Book Review of  The Severed Thread

Book Name - The Severed Thread

Author - Leslie Vedder

Publisher - Penguin Teen

Thank you coloredpagesblogtours , penguinteen and leslievedder for the opportunity and for the free Arc copy.

Author Information - Leslie Vedder is a YA author who loves girl heroes and adventurers. She grew up on

fantasy books, anime, fanfiction, and the Lord of the Rings movies, and met her true

love in high school choir. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a

BA in creative writing, and currently lives in Colorado with her wife and two spoiled

house cats.

Content - Fi has awakened the sleeping Prince Briar, but the battle of Andar is far from over yet. She has to get rid of the Spindle Witch, the Witch Hunters and her own Butterfly Curse before she can think of a future with Briar.

Shane is always there to save Fi's back but she is in for the fight of her life against Red, the Spindle Witch's right hand. How much she wanted to avoid her, but somehow she is there for Red whenever she needs saving.

Briar Rose is determined to restore his kingdom at any cost but there is darkness inside him ready to plunge out at any time and which would cost him everything he held dear.

All the hopes of restoring Andar rest on solving a mysterious book code, finding the hidden city of the last witches and uncovering a secret lost for centuries - which might hold the key to the Spindle Witch's defeat.

Read the book to know if they are successful in retrieving the secret and defeating the Spindle Witch.

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My Views - The Severed Thread is the second book in the Bone Spindle Trilogy. The story started from the cliffhanger from the first book where Fi and Shane along with Briar and the Paper Witch started their journey to find the hidden city of the last witches to uncover a secret that might help them defeat the Spindle Witch.

Like the first book, in this one also, the dynamics between Fi and Shane are a treat to read. They clearly go on with each other all the time but underneath that they have love and respect for each other and are always ready to protect each other's back. In this book, more background stories are added to all the characters including Red. Her character definitely added more interesting elements to the story. Her journey from being their enemy to friend and her past, her connection to the Spindle Witch, everything added more excitement to the storyline.

This book is as interesting as the previous one with more adventures, magical hidden cities and more secrets to unravel.

This book also ends in a cliffhanger as it is the second book of a trilogy. I am intrigued to see how the author takes the book to the finale.

Overall, this one is a very exciting and fun read.

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My Rating - 4⭐/5⭐

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Favourite quotes - 

“I had to. I couldn’t stand to lose . . .” You. The word stuck in her throat. “Someone I care about.” - Fi 

“You are the key to the Spindle Witch’s defeat. Whatever happens, we cannot risk losing you. For the sake of all of Andar.” - The Paper Witch

"If I could do it all again— even if I’d known everything from the beginning, I’d still try to save you." - Shane

"Our darkest thoughts are most powerful when we are unconscious. In dreams, whatever weakness lies buried in your heart will try to pull you in— and if you succumb to those nightmares, you can become lost in your own mind. Forever. Surely you understand why you of all people must never dream walk alone, Briar Rose." - The Dream Witch 

Review of Sherlock and Devdas

Book Review of  Sherlock and Devdas

Book Name - Sherlock and Devdas

Author - Manav Vigg

“𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓸𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱 𝓮𝔂𝓮.”

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Content - Sherlock and Devdas are poles apart from each other from every aspect, where Devdas belongs from a rich family and is a broken-hearted drunk, Sherlock is a newbie detective trying to get his first big case and has an exceptional deduction capability. When Devdas's family heirloom artefacts got stolen mysteriously including his very dear painting "Raasleela" , he got really upset and appoint Sherlock to solve the case and retrieve those precious items. When Sherlock took up the case and started investigating, somehow Devdas also got involved in the case and together they got involved into dangerous situations to get back the artefacts.

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Will they be successful? Who stole those valuable items and how? Read the book to go deeper into thi mystery.

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My Views - We all are very familiar with Sherlock and Devdas and their stories. In this book also they play the same role as they are famously known as. But the author has brought them together to make a unique storyline. In this story also Devdas is a rich person who has drowned himself in alcohol to forget his one true love Paro. Where as Sherlock is a new detective who has an exceptional deduction capability. But the main twist here is that Devdas here had to auction his family heirlooms and those mysteriously got stolen and Sherlock was appointed to solve this mystery. The author has beautifully portrayed both the characters differently without changing their original key attributes. 

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The storyline is full of twists and turns and the climax is really unpredictable. Both the characters support and compliment each other. The story starts in a very mysterious way and along the wayit again merge with the main storyline to give the story a perfect closure.

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All the characters of the book are beautifully designed and very important for the story to go further. The language is quite easy.

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Overall a very interesting thriller.

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My Rating - 4⭐/5⭐

Book Review of  The Code of Manavas

The Code of Manavas

Author - Arpit Bakshi

Publisher - Rupa Publication

Price - 295(printed price)

Page - 285

Genre -Mythological Science Fiction
Thanks @thatreading.freak,@author_arpit for the review copy...

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Content - The book is set in future(2 million past the year 2050).Kali-yuga has ended and Swarnim-yuga is prevailing on Bhoomi(the erstwhile Earth).A greater human race called Manavas are now living on the only two existing place on Bhoomi,Madhavpur amd Ayudhpur.They are immortals and have more skills than their ancestors.But they are not naturally blessed with these powers.Krishna,the protagonist here is an brilliant scientist and he have invented Bhoomidium,a rare element that has made this phenomenon possible and has stopped human from going extinct.

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But now Bhoomidium is finishing and Bhoomi is about to see an apocalypse.But Krishna has found a new planet with similar components as Bhoomi and is working hard to make the planet livable.But there is an intruder in Madhavpur who doesn't want Krishna to succeed and creating problems for him and he has more nefarious plans in his pocket.

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Who is the intruder?What are his plans?Will Krishna be successful in his process before Bhoomi crumbles?Read the book to find.

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My Review - This is a mythological science fiction which has suspense and adventurous element in it.The history of earth and solar system are very well briefed.There are dinosaurs,transportasion,time-space concept and everything is very well merged.You can actually visualize everything as you read.The first half of the book was quite slow and too many scientific terms were used(though there is a glossary at the end) and the language is also a little difficult at some places.But the last part was very interesting and the end will keep you waiting for the second part.

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I really liked the book and will definitely recommend if you love science fiction.It will make a great motion picture if turned into one.

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My Rating -3.75⭐️/5⭐️