Review - The Belated Bachelor Party by Ravinder Singh

Title: The Belated Bachelor Party

Author: Ravinder Singh

Publisher:  HarperCollins India

Pages: 292

Blurb: It's been twelve years since Happy, MP, Raamji and Ravin graduated. Well into their married lives, they realize that none of them had a bachelor party before their weddings. But it's never too late to set things right. They go about planning their belated bachelor party - a Euro trip which, well, ends up becoming the trip of their lifetime. Picture this: It's the middle of the night. The four friends wait to be strip-searched by the border police. They are stuck in the no-man's land between Croatia and Slovenia, without valid visas, but with banned party drugs and a rifle cartridge ... Welcome to one hell of a reunion! Bestselling author Ravinder Singh returns with his friends in a hilarious, moving story of friendship and adventure.

The Belated Bachelor Party by Ravinder Singh

Review:

Story of four friends Ravinder, Amardeep, Manpreet, Harprit.

10 Years back when they met on their first reunion they talked about their marriage, and now after getting married everyone realised that non of them had the fun of the bachelor party, and planned for the reunion in Europe and named it as 'Belated Bachelor Party'.

I laughed like an idiot while reading this book and enjoyed reading this book, there are many moments presents in this book which too funny. 

The moment where Ravinder and Amardeep visited the Czech Republic Embasy situated in Delhi and how they lied to the lady officer to get their visa easily and early, and the reason they describe to the officer to get their visa was too funny they, and they used the same reason to get on the flight when their flight got cancelled, and how they had sweet fight to travel in business class and they tossed the coin to decide.

There are many more funny moments present in this book after they met in Prague, and how They are stuck in the no-man's land between Croatia and Slovenia, without valid visas, but with banned party drugs and a rifle cartridges.

This book gives you the best example of friendship, and friends are very important in life, and you can't live without abusing those lovely friends 😂😂.

P.s. I can't digest my food without abusing my friends 😅 😂. .

Thank you, HarperCollins India for the review copy.

Ratings

Cover: 4.5/5

Blurb: 4.5/5

Plot: 4.5/5

Overall: 4.5/5

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About the Author: 

Ravinder Singh

Ravinder Singh is the bestselling author of six novels and two crowd-sourced anthologies. His books have sold over 3.5 million copies to date. After having spent most of his life in Burla, a very small town in western Odisha, Ravinder is currently based in New Delhi. He has an MBA from the Indian School of Business. His eight-year-long IT career started with Infosys and ended in Microsoft, where he worked as a senior programme manager before deciding to pursue writing full-time. Ravinder has also founded and runs a publishing venture called Black Ink (www.BlackInkBooks.in), where he publishes and mentors debut authors. Beyond his love for words, Ravinder is also fitness freak. You can reach out to him on his Instagram handle @ThisIsRavinder or write to him at itoohadalovestory@gmail.com

Review - Let's Hope for the Best by Carolina Setterwall

Title -  Let's Hope for the Best

Author - Carolina Setterwall

Translated by - Elizabeth Clark Wessel

Publisher -  Bloomsbury

Pages - 380

Blurb:

The last night, I fall asleep believing we have thousands of days ahead of us. We don't. This night is our last night.

One evening, Carolina says good night to her partner, Aksel. Things have been tough for both of them recently, especially with an eight-month-old son to raise. So when Aksel dies unexpectedly in the night, Carolina's world is turned upside down.

Based on the author's own experiences, Let's Hope for the Best details the small moments of life before and after tragedy. It's a story about motherhood, family and the difficulties of loving someone who is distant, and then who is gone. Brave and unsparing, packed with emotion and humanity, it is about how the life we envisage for ourselves can be altered in an instant.

What if one moment changed everything you've ever known?

Summary: one morning when new mother Carolina wakes up beside her son and enters to wake her husband Aksel and finds him dead.

Review:

Carolina’s partner Aksel dies suddenly due to cardiac arrest, Carolina is devastated. leaving her the single parent of a baby. 

She now has to re-invent herself and learn to keep on living without him.

The Book takes us through the trajectory of Carolina’s loss, and her life after it. 

She is very self-analytical and brutally honest about her own shortcomings.

The first part of the book is about both the hours and days after the death and about how Carolina and her husband met, fell in love, moved together and got children. It is a wise approach to revive widespread events with early love.

The second part of the book is about two years after Aksel's (Carolina's Husband) death, and how Carolina is trying to find back. 

The book is slow but amazing author tried to present each every detail to make this book beautiful.

Thank you, Bloomsbury India  for the Advance Review copy.

