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Book Name: Happy Place Author: Emily Henry Publisher: Penguin Books Sea Genre: Romance  Format: Paperback Print Length: 338 Rating: 3.5/5 Tropes: Found Family, Friends to Lovers, Second Chance, Fake Dating Happy Place by Emily Henry is a novel that follows second-chance romance, friends to lover, and fake dating tropes taking readers on a roller coaster ride exploring the journey of the witty characters. Book Blurb On Amazon Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. But the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be here together. They can't bear to break t...

Book Name: Dakini Author: K. Hari Kumar Publisher: Harper Fiction Genre: Horror  Format: Paperback/Kindle Print length: 368 pages  Rating: 4.5/5 “The temperature in the room plummeted dramatically , despite the power cut, as if the very air itself had turned cold with dread. Outside, the sky darkened ominously while distant thunder rumbled like a warning from the heavens.”  Dakini by Hari Kumar is a captivating and engaging tale that masterfully blends social commentary with it. Book Blurb On Amazon While investigating a spate of unexplained deaths in a remote village, Mumbai-based journalist Mamta learns of the dakini: a bloodthirsty entity that haunts the surrounding forests, leaving mutilated corpses in her wake. As the villagers' terror grows, so does their dangerous suspicion of women. With lives on the line, including her own, Mamta is dragged into a race against time-all whilst trying to escape her traumatic past, which threatens to turn her own mind against ...

Book Name: The Homecoming Author: Preeti Shenoy Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Contemporary Fiction  Format: Paperback/Kindle Print length: 320 pages  Rating: 3.5/5 Preeti Shenoy’s The Homecoming is the sequel to A Place Called Home, that explores further themes and new revelations in the lives of the characters. Book Blurb On Amazon When the past unravels, is love enough to hold the future together? To the world, Alka’s life is picture-perfect—she lives a charmed existence in a beautiful heritage bungalow on her husband Subbu’s coffee estate with their two lovely daughters. But when disaster strikes after Subbu’s near-fatal accident, buried secrets begin to surface, ripping apart the veneer of perfection. Even as Alka struggles to care for her husband and revive the fortunes of the failing estate, she is faced with an agonizing choice: fight for her strained marriage or give in to the long dormant love she feels for her brother-in-law, Krish. Can Alka’s marriage survi...

2024 was a year of gaining and losing. Hahaha, you would regard that every year is like that. What was exceptional in that year? No, my friend. When I say gaining and losing, I mean embracing goodness and losing negativity, holding myself and letting go of what did not work for me, and the significant thing is carrying the ideology of everything coming to me at the right time and place, be it buying new things, collaborating with people in life, or traveling places. With that, I am writing this blog to reflect upon my year 2024. It was challenging to cover 365 days in one post, so I resolved to put it in six words that would sum up the whole year.  ✨ Struggles - Though "struggles" are what keep life in place, I still wanted to use this word to sum up. Even after trying desperately to tick off one particular thing that did not work out as expected, I remember how different lessons I learned with each passing day and month. It was then that I realized I should be determined, no...

Book Name: IL Cuore Author: Shilpa Suraj Publisher: Self Published Genre: Contemporary Fiction Format: Kindle Print length: 114 pages  Rating: 4.5 /5 Il Cuore by Shilpa Suraj is a heartwarming holiday romance unlike typical romance story that will drive readers crazy. Blurb on Amazon Kanak Thakkar has decided this Christmas is going to be the best one ever, and Santa help anyone who gets in her way! From gigantic Christmas trees to life size Santas, reindeers and elves, to enough decorations to cover a small city, she’s turned Il Cuore into Santa’s little village itself. And still, it doesn’t seem to be enough. She is determined to give her a child a memory to cherish forever…never mind that said child is still inside her womb and not due to enter the world for another two weeks. Summoned to Il Cuore for a magical Christmas, the gang gathers for an epic reunion. What follows is a madcap caper of hijinks, parental fails, communication mishaps, and couple wars that have even Ma...

Book Name: Midaash and Maitreyi’s Magical Mayhem Author: Shobhita Narayan Publisher: Scholastic Genre: Children Fantasy Format: Paperback Print length: 112 pages  Rating: 4 /5 Midaash & Maitreyi’s Magical Mayhem by Shobhita Narayan is a delightful collection of short stories that will transport readers to the world of magic and surprise. Blurb on Amazon There is no magic in the village of Gol Gumbad or that is what everyone believes. That is until an old mage appears and grants magical wishes to little children. Midaash falls for the words of the mage and sets off a chain of events which change the lives of all the children in Gol Gumbad. Together with his sister, Maitreyi, and friend, Chittaa, Midaash sets out to make things right. But magic is never so simple, is it? A delightful read with six magical stories and lively characters inspired from your favourite fairytales. Review Shobhita Narayan’s Midaash & Maitreyi’s Magical Mayhem is a short story collection with s...

Book Name: The Summer of Letting Go Author: Catherine Dellosa Publisher: Penguin Books Sea Genre: Young Adult Fiction Format: Paperback Print length: 186 pages  Rating: 4.5 /5 The Summer of Letting Go by Catherine Dellosa is an exploration of balancing between holding on and letting go. Blurb on Amazon A heartbreaking tale of an 18-year-old girl who attempts to keep her uncle's ghost in the earthly plane, but is forced to question what it means to let go when a hot college-boy barista brews his way into her life.  'Death blinked into existence when Uncle Drew left. It’s never going to leave me now, and I’m never going to let it.' When eighteen-year-old Kali's uncle dies in a car accident on his way to pick her up from school, her world stops. The sudden void where her favourite person used to be leaves her a ghost of what she once was - at least, until she starts seeing Uncle Drew on the corner of Tea For Two where he was supposed to meet her. When Kali applies fo...