Hola, what’s up guys? What is cooking?
Let’s do a quick chit chat, we were pretty busy last month, Moni was busy with her Blogchatter a-z blogging like every year she does and I was searching some unique books to read and what I found? A chock full of emotions, explored new perspective to see age old epic characters, bring them into new light, mind-bending psychological thriller, historical true life journey that is written like heart wrenching novel all I will reveal to you.
May is unbearably hot in my city, scorching summer is literally cooking my brain, so what is your plan for this summer? Let’s beat the heat with various types of books that unveiled diversity of literature. I prefer thriller in summer, I received some psychological thriller from various publishing house and some came from United States, will tell you about those thrillers next month.
Now without further ado let’s see what I have for you in May.
A mind bending psychological thriller that is chilling, hunting story of grief, loss and equally saddening story of mental health. Absolutely loved this book.
This book will make you feel like you are alone in alluring beautiful Istanbul exploring nuances of a broken heart, love, loss which intertwined with family secrets, a story of heart-wrenching experience of a girl who just lost her mother.
The plot sets in beautiful Istanbul it’s a story of Eylul, a young lawyer within the turn of a night must move back to Istanbul from Germany, after her mother’s sudden drowning. Eylul’s mother was the beautiful successful founder of the prestigious law firm in Istanbul.
She came back to home little did she knows it’s a beginning of a psychological whirlwind.
After the funeral, one day in searching for mother’s love and touch she opens her mother’s locker and discovered a letter. A letter that turns her world upside down. Eylul started digging her mother’s past life and slowly towards a psychological whirlpool, or a blackhole of her mother’s mysterious mind.
Eylul firmly shut herself inside a distressed situation
She keeps digging into her mother’s past, a psychological thunderstorm is swallowing her while her present world, the real world is crumpling down.
The psychological depths of a daughter who lost her mother and nurturing loneliness portrayed so beautifully, the way that miserable mental situation depicted it’s so profound and so dark.
Definitely it is a powerful mind bending psychological novel we rarely get across. Heart breaking truths, pulse pounding mystery at every corner laced with seductive atmospheric description, this book is highly engrossing, I couldn’t put down before finishing it.
A heartfelt story brilliantly portrayed in the envelope of a psychological thriller, highly atmospheric, gripping narrative will stay with you.
Verdict: Highly recommended
Rating – 5/5
The Little book of Big Girl Thing – Akshara Ashok
Suddenly I came to know there is actually a comic book exists that talks about adulting so accurately. It talks about the things that we can’t share, can’t tell anyone. This book has all my heart
I am still in awe, it was so much chilling, the fun way to read about all the unsaid feelings that we throw under the sink. I was a comics lover but leave those days behind, this book truly resonates with me
Rating 5/5
“Nothing survives except the land. The land and the dead.” A radical fusion of intense feeling and spy thriller.
Beirut Station is a gripping spy story punctuated with intense life portraits. A finest blend of middle eastern collision, war torn Beirut life, chaos of madness spread by intelligence agencies for their own game and in between Analise with her secret mission, her job that placed her to the blink of life. Each page of this book filled with pulsating narrative yet it’s not your regular spy thriller.
The book is about Analise a Lebanese American girl recruited by the CIA appointed at Beirut. The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist leader.
The book is a setting of Lebanon, 2006 summer. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos. Analise has a deadline and a responsibility to kill Qassem, a high ranking Hezbollah leader. In this mission there’s no place for mistake, friendship, trust, loyalty and never expect sanity, it’s a war field she finds herself at the edge. A chunk of the book follows her inner turmoil, her suffocation and delusional moments created depths that will engulf you.
Double crossed by her own teammates she finds survival is merely a dream, war field isn’t new thing for her but this mission is becoming more reckless day by day.
This book gives us a brief picture of life in Iran, Iraq and middle eastern constitution. Women’s lives, the domestic violence which is defined as social norms, the stark contrast of women’s lives in western culture and middle eastern standard will give you chilling sharp pain, and nauseous fear.
I can’t tell you how many times I have closed the book and admired this intense writing. One thing I am sure his writing doesn’t feel like fiction rather it leaves an impression that makes me feel like he is giving me commentary from a live streaming, Paul isn’t spinning a plot, he is telling me what he is seeing at the time, the story telling is so spontaneous it leaves you wrapped within the book, whenever I touched the book I still feel that intensity.
The intensity of this book reminds me of the movie Munich.
Rating – 5/5
“While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister, Isabel.”
And thus, Inés de la Rota—the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet—begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves an unforgettable story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal. Isolated in a society that opposes her desires, Inés struggles with her identity as a mother, artist, sister, lover, and woman. Her choices are stark: accept her duty to her family or embark on a sensuous journey of self-discovery. Each path will cost her—or those she loves—something dear.
Mirroring the alchemical process of turning oranges into wine, Inés must create a new life from a bitter pith, pressing sweetness from life’s agonies as she struggles toward artistic freedom and feminine awakening.
It’s an heartwrenching story of a woman’s struggle for living in a catholic church dominated world where women were treated like less than a human, I feel they suggest women are born sinners. You will feel growing helpless and frustrated with every chapter of the book.
Early twentieth century and women’s life is incomplete without man, all they grow up only to find the suitor, the societal norms of the time always makes me feel irritated and the fact is, it is still a fact in some broad part of the world.
One thing that I feel, however Ines was going through a lot of struggle still at some pivotal time of the novel I felt Ines was like her sisters, she is also heartless, a bit selfish and she actually never thought about being independent like her sisters rather she always looking for a man’s shoulder to lean on which makes me off.
My rating 4/5
PS – It’s a true story, I found an author note in last page.
In first look, this book may appear like it’s another Mahabharat from another perspective but let me tell you it’s not another re-telling, it is not another perspective that we would go through to discuss Mahabharat once again, this book aims to discuss the most blamed and pitied character, the most underrated person Dhritarashtra. Yes, Dhritarashtra, who unwillingly played a key role in happening that devastating war.
Dhritarashtra, father of a hundred and one Kauravas and a blind king. We all know he loved his offspring so much that he refused to understand the depths of the incidents that were happening around him, he closed his ears like his eyes and didn’t want to listen to anyone, any words that created challenges against his son and his desire for power. But what really led to this massacre? What was raging inside his mind?
Author Deepanshu tried to dissect this character bit by bit, he gathered all the disoriented thoughts together and solved the puzzle by putting block by block, he collected each block precisely and put them in the manner of a book.
This book lets readers dive into Dhritarashtra’s life and allows us to know that character fully under the spotlight.
The way author carried out the book brilliantly unfurled a complex picture. Deepanshu navigates readers through the pages in an utterly engaging way. The psychological depth of this character was way more quizzical than we thought. This book started when Pandavas returned to Hastinapur after the funeral of Duryodhana. They all meet Dhritarashtra and Gandhaari and the plot begins as the form of conversation between Dhritarashtra and Krishna.
Rating – 4/5
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