Ratings

Cover: 4/5

Blurb: 4/5

Plot: 3.5/5

Overall: 4/5

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Review - Game Changer by Shahid Afridi & Wajahat S. Khan

Title - Game Change

Author - Shahid Afridi & Wajahat S. Khan

Publisher - HarperCollins 

Pages - 252

Blurb: Game Changer is the riveting memoir of Shahid Afridi, one of modern cricket's most controversial and accomplished practitioners. In 1996, as a teenager, Afridi shot to fame after hammering the fastest ODI century at the time. One of the world's greatest all-rounders, today, he holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket scooping the most wickets in T20s and winning the most player-of-the match awards in the same format. From his humble beginnings in the mountains of Pakistan's unruly northwest to the mean streets of Karachi and the county parks of southern England, Afridi tells his life story just the way he bats - instinctively, candidly and with no holds barred. In a career as unpredictable as his leg-break googlies and 'boom-boom' power hitting, Afridi has been many things - the lost kid focused on pulling his parents out of poverty, the desperate captain trying not to snitch on his corrupt teammates, the gallant Pashtun centurion staring down a hostile Indian crowd, and the bad boy at the centre of a ball-tampering scandal. In Game Changer, he sets the record straight once and for all. A must-read not only for his legion of fans across the world but also for those interested in cricket and Pakistan's future.

Review: Game Changer by Shahid Afridi with Wajahat S. Khan The book starts with the foreword by Wasim Akram how he found new talent in Pakistan in Pakistan Cricket Board in the form of Shahid Afridi a young guy. 

When the selectors weren't sure about his ability Wasim supported him and stood for him and his valuable talent, and Helped him to boost his confidence level in every possible way.

In this book, Shahid Afridi has spoken about his whole journey how he started and how he improved.
The book has a very amusing incident and sad incident too when Shahid faced a massive problem his name got involved In the controversies, spot-fixing scandals, politics and rivalries around the dressing room and many more.
How he prepared himself to recover from these incidents. He also speaks about the game India vs Pakistan with all the true facts which are relatable. How he worked hard towards his team and gave his best for PCB.

You will also read about his journey from Street Cricket to International Cricket and his obsession with cricket.

Every cricket fan should read this Autobiography to learn many things which may help you in life.


Thank you, HarperCollins India for the copy.

Ratings

Cover: 4/5

Blurb: 4/5

Plot: 3.5/5

Overall: 4/5

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Book Review - Tune for the Dead: A Detective Dhruv Mystery by Debashish Irengbam and Anshul Vijayvargiya

Title: Tune for the Dead: A Detective Dhruv Mystery

Author: Debashish Irengbam and Anshul Vijayvargiya

Publisher: HarperCollins India

Pages: 230

Blurb:
One tune. Three listeners. Three grisly suicides. The melody - an eerie piano symphony - is the last thing they hear. Leading an unremarkable existence in the sleepy town of Manali, Private Detective Dhruv is jolted into the heart of this case when he is hired by Misha, daughter of the first victim, Raina Awasthi. As he delves deeper into the mystery, threats against his life begin to multiply. It's soon clear that he is dealing with a conspiracy that goes far beyond suicides and murders, and that there is more at stake here than just his life. The shadows are closing in, and Dhruv is all that stands in their way.

Review: 
The book has been divided into three parts and has three suicides. You will find three different locations in this book.

The plot starts with the location of Manali where the first incident of suicide took place. Misha daughter of the victim Raina Awasthi hires a Dhruv, a private detective.

Right after the first suicide, two more suicides committed by two victims all three suicides had one thing in a common "Tune For The Death" all three Victims listened to one tune right before the suicide. 

The three different people who have nothing in common, Dhruv hasn't any idea about how this case going to change his life.

 Does that tune have something which forced them to take such a dangerous step of suicide? What if the people who had committed suicide has some strong connection with that tune? 

Find out all the answers by reading this amazing book, and enjoy the journey of Dhruv. Debashish & Anshul have done a very great job by presenting this mystery thriller to the readers. 

I'm a fan of those mystery thrillers which produces some curiosity, which forces readers to turn the page to know what is going to happen at the very next point especially this type of book which has many twists and turns.

Thank you, HarperCollins India for the copy.

Ratings

Cover: 4/5

Blurb: 4/5

Plot: 4/5

Overall: 4/5

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About the Author-

Debashish Irengbam is a Mumbai-based scriptwriter. Along with co-writer Anshul Vijayvargiya, he has worked on more than 100 episodes of major crime shows. He is the author of the novels Me, Mia, Multiple and Charlie Next Door. Anshul Vijayvargiya is a Script Writer and Director who has worked on films like Kidnap, Toonpur Ka Superhero and Deadline - Sirf 24 Ghante.

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Review - The Valentines: Happy Girl Lucky by Holly Smale

Title: The Valentines: Happy Girl Lucky

Author: Holly Smale

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 480

Blurb:

Introducing the valentines. Fame – It runs in the family! Sisters hope, faith and mercy have everything: fame, success, money and beauty. But what hope wants most of all is love and it doesn’t matter how far she has to go to find it. Except real-life isn't like the movies. Even if you're a Valentine... Happy girl lucky is the first hilarious, heart-warming book in the valentines series. From the internationally bestselling author of geek girl, Holly smale.

Review:

I had never read any previous Holly Smale's book, and I chose this book for a new experience. And I'm very impressed with Holly's writing style and now she is one of my favorite authors.

The book comes with a very attractive cover HarperCollins never compromises with the quality of covers they are one of the professional publishers in the world I must say.

Hope is the youngest of the famous Family, at nearly sixteen she isn't allowed in the spotlight yet but can't wait to be allowed as she dreams constantly of film style monologues and meeting the one, Hope is desperate for her future to begin. Hope has grown up in a famous family - her parents met on the set of a film - but out of the limelight. 

