Have you ever been fascinated by murders? How
crime takes place? Ever been humiliated in front of the whole school because
you were shorter than the shortest girl in your school? Or maybe woke up one
day only to find out that you have no idea who you are or where you are from?
Kunal Pancholi, in his debut fiction shares just that.
According to the back cover- 28th April, 2000 Flight No. 9*876
bound to Srinagar has crash landed into the Everest base Camp. Unconfirmed
reports suggest that the flight mysteriously went off the radar for few minutes
and missed its landing. All passengers are feared dead… except for three bodies
that are yet to be recovered. 8th December, 2050 this without doubt
is the most gruesome murder in recent times. Early this morning, an
unidentified woman was found mutilated at the western gates of the abandoned
Victoria Terminus station in Mumbai. Authorities report her head was.. Well.. Semi-decapitated
and she was drained of all her blood. The shocking part- the crime scene was
devoid of any signs of blood spatter…
After reading the blurb, any reader can
feel the heat rising as he/she is forced to read the story at one go. Talking
about the characters, well; the characters of Rudra and Rohan has been very
well thought of and written in a wonderful way such that the readers get to the
flow of the story automatically.
The concept of the story has been
wonderfully sketched out. A person who has a height complex, who suffers from a
plane crash and returns to his normal life after being in a state of delusion
for 5 years, only to see everything has changed, yet not much.
A person who suddenly wakes up one day and
notices that he has forgotten everything related to his past. He gets back to
his life after a fingerprint test which tells him who he is and where he stays
and he goes with the flow, only to be getting more and more revelations on the
way.
The narrating style of the author, jumping
from Rohan’s life to Rudra’s life and back again piques up the readers interest
as it gains momentum; arousing the readers to read the complete book at one go.
The book, however; has a very slow start.
After quite some time, the readers might feel a bit bored owing to the scenes
being stretched so much; but the ‘climax’ of the book or rather of the story
gains the readers’ trust at the perfect point and re-emerges as a promising
read.
As for the grammatical mistakes were
concerned, there weren’t much and the last few pages were OMG! For me, I loved
Rudra’s parts the most; he being my favorite character. And so, to end it; I
would like to rate this book 3.75 out of 5 expecting more from the author in
the future.
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