God is very well a Gamer and with Ravi Subramanian’s latest
book coming to the stands of all bookstores (virtual and physical) this book is
surely going to create a buzz among readers of the genre. Best known for
writing mostly about the banking business, the writer, with this book has
brought into view a Bitcoin thriller. The cover of the book with the colors
used and the texture of the title give in itself how grand this book is going
to be. And with such a tagline used “Is Revenge a Crime?” I am sure the book is
going to catch eyeballs.
According to the back cover- What happen when you cross gamer, banker, politician and terrorist with
virtual money? From the bestselling author of If God was a Banker comes the
first ever Bitcoin thriller. God is a Gamer is a world where money means
nothing, martyrs are villains, predators are prey, assassination is taught by
the ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems. Moving from Washington’s
Congress to Delhi’s finance ministry, the beaches of Goa to the corporate boardrooms
of Mumbai, this is Ravi Subramanian’s most gripping novel yet.
Yes, I would totally agree with the fact that this book is
surely one gripping novel. For the laymen who don’t know the meaning of Bitcoin
then this book is something that you must read! Don’t worry, you need not Google
the word to know what it means cause the book in itself has given in a total
view of what a Bitcoin is and how it works. Throughout the book, the use of
words and terms of real places and of organizations gives the book its much
needed realistic feel.
Coming to the characters, I felt that the characterization
was good but still the author has used a very wide range of characters from
different aspects of life which might take the readers off track at certain
places. But since most of the characters were important to the plot, at some
point or the other, the readers get a wind of the characters. There have been
parts of the story, where I had to actually sit and think who was a character
if the character has been jumped off from one scene to another.
As far as the story goes, I would call it a very nice mix of
flavors from different viewpoints of life. The ‘most widely known’ topics of
the era now are all covered in a fictionalized tale spun by the author and is
presented to us in a very new way. Gaming-Politics-Banking-Terrorism all are
linked together in a very nice way. And I am sure, just like the other
thrillers this one would also force the readers to put their thinking caps on
and they would be eager to solve the mystery.
Coming to a few flaws of the story, I felt the start was a
bit slow (to say the least) and it could’ve been written in a better way. Apart
from that; the end was something that could’ve been predicted since a long
time! The author had left clues throughout the book and any smart reader can
very well catch those clues and solve the case, sit back and see the fictional
characters laying it out in front of them. At the end, since it was very
predictable, I felt that a change was expected.
For Ravi Subramanian fans, this book is surely one of the
best and will make its mark on the readers for a long time! A very wonderful
job done by the author. All the questions have been answered in the end about
the title and the sub-title and that will leave the readers satisfied while
closing the book. And howsoever the end was, it will keep the readers
entertained. For me, the book was 4.25 out of 5 hoping to read more such
awesome books from the writer!
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