The Valentines have a family rule that has seen her coddled and protected from the media until she turns sixteen and Hope can’t wait. 

All she wants is to be allowed to start acting as everyone else did in her family. She has three older siblings who barely notice her, and parents who aren't really about, as the story progresses Hope becomes a much more layered and enjoyable character. 

She lives out her days fighting with her sisters, stealing their clothes. Hope’s daydreams appear in the novel as mini scripts complete with wistful actions and declarative dialogue.

There are a few cliches thrown in but there are also a few good one-liners and I enjoyed the family dynamic of the siblings. 

There are many interesting scenes present in the book which I haven't mentioned here to know that and to enjoy this amazing book do grab your copy of The Valentines: Happy Girl Lucky by Holly Smale

Thank you, HarperCollins India for the copy

Ratings

Cover: 5/5

Blurb: 4/5

Plot: 4/5

Overall: 4.5/5

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About the Author-

Holly Smale

HOLLY SMALE wanted to write from the age of five when she discovered that books didn’t grow on trees like apples. Her passion for stories led her on a number of adventures, including modelling, teaching children in Japan, PR and backpacking across dozens of countries around the world. She has a degree in English literature and an MA in Shakespeare and Feminism from Bristol University.The Valentines series is the blockbusting follow-up to the number-one, internationally bestselling and acclaimed Geek Girl series, which sold over three million copies in thirty languages and won the Teen and Young Adult category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.

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Review - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

Title -  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Author - J K Rowling

Publisher - Bloomsbury

Pages - 352

Blurb- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first novel of the much appreciated Harry Potter series. An abridged version of the same novel, this book has been brought out by Bloomsbury Press for children aged between eight and twelve years. The story unfolds with a letter arriving for Harry Potter, a simple boy, that brings with it a dark secret. The letter reveals to Harry Potter that both his parents were wizards and were killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when he was just a baby. Thereafter Potter's journey to the Hogwarts, a school of wizards brimming with magic, mystery and enchantment, spins out into a fascinating tale. After his journey to Hogwarts, young Harry learns of a missing stone — a stone which can be both terrifying and valuable at the same time, depending on who possesses it and how one uses it. Will Harry Potter and his friends be able to get hold of the stone is how the story unfolds from here on? It is here Harry Potter’s long journey spread over 7 books really begins. In simple words and rich prose, this children’s edition rightly captures the essence of the Harry Potter’s first novel and promises to take the children on an enchanting ride to the magical world order.

Review - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling It's not just a story that you will read you will feel too, the characterization and the gripping story takes you to some different imaginary world, you won't even think that does this world exist or not. you will fall in love with each and every character present in this book. you may have seen the movie but I bet you will enjoy this novel more than the movie. in the movie, many scenes were skipped or not picturized just to keep the film short and not too long but in this book, you will find many things which aren't present in the film. now I became a fan of the Harry Potter series and I've decided to complete entire series by end of this year. I would like to thank one of my reader friend who suggested me to read this book. and you know what I haven't any movie of harry potter series which is the best thing. I will watch each movie in the series after reading the book of that part. to compare the differences.

Ratings

Cover: 5/5

Blurb: 5/5

Plot: 5/5

Overall: 5/5

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About the Author-

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 450 million copies worldwide and been translated into 78 languages.

Review -Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz

Title - Bestseller

Author - Ahmed Faiyaz

Publisher - Rupa Publication

Pages - 196

Blurb: Akshay Saxena, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he has to do the impossible. Angus Lee, the new owner of Thomson Lee Books, wants at least five bestsellers in the coming year, failing which the business would be wound up. He has to find a way of making a success out of books he would never publish or would never even read. To complicate things further, he has to contend with motley crew of has-beens and misfits working for the publishing house as well as wannabe writers, dealing with their follies and derisive tactics, and battle his own affections for Zorah Kalim, the impulsive daughter of his former boss. Will he succeed in bringing out that one ‘bestseller’ from his publishing house? And what about his own life and love in office? Find out in this riveting read.

Review: I always wanted to know about the publishing companies how they work on every single book. how they convert the raw manuscript into a book with attractive covers. and fond many things in this amazing book "Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz"

The story starts with a dramatic way like a movie where a protagonist is in Taxi and having a small conversation with a taxi driver.
The story is about Akshay and Zorah, Where Akshay got terminated from his job in the UK and he flew to India in a search of a job in Kalim Publications a company which is about to shut down. Zorah a daughter of the owner of Kalim Publication.
Mr. Kalim an owner of Kalim Publications got a heart attack and he passed away after having a discussion with Akshay about their work. and Akshay took all the responsibilities on his shoulder to run Kalim Publications, and Zorah also joins the team of Kalim Publication.
Author has done a fantastic job. and did the justice to each and every character. the writing style is also good it keeps you engaged.

Will Akshay manages to run Kalim Publications? the question remains the same until you pick this books in your lovely hand and find out the answer.

Ratings

Cover: 4/5

Blurb: 4/5

Plot: 4/5

Overall: 4/5

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