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India’s first gay Olympic gold is not the news headline Saaransh wanted to make. Losing his family and his job is hard. But badminton? That’s not something he will give up. Not even for Brendon. Unless he finds the courage to keep them both.

‘SHY’ is a ~77,000-word contemporary romance novel with gay protagonists that will appeal to the LGBTQ community and romance readers in the YA and NA segment.

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Saaransh’s greatest love is badminton. His dream is to win an Olympic Gold for India. But he harbors another secret desire. Live as his true gay self. He can’t exactly come out and embrace his reality in a country that still considers non-heterosexual relationships as unnatural and illegal. Not if he wants to win that precious yellow medal.

London Olympics, 2012, presents him with a perfect opportunity to achieve both his dreams. While the world is chasing the athletes and stars of more popular sports, Saaransh uses his anonymity to live the gay life for one night. However, he did not count on meeting Brendon, the burly Australian proud gay rugby star.

Romance and love are complicated when you are trying to keep the closet closed and the person prancing around in your dreams outs you to the world.

You lose your family, job, your dignity, and because of cowardice, the only chance at happiness.

Can Saaransh become the person he should be? A sports star who can lead the way for LGBTQ rights in India. World no. 1 who can help provide visibility to the queer community in India? Most of all, will Saaransh become strong enough to confront the world and find a way to Brendon.

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About the Author

Author Ashish Rastogi

Ashish (he/him) is a physician and medical research professional from India. He has self-published a thriller, ‘The Broken Code’ in 2018 and a sports rom-com, ‘All the Lines to Cross’ in 2020. When Ashish is not busy managing his medical research company, he writes poems, and stories and dabbles in art.

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Have you ever read the books which are based in future time period. Like which predicts what is going to happen in the upcoming years. If yes, the you might find this post really interesting. But if not, then it is totally fine. And you can give a try to this post, for the reading taste.

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Book Title: 2034

Author Name: Bruno Beaches

Format: Kindle, Paperback

Book Review by Monika

In the narration of the story, there is another narrator. Samantha - the Queen of storytelling, who is in her mid 40s. She was a teacher in her young days. Almost the whole society, the people who are living there with almost 10 years now trust on each other because of the shared hardship, and much more. It is the evening time & she is going to tell a story to the kids. As parents of these kids believe in the integrity of Samantha.

This story is set in the future time period and it is about the 2034. 2034 means year 2034, 12 years ahead of 2022. Including the description of mid years. Like 2023, 2024, up to 2034. Along with it, it is description of what happened in the quarantine, situations of human & society, unwanted chemical effects, the sudden changes it brought, etc.

This story is full of suspense, mystery and some unbelievable worries, describing about how artificial food is now a strong need, why it is important to maintain the social distance, there are driverless vehicles, destruction, and the human life is now dependent on the chemicals to save them themselves from chemicals. They are now in a cage, but they have the freedom to do what ever they want inside it. What an irony life plays. Is not it?

Secure zones are created, so that people can save their lives. No additional help of extra & important facilities is there. People are trying to build other communities in the woods and wild, and much more is there.

Basically, story of this book revolves around the destruction, how natural life is adversely affected, how the life of several human beings is in the danger.

What I like: I appreciate the efforts of the Author for the narration style, for imagination, and how wonderfully he crafted the story of destruction in 2034.

Triggered Emotions: I would not like to say anything about story plot, because deep involvement in it can affect someone badly. Like, if you are already depressed or could not stand up with the stories of vast destruction, I can not recommend you this. But this does not mean that you can not read it. Thanks for understanding!

Recommended: If you like thriller, mystery related to destruction, you can go for it.

If you love it, feel free to share it with those who love to read mystery & thriller stories. Thank you for stopping by! Let me know something interesting you have found in this blog post, in the comments.

Monika

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Book Title: The Curse of Kukkutarma

Author: Prateep Roy

Genre: Science fiction + Mythology

Book Review

The story starts with - punishing the students of class 10th, by a harsh nature teacher. The reason behind punishment is - Someone split the ink on Shirt of a simple & humble teacher. But such hard punishment was prohibited in the school.

The Principal of school, was passing nearby, and he Observed the teacher punishing the Kid. He asked him to stop it.

