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Book Title: God of the Sullied: The Sullied Warrior Duology (Book 1)
Author: Gaurav Sharma
Format: Kindle

Book Title:
The title of the book is ‘God of the Sullied: The Sullied Warrior Duology (Book 1)’ is attractive

Book Cover:
The cover of the book is a painting of a man covered in hood aiming the fire arrow with the Chakra in the background. The scene clearly depicts that the character is in the middle of the war.

Plot:
The protagonist of the story is Ekalavya, who belongs to the Ikshvaku dynasty and takes birth in a kingdom Rudraputra. He is forbidden to make friends and even he is not allowed to talk to people around him as they consider him as sullied. They will not involve him in any of the activities held in the village and look at him like a stranger or an outsider. At a certain point, the protagonist gets hit by the circumstances and stop caring about the people around him. Did he succeed in his mission irrespective of the situations and perils in his way?

Why people treat him as sullied? Why the scion of the famous dynasty will get ignored by everyone?

Well, read this intriguing and interesting book ‘God of the Sullied: The Sullied Warrior Duology (Book 1)’ by Gaurav Sharma.

What I like:
1. This is a story with mythological and fictional mystery with Indian philosophical touch.
2. The narration is gripping with a unique storyline.

What I didn’t like:
In particular, there are no negative points in the story, but some of the scenes are pretty much predictable and one can easily guess the story.

Narration:
The narration is done in an excellent way and the reader will finish the book at one go.

Language & Grammar:
A clear language with neat and uncomplicated grammar is used in the book

My Final Verdict:
The book filled all kinds of emotions and leave the reader with the thrill feeling and excitement. The book which is apt for all age groups and especially liked by the mythological story readers.

Book Title: 3/5
Book Cover:3/5
Plot: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Narration: 3/5
Language & Grammar: 3/5
Final Rating: 3/5

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BookReviewsCafe | Apr 27, 2023 |
Book Title: It All Happened In A School
Author: Gaurav Sharma
Format: Kindle

My Thoughts:
Of late, New-age Indian authors have written books on either myth-fiction or complete fiction with the romance genre as the backdrop. But, sometimes readers get to read books that fall under the Realistic Fiction category. Fortunately, I have happened to read such books in this year. But, again to be precise I haven't read a story like ' It all happened in a school '.

When it comes to realistic fiction, this genre portrays the world as it is. It contains no fantasy, no supernatural elements, and it usually depicts ordinary people going about the business of daily living, with all its joys, sorrow, successes, and failures. Generally in good realistic fiction, the characters are engaging, the dialogue is believable, the plot is fresh and original, the story setting is true to life, the problems faced by the characters are honestly portrayed.

In this book, Author Gaurav Sharma has done with the plot something similar that I have stated above. Because, when there is so much chaos in the society regarding religions, here in the story the school is run by two different belief systems which are hardcore fiction but the agenda of the management in the story is well described. Likewise, there are certain scenes where unruly kids and their behaviors with teachers are mentioned. This seems to be true because I have heard such incidents. Well, it is all from the home where a kid learns the initial steps. In this connection, the author also pinpoints the parents to be careful in their ways.

The book also addresses a teacher's struggle to cope up with the politics played when he or she stands up to the ethics and rules. It is not fair to say that every school has this but certainly, many incidents have proved that these politics in various ways, manners, and shapes do exist. With such virtues, the author introduces the readers with the character Soubhagya. He is loved by the students because of many reasons but becomes a squint in the eyes of the management. As a result, he starts facing tormenting troubles in the school. He unearths certain atrocities and crimes that have happened in the school and hence is under the radar of the top management. With revenge involved, the management often tortures Soubhagya in various ways. What are those incidents that Soubhagya brought into light is the crux of the story.

With the characters of Harjeet and Soubhagya, the book ' It All Happened In A School ' is a good gripping story. I noticed, the title says ' IN A SCHOOL ', which can be redirected to many such schools that have been facing these incidents.

