Title: A Fool’s Circle
Author: Suzzane Seddon
Pages: 328

Kate is suffering from an abusive marriage with Alan. She is only living to save her eight-year-old daughter. She also has her “bestie” Jill Reynolds. The book is filled with twists and turns. It is filled with lies and betrayal. It is not an easy read. The character developments are great and writing makes it more powerful. The topic of domestic violence is amazingly described and how it makes one’s life worst. The cover says a lot about the book of seeing abuse from someone’s eyes. The book is highly emotional and how their daughter had to suffer. It is a great thrilling, emotional and gripping read!

5/5

 

Title: Jasmine Days
Author: Benyamin
Translator: Shanaz Habib
Pages: 264

Genre: Fiction

The narrator of the story who moves to an unnamed middle eastern country to live with her father and relatives. She worked in a radio station. Her world was happy with supporting friends, caring family until a revolution hits the country, She meets Ali from the radio station. Their friendship bonds over facebook through music. They attend music sessions ” String Walkers” together. The whole book is from the perspective of Sameera who is narrating her story to Javed. She is an “outsider” getting to know her perspective is beautiful, which adds more grace to the book. Ali living in the same country is a “second class”. The book has many characters which allow the reader to get different perspectives. Politics, inequality, religion, war are the major topics revolving in the story. I am not a huge fan of politics but the writing kept me gripped throughout the story. Writing style being effective is also easy to read. The characters are built well and how they lead to an important part of the story. The emotions and how the protagonist feels at a certain point of time are displayed beautifully. The ending could have been better is the only downside of the book for me. Overall, a great emotional read!

5/5

Title: You Begin Where I End

Author: Sarang Jairaj

Pages: 135

Genre: Fiction

The cover is quirky and beautiful. It shows different aspects of the protagonist’s life. In the whole Nafisa (the protagonist) is shown as an overweight girl and uses “panda” to describe herself but the girl on the cover isn’t shown like that. While reading this book, the cover turns disappointing and not accurate for the plot.

The book starts with Nafisa having a terrible breakup which is hard for her to deal with. She ends up with jealousy and starts using a dating app which ” rhymes with hinder”. The book is filled with texts like “rhymes with” which becomes quite irritating. Through the dating app, she meets Amar which resulted in love and lust. She then meets Kiaan through Quora and they become penpals. Then sudden death of her mother leads her into extreme sadness for her. After this, the plot becomes interesting when her mother’s diary entries are introduced and one is able to explore the love story of her mother. Through each chapter, Nafisa is trying to heal herself while Kiaan unknowingly helps her in this, which results in Nafisa getting attracted towards him. The writing style could have been better as the author is trying to convey something but if the writing style would have been enriched it could leave an impact on the reader. The latter part catches the attention when different circumstances are introduced. It describes different problems her mother had to deal with.

Overall, it was a disappointing read for me.

Thanks @thatinsonomiac.reader and @powerpuffwords for the review copy!

2/5

 

 

 

Title: Scattered Constellation
Author: Ankita Singh
Genre: Poetry
Pages:80

“Your stories enchant me,
Your poetry pulls me under your spell,
Never to rise again”
The book is a collection of 50 poems. It discusses love, heartbreak, friendship, family. It displayed emotions of the author beautifully. It is divided into three parts-
Springing Love
Scattered Heart
Clustered Hope
I loved how it portrayed different aspects of everything. The poems can tell how the author felt at a certain moment and the reader could relate to her thoughts. The poems are expressive. Some of my favorite poems were-“Hey Princess”, “Sisters for a Reason”,” Is This Love?” and ” Sisters”. Overall, it is a great and short read.

4/5

The cover is designed well. Looks very good. Title is appropriate. Though a debut book, the concept has been explained well.

The book is a simple love story of Two doctors who meet during their workplace & eventually fall in love. However, circumstances forces them apart. The girl gets married with someone else, life goes well until life has planned unexpected things for her & unfortunate events takes place when the old lover reappears & the lost love rekindles.

What happens next? To knowTo know, read the book.

The writing style of the author is good. The way the medical terms has been kept simple and also proper explanation provided wherever necessary makes it an easy job for the reader. Overall the books is a good one time read and a quick read since it is very small.

Language is simple. Narration is okay

3/5