The Dwan At Dusk

 By 

Sandeep Nayyar

Genre

I happen to follow to more authors, Amish Tripathi and Ashwin Sanghi who write in a similar genre. So, when I started reading the book, I already started comparing it with their work and thus held high expectations from it.

Does is stand upon my expectations? Let's see.

Storyline

The events of the book took place during the post-vedic era, during the reign of Yaduvanshis and Raghuvanshis. The story follows the life of Damodar, Shatavari, Neel, Dhananjay, Vaishali, Amodini and many others. 

Basically, it became difficult for me to keep up with the book as I am bad with names, and have to go back and forth a large number of times.

The story is a simple historical fiction portraying love, betrayal, friendship, discrimination, courage,  etc. It also features wars, kings, loyalty, lust and even a secret weapon. 

Apart from all this elements. one other thing that is peculiar about the book is the character building. All the character, and there are many of them, are very compelling and you feel that you really know them. 

Also, the narration, and the language author  used were a bit different from the contemporary context, which did justice to the story.

The Ending

The end was too good to be interesting. It was a novel version of a fairy tale towards the end. Although it wasn't disappointing, it could've been better.

In A Nutshell

I enjoyed the book and will give three and a half stars. Although, I never read book in this genre, except the ones I mentioned earlier,

I was glued to this one. I assure it as a worthy read even for those who aren't into historical fiction. 

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The Coffee And The Cola

 By 

Kapil Muzumdar

The author, kapil Muzumdar, claims to be fascinated by human behavior, especially, by the complexity of emotions in women.

The synopsis of the  book reminded me of one such Indian author, who specialized in writing about the fairer gender, in his words. Yes, I am talking about Khushwant Singh, who is very well known for his masterpiece, Train To Pakistan. 

So, do we have another Khushwant Singh in making? Let's see.

Storyline

The story follows life of Rahul, who falls in love with two Women. First is of the Coffee type and other of the Cola type. 

He first meets the Coffee girl in a coffee shop after meeting her online on a matrimony site. They like each other, get along and eventually fall in love. When she moves to Singapore for six months against his wish, some bitterness is added in their relationship. 

During this time Rahul meets another girl, who is Cola type, i .e she is a modern, hot and sexy. Unlike the coffee girl, she is very much open to physical intimacy before marriage. A thing that attracted Rahul. 

At this point of time I anticipated the story to be a predictable one, where Rahul will eventually realize with whom he is in love with and they will live happily ever after, like they do in all the shitty stories. But he ending wasn't bad. The author ended the book in a very good fashion, not disappointing his readers. 

Narration

Narration was the flaw I found in the book. The author has a character dedicated to himself, where he as the protagonist's confident. A person who got everything correct, who was wise and what not. 

The impression created by this wasn't effective and rather made the author seem vain. Maybe the author could improvise this in his next project.

In A Nutshell

I would give three and a half stars to the book, mostly because it was a fresh read and wasn't much stereotypical as far as the story is concerned.


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