Later, Principal Mr. Brown asked the little boy about his introduction. He introduced himself as Opamanyu Sen. And his mother called him Opu with Love. He is from 6th standard, but he was in the class 10th, as he was aware about the stuff which teachers were teaching in 6th standard.

When he visited to his home, her mother Observed her hand was badly hurt, and she asked him about the reasons. His father Mr. Dwarkanath was trustee of that school. And he said to stop funding the school.

Suddenly, Mr. Father Brown visited to their home and informed his Dad that, they have suspended that teacher for such Karma. Along with it, he told his parents that their son is Prodigy. He has extraordinary skills. His mind is sharp and ahead of the children of his age.

The discussion goes on, and he asked them to reflect over his studies and take suggestions from Jagdish Chandra Bose (1st Indian Scientist, who got Patent).

Later, he was sent to London for his education. His father has now high expectations like miracles from his son, as everyone in the surrounding was saying he is brilliant & extraordinary.

During that year, World War 1 broken out, and it effected a lot of things.

Though, Opu met Isla and his brother, and tried to execute his ideas and plans with them. This is how, they were able to start the preparation of Atityan (a project for spacecraft model). And all 3 were lost in the project deeply.

This book has a blend of history, mythology, science fiction; hand in hand. The story plot is based in the 1900s and revolves around the prodigy kid Opu and his brilliance about interest in Time traveling.

His dream of inventing a time machine, which can help him to travel back in the past, and met the Bhisma of Mahabharata, and why he died, even when he was blessed by boon.

This led him to take his ideas and interest seriously.

My take on Narration:

The Narration could have been more smooth, if a lot of details (explanation of ancient history details) could have been provided in the end, instead of starting and in mid of chapters.

Along, with it, as the book is fiction, so there is not a greater role of research done by Author. Though it's doing great on research based part.

What I Like: I like the theme line & blend of history and mythology, along with the prodigy of Opu.

Recommended: If you like books based on science fiction + Mythology, you may also like this one.

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Love can make someone vulnerable, & stronger beyond limits. It can help to heal. Loving wrong people can even break & destroy people!

Book Name: Against time & destiny! Love Betrayal Revenge!

Author Name: Alka Dimri Saklani

Pages: 280+

Book Review

This story breaks with the conversation of Pihu & Rhimjhim (her cow) in the hills & forests. Pihu and Samarth are the main characters of the story.

Pihu is a 22 year old girl, who lost touch with her Baba (father). Eight years ago, he said unfinished goodbye to them. He used to talk on phone calls on weekends with his family, it was limited to once in month & then disappeared in the last 6 years. Since then Pihu wander in the green lands with her Rhimjhim. She take her to several places to explore the world, Adventure & dangers.

Pihu and her family were shocked to hear that She is announced as the nominee of a 50 lakh INR property of her father. And Samarth visited here for project purpose.

In the journey of verifying documents, they are facing & observing bad side of each other for the wrong reasons.

Pihu is hard working but she is from poor background. It reminds Samarth about his childhood days, which connects them. He likes the nurturing quality in her.

Samarth is Rich boy, he does not know how to have empathy or nurture. Instead, he loves to break.

He convinced Pihu that he will help her to search her disappeared father. She ended up bbserving atleast something good in him.

The story is trying to tie a knot of 2 people who are totally opposite.

She has fallen in love, shared her world with him. Unfortunately, something happened! Probably every girl is afraid of.

She is amazed to see another side of Samarth. He was despair, he was broken because of his past life & wounds.

She was helping him to heal slowly. He was breaking her in return. He was shattering her faith, love, & eventually their relationship.

One day, they were separated by destiny. She was feeling betrayed! The man she was trying to love broken her. Her heart is now full of hate.

What happened that night?

What is the climax of the story?

Are they seeking revenge or they will be able to mend their relationship again?

You can read the book to know more about the story and what happened next!

What I like:

The narration is smooth. It is based on some ground facts related to culture of Indian families and the difference of rich & poor backgrounds. Along with it, the theme of the story is connected well and the flow has given a feel of the movie running in mind.

Recommended: Though I am a girl who has never fallen in love. I believe more about reality & real life. And I do not want to niche it down to limited people, just because of the point that I have never experienced such incidences. Though I can not recommend it to the hopeless romantic people or who are too crazy or possessive about love.

