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Amit hides behind the fridge, with all lights turned off. He breathes lightly so that his breath can’t be felt. Amit’s heart rate increases as footsteps sound become louder, he tries to control his fear and anxiety and is ready to run away from the room when there is a slight chance ahead of him. Suddenly, power is back up, hence lights are turned on. Amit sweats more as his chances of getting alive now are very less, he tries to squeeze himself even more without making any noise, so that even his shadow isn’t to be seen. The murderer searches the room, cupboards, and the balcony and finds nothing. The murderer doesn’t give up the search as she is sure that Amit is still in the house. On her way out of the room, she opens the fridge to find a way to kill her thirst. After 2 mins of silence, she ways away to the next room, which has a door to exit the house. Amit glad that she could not find him gets up and moves towards the door and opens the door slowly only to find the murderer, h...

Review: Adultery by  Paulo Coelho Adultery by Paulo Coelho Review Author: Paulo Coelho Price: Rs. 947 Pages: 272 Genre: Thriller, Romance I had the excitement when I picked up Paulo Coelho’s book Adultery as the title had a lot to say. Paulo Coelho’s inspirational content is the reason for the popularity of his books. In this book, he has a very different style of writing.  The story is about Linda, who is a journalist in her thirties, with a husband and two children. She is quite content with her married life. She loves her family but discovers that there is something missing in her life and killing her inside. She craves for some excitement. As a result, she falls in love with her school boyfriend which results in an explicit relationship. Out of her depression, she even meets a drug dealer and thinks he is a person who she could talk to. Linda feels ashamed for whatever she had done and understands the true meaning of life and love. S...

And Then There were NONE by Agatha Christie Author:  Agatha Christie Price:  Rs. 423 Pages:  264 Genre:  Thriller Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. For a very long time, I wanted to read this book and I am so glad I did it now. When I first began to read the book I was incredibly drawn to the plot. It's a story of ten guests brought together by a mysterious entity to stay at a house on soldier island, a remote place with no means of departure. Each of them has committed a sin in their past and escaped from the law. One by one they begin to die. They find that the way each of them was being killed, was according to a poem written on the frame hanging in their bedrooms. Each death creates a fear among them and they understand that one among them must be the killer. The story revolves around how they try to find out the killer and in the same course of time how each of them dies. At the end, the killer reveals hi...

Review of Secretly yours by Vikrant Khanna Author:  Vikram Khanna Price:  Rs. 125/- Pages:  280 Genre:  Romance, Thriller I’ve not read any of Vikram Khanna’s previous books. Secretly Yours, he has a very simple style of writing and has filled his narrative with twists that make for a good potboiler. It is a romantic thriller with supernatural elements, that added the whole thrill of reading the book in a go. The story revolves around the seventeen-year-old boy Sahil who falls in love with a mysterious girl called Anya. The story goes much beyond this and talks about suspicious multiple murders. Every murder happening in Shimla somehow surrounds around Sahil and Anya. They spend time together and Sahil expresses his feelings to Anya. Sahil is heartbroken and in a turn of events, he meets with an accident. It kills his grandmother and lands him in the hospital with a coma. When he recovers he gets the power to read minds. The accident brings him clo...

Review: The Girl of My Dreams, by  Durjoy Datta Review of The Girl fo my dreams by Durjoy Datta Author:  Durjoy Datta Price:  Rs. 199 /- Pages:  288 Genre:  Thriller I have first read “If it’s not Forever, then It’s not Love” by Durjoy Datta and loved his books from then on. However, The Girl of my Dreams is a genre change for Durjoy Datta. The book is a Thriller with love and obsession as the central theme. The book is about the Protagonist, Daman who is facing challenges in life after surviving a deadly car accident. His girlfriend, Shreyasi, was with him in the car and he feels that because he was driving that day and he is guilty of her death. Daman meets his new girlfriend, Avni who doesn’t like Daman mentioning Shreyasi, his virtual girlfriend in his writings. Even after Avni’s repeated appeal to him to name her instead of Shreyasi, he keeps using his virtual girlfriend’s name. The plot becomes chaotic when Shreyasi comes back to...