Author – Ruchi Vadehra

Rating – 4/5 stars

Number of Pages – 236

Publisher – Rupa Publications

‘Great Textpectations’ is a story of new age romance and heartbreaks. The new age love starts with texting and ends on blocking the number. The virtual love and virtual relationships are the base of this story. It is easy to be connected all the time, crediting technology and not physically present with him or her. Based on ‘text is the new talk’, this book talks about relationships without baggage.

Amaya, thirty-five, single and ready to mingle wants a boy who could understand her and her field of work. One who could understand giving space in relationship and respect who she is. She is a lover of words. She met a boy while playing Scrabble online, and that’s how their story started. Starting from a casual talk and ended becoming friends and exchanging numbers, this relationship goes offline and they decided to meet. What happens to the virtual relationship when they meet in the real world?

The metro city and metro culture are in the backdrop of the story. In the cities where life is too fast to keep the balance, relationships are becoming more and more fragile. Lust overpower the magic of love, changing equations of the new age relationships and romance in the fast-paced life where dreams and ambitions take the front seat and relations sits in the back seat.

The story is interesting and of a new age. It surely appeals to the texting generation who believes in keeping the world in their pocket and everything at just a click away. The story is relatable. The characters are sorted and clear. Relationships have changed in the last decades and this book talks about the changed mindsets. A story of modern love.

Author Bio

Ruchi Vadehra belongs to a family of writers from both sides of parentage. Writing is, thus, homecoming to her. She began with conceptualising and co-editing a neighbourhood community newsletter which inspired her to take forward her zest for words, people and travel, through fiction.

Ruchi lives with her husband, two children and family in New Delhi. Great Textpectations is her first book.

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Author – Nikita Singh

Rating – 3/5 stars

Number of Pages – 141

Publisher – Harper Collins Publisher India

Many times it happens, the things left unsaid. Letters to My Ex is a story of things left unsaid and unspoken words and trying to discover what it was and how it affected their relationship and bring them to a crossroad.

They visited again and rewind the time they spent together in the café, on the streets hand in hand and conversations they had over the phone calls and still few things they afraid to say to each other. Why did that happen? We discover it in the book.

The plot is great, in fact, unique which makes it different. I was more intrigue in the story just because of the plot. The storyline is good that is in the form of letters but could have been better. I am not completely impressed how the story runs through the pages. This is not her best work.

The thing I like about the story is the way protagonist Nidhi bared it all in the letters she writes to her ex. She said it all and opened her heart to Abhay to read it like a book. Nidhi knew what she wants from life and Abhay and not afraid to say it and take the plunge. The character of Nidhi is a strong girl.

The author sketched the characters beautifully. The characters are sorted and the author knew where to take the story. It is a short book which hardly takes few hours. Looking for a new plot story. Give it a try.

A story of love and togetherness. A story of heartbreaks and hopes. A story of unfulfilled promises.

Author Bio

Nikita Singh is the bestselling author of ten novels, including Every Time It Rains and Like a Love Song. She is also a contributing writer to The Backbenchers series and the editor of two collections of short stories, 25 Strokes of Kindness and The Turning Point.

Born in Patna and raised in Indore, Nikita worked in the book publishing industry in New Delhi for a few years before moving to New York for her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at The New School.

Nikita lives in Manhattan, where she does digital content and marketing for a solar energy company. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram (@singh_nikita) or on Facebook.

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Author – Koral Dasgupta

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 252

Publisher – Rupa Publications

Rasia is a story of dance, passion and obsession. A man passionate about his craft of dancing. A wife, a student and a perfect partner. A made for each other couple. A stubborn and obsessed girl. A Bharatnatyam show in Manhattan which brings them all on one stage.

The story revolves around dance and passion. Raj Shekhar Subramaniam keeping his unhappy and unfortunate past behind and giving his dream a bigger picture trying to run ahead of time. He wants to shadow his past with the clinquant future so no one questions his past and he will have nothing to regret. His passion for Bharatanatyam is uncompromising.

The story captivates you as soon you get in the forty-fifty pages in the book. The characters of Raj Shekhar Subramaniam and Vatsala Pandit are mysterious and interesting. I like the way the author explores the characters and give them space to come forward and speak the readers directly. The characters communicate with you and open their heart to peek in.

The character of Mansi is simple and well sorted. She has nothing to hide. She is at peace with her life and happy to see her husband grow and support his passion for Bharatnatyam. She is an obedient student and a perfect partner for life and dance.

The story is perfect and worked well for me. A journey of a self-made man behind whose lie the contribution of two women. One who supported him and stands as a rock and other challenged him to perform on stage with her. Find out who is a better partner with him on stage.

A story of the dance of desire. An excellent story, well articulated and superbly narrated. The story speaks perfection.

Author Bio

Koral Dasgupta’s stories appear randomly through her books, academic lectures, speeches, columns and paintings. A literary movement founded by her, www.tellmeyourstory.in, hosts short stories and poems written by people across age, professions and geographies.

As a professor of Marketing, Communications and Creative Writing, she conducts workshops and talks at educational and corporate floors. She also consults with the corporate in marketing communication and content space. She is an advisory member with CBFC Mumbai.

 Rasia: The Dance of Desire is her third book.

You can reach her on Twitter or Instagram @Rasia_thebook.

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Author – Anuj Tiwari

Rating – 3/5 stars

Number of Pages – 250

Publisher – Rupa Publications

Friendship; the older it gets the stronger it becomes. Friendship is just like an old wine. But, only a few get lucky to have friends for life or forever. An unbreakable bond with no said rules still it is most cherished and celebrated and supposedly the best time of life.

I Tagged Her in my Heart is a story of a friendship of four friends, Arjun, Adrika, Anushka and Ved. They are not best of friends. They are a lifeline for each other. When one is in pain everyone felt the same. When one succeeds, everyone felt over the moon. They are tied in an unbreakable bond with unsaid terms of being with each other till the life ends, no matter what. They follow every rule like a religion.

They met in the college and become friends and partner in pain and happiness. Arjun dreams to be an author and Adrika bagged the best job. Everything is going the way it should be but life is not always the same. What happens in their life and how they will struggle to cope with the situations is rest of the story.

The story is based on friendship, love and betrayal. How some relations bring you the darkness and only give pain and how some relations help you come out of the same. The story has a message to never give up on your dreams and look at the brighter side of the life. Every dream is worth taking a risk and you never know what you are destined for. Go and get your dreams. It is never too late, everything happens for a reason and at the right time.

A light and simple read targeted to the new age readers.

Author Bio

A TEDx speaker and marketing consultant settled in Mumbai, Anuj Tiwari was brought up on the bushing streets of Bareilly. Instead of getting a ‘modern education’, Tiwari studied in a Sanskrit-medium school where there were no English books. He started building dreams of being able to read in English: however, he kept those dreams to himself in the fear of being mocked at.

Tiwari is now the bestselling author of the three books. He sold his books on the streets of Mumbai and has been listed as one of the top ten most influential authors in India in 2016.

I Tagged Her in My Heart is Anuj Tiwari’s most personal creation, inspired by his own life.

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