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Mumbai is a land of orphans, everyone is alone & on his own over there.

Book Title: Vodka Vagina Vanity: Tales of the absurd.

Author: Vikram Dhawan

Pages: 300+

Genre: Suspense, Young adult fiction

Sherry is the main character, who seeks help from four rich men, but they refuse to help her out and humiliate her.

Book Review

This story breaks out with the announcement of the Squillionaire that the protagonist is writing an autobiography.

The 4 richest men are trying to help themselves, sitting in 4 different corners because of ego (Male ego), instead of sitting nearby.

The main character has written something to uncover the truth & Lustful nature of these rich rich man. She wanted to bring them down. Her ghostwriter who wrote the manuscript suggested her to not publish it as he was trying to tell some stories must Never be told.

Beautiful and remarkable Insights from story!

Their egos and persona coming in the way of sitting too close to each other.

You can violate a woman between the thighs or you can violate her between the ears, Ring worm excels in the latter.

She is clever, battle hardened and fearless, and lest we forget her confluence of cash and connections.

Public memory is short these days. They will read her book, entertain themselves, and move on to the next circus.

Gentlemen! She has declared war on us! Make no mistake; she wants to bring us down. This could not have come at any worse time.

How fearful are the shadows of night, Ask those who do not have homes to go to.

Some stories must never be told. There is a reason why actresses and starlets do not write all revealing biographies.

My take!

The story is little dragged with lots of conversations between multiple characters with strange names. More than justice and bringing true faces in front of public, the language has lots of adult content.

I have seriously skipped some pages, because the language & context was too much! It shows how Lustful human beings & high profile people can be who have lots of money.

Also, ebook formatting is also not so good. It is creating confusion in few paragraphs.

People usually say, money is King, it solve lots of problems & bring happiness. But I feel, too much money (not talking about money earned by hard work & struggle in genuine manners) creates multiple options & doors for crime & animal side of Man.

Recommended: For age 21 and above.

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Four men wanted to kill Avni, the Queen, for 4 different purposes with 4 different plans.

Book Review

This book is a blend of Mythology, Thriller & crime fiction history timeline with suspense.

It starts with a breathlessness & fainting girl who is struggling to reach out to the breath inhaler.

It is moving forward with the investigation by an Author & officer. They are trying to take it fast forwardly. Later involvement of NWC organization staff, especially Naina changes its direction. Naina scared them to solve it quickly.

Avni the Queen of Goner (a region in Rajasthan); died in mysterious way in a room of Kuldevi temple. She was killed on the first night of becoming Queen of Goner & owner of Kuldevi temple.

But, why & how?

So, people who are investigating, are trying their best to investigate helpers and people who were connected with her, property & Kuldevi temple. They came to know about a secret, which people were hiding & trying to protect, which was also a reason of several life losses.

They found clues, connections, solve it & still it was unresolved till last.

What a surprising story!

There are so many characters, but still elaborated nicely. It is written with nice mystery, surprise & unpredictable plots. The narration is a little difficult to understand & correlate.

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Centuries have passed, & now it is tough to believe, but the rumor back then was that the belongings which were moved also consisted of some secret, which the royal family was protecting.

Kids born on Friday are extroverts by nature. They love meeting people, they love going out and they really excel if they work or study in less clustered places. What do you think?

It is a long story.

They started dating soon after.

They do have a positive vibe around them.

They are different but work so well together.

I always believe that sometimes it would take long, but it is better to wait than pick the wrong one.

People don't exactly follow what doctors tell them; they still trust their knowledge and God's will.

And what if I say that 90% of the deaths are of female infants?

This is the town of Kuldevi, Shakti, who blesses parents with male babies.

Your faith to “her royalty” means nothing if you can't help her even after her demise, he said.

What puzzle was she trying to solve?

I don't get it.

The decor in her room doesn't fit with the theme of the haveli. This is different.

People stick to their beliefs more strongly than their moral code. But I see you happy, which means you succeeded.

It is really a surprising story. If you have ever watched CID TV show, it might be easy to relate.

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Book: The Tenth Riddle

Author: Sapan Saxena

Genre: Fiction, Mythology, Suspense, Thriller

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