Cocktail by Vikram Karve

Tonight I'm going to review a book which, though has a very senior person by age, is a debut book. It is written with the playfulness of a blissful child who simply seems to be enjoying indulging into nuances of romance.

This book must be read one story at a time. It isn't meant to be read whole and soul in a single date that you fix with this book.

Each story dives your spirit into the life of a salaried employ. Pen strokes seem to be using the wand(pen), gesturing motions as though conducting an orchestra of music.

Two other thoughts drove past as I gulped down the contents like a eager prey.

1. Characteristics of doggedness. The stories expose it with excessive use of meaningless phrases and expressions.

2. Slice of the same fruit. Each story is like a slice. So if u eat the next slice, it more or less taste the same.

The writer is brave to have published the book. Many people whom I know with similar personalities as him, have drowned themselves engaging themselves into diffidence totally limitless.

With that said I come to the end of this review.

Good Bye Girl By Sheeja Jose

I met the author of "Good Bye Girl" a few weeks back when she launched her second book called - 'Gone With The Bullet'. Her voice itself tremors a prophet of what one could expect in her books.

The book has a ravishing appeal attached to it which soaks the reader into pouts of gruesome circumstances which expresses the authors overindulgence and emphasis on extremism, with little space for reason to enter. As the story unfolds, one is showered with disgust and injustice that is rubbed into  each and every page of this book.

As the title suggests, this book is definitely not for children. It speaks of adultery in the most cruel and meanest context. If i were to count the pages splashed with abusive language and shitty content then it'll cover almost 95% of the book.

There are several places where the authors thoughts projected via the victimized girl, the protagonist, are downright faulty and therein the reader believes it is a fiction novel. Her soul is pored out in the novel where she declares how distrustful life is to her.
It is quite common to find a switch in  use of  "reality" with "torturous". The most interesting bit is the pivotal vital points which swing the story around are the weak links which do not connect well. Had those spaces been used properly the story might have a different face to it.

There is definitely no denying though that the book  is gripping. It possesses a lustrous pull to engulf the reader and I actually shelved the book away after I saw that "thing" reaching out to me, if I'd choose between self integrity and justice. I would opt for the integrity.

I have experienced the Power of Nature and its ways of serving justice. Sometimes, the arena of our thoughts get jailed within our own existence. Which is what the author got trapped into whilst working with her characters and the subject she deals with. Predictability spake as no transformations happened to the characters.

Her descriptions of homosexual relationships also falters many places. The author forgot her protagonist is fighting for her innocence to be proven and gets carried away in proving it do all the tests and trials she undergoes for the sake of her friend Anus' soul to rest in peace.

After reading this novel I wouldn't want to opt to go through reading her next. I wish  the author all the best in her voyage.

When one digs into a well, one has chosen to dig into a well at the outset on their own. When one digs into a drain one has chosen the path and what follows is only a revelation of what ones subconscious is dimly aware about. The story is linear meaning having a straightforward tale told written in one go, if one decides to layer it - there is effort involved there.