BODHI'S

MAGICAL, MOVING & MESMERIZING  Book: The Blue Moon Day Author: Santosh Sivaraj Publisher: Invincible Publishers Publication date : 9 Jun 2018 Language: English Book length: 222 Blurb: Things were never the same for five ordinary individuals who got struck at cross roads and there was no way they can run back. They had no other choice but to take a plunge into their deepest fear and leave the rest to destiny. Their characters was tested out of their comfort zone and it witnessed abstruse results; a PhD scholar fights to win a pizza making contest and a tennis prodigy running for his life in a war torn, bloodied Island. Extreme circumstances and their consequences made these ordinary individuals extraordinary . Was the test imposed on them by someone? Or did they invite it on themselves. The Blue Moon Day is that Once in a Blue Moon day story which questions an individual's priorities, ridicules the worldly routines and finally red...

A Cosmic Play!  BOOK: EVOLV AUTHOR: RYAN SEQUEIRA PUBLISHER: THE WHITE PLACE PUBLICATION YEAR: 2017 BLURB: EL leaves his mundane life in search of the ultimate truth, where the kid is introduces to mantras, yantras, tantra and sacred herbs.  Meanwhile, a group of elite scientists have discovered how humans are being systematically dumbed down and manipulated to think only about hoarding material possessions and their desires.  As their fates confluence in an explosion of epic proportions, these individuals might just be decoding pre-Vedic secrets and a Tantric text that might help evolve humanity into the next cycle of beings.  Unable to make it in the Kali Yuga, Lord Krishna encrypts codes so that the humans can evoke one of the most ancient Gods. EVOLV, the first psycho-spiritual novel that uncovers complexities of the mind and decrypts complex Vedic codes that will distort your perception of reality and teleport you into a thrilling psychedel...

Honest attempt but disappointing outcome Book: THE LEADER Author: N.S. Ravi Publisher: Author Paradise Genre: Fiction Publication date: 9 Apr 2018 Blurb: The Leader. A fiction inspired by the famous ‘Textile Strike of 1982’in Bombay. The city with a population of five million practically lost a whole industry and more than 70 factories. 250 thousand families lose employment and livelihood of 1 Million or 2 percent of city’s population got affected. Review: So 'The Leader' is a fiction, set in the Bombay during the 'Textile Strike of 1982'. As my reviews are always spoiler free, so will not reveal anything from the plot.  The author chose a very good subject for his 5th book. As we know very little (never tried to know!) about that incident, it was a great decision to write about this. And a fiction based on a true account is always attractive.  The author started it well by introducing the characters. The introductions were brief and we'll writte...

A magical jar with humour,emotion ,miracle and only magic.  An epic saga of a young boy with an ancient soul.  BOOK: THE 1000 YEAR OLD BOY AUTHOR: ROSS WELFORD Publisher: HarperCollins Publication date : 30 Jan 2018 Language: ENGLISH GENRE: Young Adult/Fiction Book length: 400 Blurb: There are stories about people who want to live forever. This is not one of those stories. This is a story about someone who wants to stop. Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy – except he’s 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no one believes him. So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance and a different way to live.  Which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die. REVIEW: For it's astonishing blurb, unique concept and beautiful cover, I picked the book. I ...

Decent but far from perfect  Book: LET YOU BE MY PUPPET ONCE Author: PREETIKA MEHRA Publisher: Notion Press, Inc. Publication date: 21 Apr 2018 Language: English Book length: 326 Blurb: Losing their faith in the System, a group of MNC-employed youngsters decide to take revenge on some politicians and businessmen after having suffered at their hands. Their master plan also exposes the connections of the powerful with the rich, of the mafia with politicians and of those who exploited the poor. All this leads to a war. A war that had never happened. The Chief of Intelligence had never dealt with such brilliant people who were entangling him in multiple versions of events. After a while, he is unable to differentiate between the real and planted evidence. The clock is ticking. The media is on adrenaline. The Chief is faced with several questions. How did it all happen? Will he be able to solve the case? Can he get the accused politicians acquitted? Sho...

A glittering masterpiece & a must read for various reasons. BOOK: ASCENDANCE AUTHOR: SADHNA SHANKER Publisher: Rupa Publications India Publication date : 20 Apr 2018 Language: English Book length: 327 BUY:  AMAZON IN Blurb: The location is a planet in outer space inhabited by antagonistic species.  The night Seeni died, the fault line reappeared. The existing equilibrium between men and women, the antagonistic species that inhabit Elone began to crumble. If a clash happens, how long would it last? What would remain? Who? How many? Were they heading for a time like the last days on Earth?  As each side regroups along the Fence, Maya, a woman’s consciousness from twenty-third century Earth, reveals the past intertwined existence of men and women. Would knowledge of their shared past change the course for the future?  Delving into ideas of divergence, immortality and consequent new social constructs, Ascendance is set in a world t...

An astonishing scientific saga with a disguise of an edgy spy thriller    BOOK: THE LAST ATTRACTOR OF CHAOS AUTHOR: ABHINAV SINGH Publisher: NOTIONPRESS Language: English Book length: 332 BLURB: Trying to protect his pregnant wife, scientist Ashwin Rathore gets killed - unexpectedly and unwantedly. A deadly force lurks in the murk that wants her too, but why? Is it because she works for and with the military and Intelligence teams in the country, or is it because she knows something that no one else does? REVIEW: So basically the book is a spy thriller with a touch of some scientific theories. We can divide the whole novel into two parts, one is the spy story, the body of the novel and other one is the afterlife phenomenon and scientific theories, the soul of it.  In one word, the later part was just mind-blowing and amazing. The story deals up with some interesting physics theories as particle physics, quantum enigma, theory of chaos or Entrop...