The Fiction Freak Reviews

  Book Review: Legend of Suheldev Author: Amish Tripathi & The Immortal Writers’ Centre   “Darkness does not win because it is strong. It wins because the lamps stop fighting.” Before we get on with the review let me start by stating that this book was not written exclusively by Amish Tripathi. According to the forward provided by him, in his own words, “ I cannot write faster than a book every one-and-a-half to two years. And at that pace, I will die before I write down all the story ideas that Lord Shiva has already blessed me with. Hence, the idea of a Writers’ Centre. It was a suggestion from my team, and it made eminent sense to me. I work with a team of writers, to whom I relate the complete story, and the research material to be read. They then write the first draft, which I then work upon. So the genesis of the story and the final writing is done by me, while the team writes the first draft.” Amish Tripathi is one of the famous Indian author who had penned ...

  Book Review: Master of the Game Author: Sidney Sheldon   “Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” Sidney Sheldon is one of such authors whose books has had reached every corner of this world. Millions of readers since decades have been praising the beloved author’s stories that features almost everything blending into an experience worthy of a one’s lifetime. Master of the Game was first published more than four decades ago and was in general loved by the readers. Four decades later, well this might not be true.   “The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.” The plot of the book spans widely from the 19 th century to the almost entire 20 th century covering four generation of a family, their fall, rise and the hurdles that life brought along the way. Jamie McGregor leaves Scotland for Klipdrift, a pl...

  Book Review: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Author: Paulo Coelho   “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”   Whenever you read a Paulo Coelho book, you seem to open a door to mysticism that takes your soul for a spiritual ride. Coelho has the dexterity of making the simplest of stories into magical tales. The Alchemist author has written some brilliant books and "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" is one such.   “We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”   Pilar, the narrator, fell in love when she was just a girl of seventeen. Her lover, at that time, had left to explore the world. Pilar led a life of eleven years where she developed a charisma of never expecting anything from any men. Her hollow lif...