The Last Survivors by T.W. Piperbrook
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Life after apocalypse. Survival is the only goal of the leftovers when almost entire humanity becomes sort of zombies.
A simple civilization with no technology, no knowledge about history or science or any other major field, no inventions, too much faith in superstitious thoughts.
No complex political structures, country politics. Simple society structure with small simple settlement villages. Threats for life are wild animals, zombies/spores and sometimes their system itself.
In simple, zombie story in future with ancient life style.
1st half of story is pretty normal and boring but with time story gains speed. There are some interesting characters especially the child, William, around who the story spins. I liked that character a lot that I don't want to read the next part of story anytime soon. I don't want to see the end of him :(
Except for few edge of seat moments in second half of novel and the surprises here and there, novel is pretty average.
But towards the end, novel was good and gave hope that the next part will not have the dull start. Hoping next part will be good ..
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You are the Password to my Life by Sudeep Nagarkar
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Simple. Touching. Sentimental.
3 words to describe this book.
Sudeep made the story with good proposition of friendship and love. A story that can play with your emotions.
There were some good quotes in the book.
If you are 90s kid and have been through the era when there was unlimited free text messages that kept flowing your mobile, you can spot a lot of those messages you have received in the book. Me being from that period, felt a bit nostalgic of those good old days :)
The only thing I felt disturbing with the book is, there were too many quotes. It's true that they are good, but still the quantity in which they came in is a bit high. For every second page, reading a paragraph with lot of quotes is a bit annoying. They make the story move slow.
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Deception Point by Dan Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Usual Dan Brown script..
Plenty of information. Suspense plot. This time there is no sign of religion or rituals. It is full of science (astrophysics) and politics (the dirty part mostly).
He is one of my favorite authors :)
I like the way he fills the story with lots of information. He did the same in this book too.
But the problem of reading more of Dan Brown is that the suspense which (is one of the reasons that) attracted me towards him is not there anymore. Before even reaching middle of the story, the antagonist can be judged, provided you have read many of his works already. His writing has became predictive with time. Sad truth!
I think it's time for him to come up with something unusual. It's time for a change..
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This book reminded me digital fortress in many places. Can't help it..
Powerful, good natured Head of a powerful secret organization turns negative because of some reason which he finds to be good enough to do bad deeds.
Female protagonist.
Protagonist trusts antagonist with her life, treats him more of a fatherly figure.
Morally ambitious character which looks bad but not that bad in reality, dies because of antagonist.
Aliased mail ID.
Element of nature playing major role. Almost ends protagonist's life, kills antagonist (fire in digital fortress, water in deception point).
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