What to expect from the story?
The book is a very good entertainer in terms of story, characters, and incidents mentioned. It is also a good mix of drama, emotions, grit with sufficient amounts of thrill. The book is a complicated story with an unseen ending and unexpected events.

Who can read?
The book is not for any student other than students in professional courses. There are mature elements in the story along with dirty politics that may pollute the minds of young people. The book is strictly for adults and parents because with their strong and balanced minds the story can be read and understood. The book also acts as a whistleblower to all those parents who sometimes fall for prestige, status, name, fame, and posh localities but fail to adhere to the basic ethics of teaching and developing young minds.

What is the storyline?
The story is set up in a private school in one of the biggest cities in India. The story from the initial pages gives a glimpse of the life in the school for the teachers and the students, their every day struggles and challenges to tackle the politics and games that play around them. This is a story about teachers learning to connect with students, fellow teachers, and administrators.

My take on the characters
The characters in the story are dynamic, strong, and sometimes hateful. There are some incidents mentioned that will stay on the nerve of the readers. The scope and strength of the characters which are both on the good and evil side of the human psyche are well sketched. Because of the real incidents perfectly combined with fiction, the characters look alive.

Not to forget to mention the character of Harjeet, the central character through whose eyes the readers read the story is extremely satisfying and interesting.

How good is the Author's writing style
This is Gaurav Sharma's fourth book and his previous works have all been well received by the readers. across. In this book, 'It All Happened In A School', with the help of Harjeet, the central character through whose eyes the readers do not only read the story but also visualize it. This kind of writing is witnessed if the story has strength and the characters portray real-time emotions.

The book also happens to give the readers a word of caution before taking any step regarding their kids' education. This of writing is of late not so common and thus I appreciate the author Gaurav Sharma for giving the society such a book. As the saying goes, Literature changes the face of society, this book surely does its job.

How entertaining is the book?
The book is based on certain real events that everyone has witnessed across the country on media. Because of this realistic fiction and many such incidents known, the book entertains and hooks the reader. The language and the narration are appealing. With dialogues and conversations that reflect the present times, the book stands as an entertainer.

Final Verdict
Reality and recent events are explained clearly

Rating:
4/5


… (mere)
 
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BookReviewsCafe | Apr 27, 2023 |
Note : A Review of this book is up in my website - Book And Ink

This book has been doing rounds in the internet for a while now. Frequent posts from the writer on Facebook and the interesting summary upped my interest in this book. Post the Nirbhaya rape in Delhi, the book market was flooded with lots of books centering this theme. This book came out a year after the horrible incident happened. Thus, needless to say, one would naturally expect the plot line to draw references or even have similarities to that case. To my complete surprise, the story was nothing similar at all.

Our protagonist, Akriti is raped. After the assault she has to deal with complicated legal procedures that question her sense of ethics and morality. The society begins to look upon her an outcast and taunts her family. The story is about her thought process of handling this gore abuse and reprisal sought by her. The writer, Gaurav Sharma has done his research quite well. The writer has described in detail the constitutional process followed post a rape incident. Apart from the process the story also elaborates Akriti’s coping mechanism which is not exactly unheard of, but is quite rare in practice.

The writing was too simple and had a lot of scope of restructuring. Portraying an abused female victim’s emotion and perfecting it is no simple task. The writer, in spite of being a male, has accomplished that tough feat. The story was a bit slow paced initially, but as the trial commenced, it picked up the much needed momentum. The climax on the other hand, seemed to be written in hurry! A bit of a twist there would have made the book more interesting. The whole ‘revenge’ part and other parts of the story where Akirit’s parents support her blindly seemed a bit utopian to me. If not for that disclaimer of sorts in the end, I wouldn’t really have accepted this school of thought.

MY SAY: An interesting, impressive and almost Utopian perspective on “rape-revenge”.


PLOT: 7/10

NARRATION: 7/10

CHARACTERISATION: 7/10

BOREDOM QUOTIENT: 2/10 (The lower the better)

OVERALL RATING: 7/10

… (mere)
 
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bookandink | Aug 19, 2015 |

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