Through the book Adam, the author capture the nuances of human nature in a darker side – anger, jealousy, lust, greed, etc. He captures the actions and consequences of each emotion with ease. The stories are too close to a darker aspect of reality and invoke a strong response while reading them.
Review: A Venetian at the Mughal Court by Marco Moneta
Until this very point in my life I had absolutely no clue who Nicolò Manucci was. Let me introduce him to you in case this is a first for you too. He was a 14 year old who left his home, in Venice with ‘a passionate desire to see the world’. He was a teenage …
Review: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
“… my individuality had tormented me my whole life with its demand to be recognised.” Second Place is a rewriting of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s memoir “Lorenzo in Taos”, which talks about the time D. H. Lawrence came to stay with her in Taos, New Mexico. The story is about our protagonist M who invites L …
Review: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
This story is about a lot of things, but mostly idiots. I specifically am thinking about the idiot who happens to be the guy who was supposed to pack for me an undamaged book or maybe the idiot is the Amazon delivery guy who damaged the book during transportation. You see when this book was …
Review: Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Title: Animal Author: Lisa Taddeo Publisher: Bloomsbury India Publication date: 28 June 2021 Age group: Adult Genres: Thriller, Contemporary Fiction Synopsis: Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these . Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, …
Review: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.
Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.
And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.