that reiterates the fact that marriage or love needs a lot of work – hard work. It entails understanding, empathy and compromise especially when it involves two damaged and abused people. Writing a romance for perfect characters is easy but to write and justify love for a flawed …
These Lines of Mehendi is a novella with a lot of spunk and substance. I have read Sumeetha’s earlier novel, The Perfect Groom and find that her stories always have a message, a depth and move you with not just the romance but relevance as well. The story is of second chances and the fear …