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What a gripping story this is!! On the surface, it’s a mystery about a woman who has committed an heinous crime and has neither accepted nor rejected her guilt as she has opted for silence. So what’s so special about this enigmatic killer that draws the readers into this masterfully crafted novel? Alicia Berenson is accused of brutally killing her husband in their home. This act has resulted in not just his death but the death of her old life too. That famous charismatic artist and wife of a famous photographer is now replaced with a silent patient locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Howe ..read more

When you leave the original storyline on a pause, this is how the saga should unfold towards a satisfying ending. The first book closed on all sorts of cliffhangers, so it’s hard not to imagine how this sequel kicks off with the discovery of mysterious bag of bones. Where the first novel presents the background of the four mysterious children and their secretive lives, this book is more focused on filling their individual backgrounds and what happened when they left the aforementioned house of horrors. So, it’s no surprising that we hear the storyline from the perspective of different charact ..read more

The novel begins with a backstory about five high schoolers who were punished for behaving uncharacteristically foolish during a class which has led them to their current predicament. It’s neither a smooth starting nor the characters introduced are easygoing. Still, something about the humdrum beginning keeps the readers engaged to deliver a gut punch. The punch comes in the form of an unexpected ending of Simon’s life in the middle of detention. Simon along with his fellow classmates-Bronwyn, Nate, Cooper, and Addy are facing detention for their teacher Mr. Avery’s class as each one of th ..read more

I started reading this book at the beginning of the year and it really captured my attention for quite some time. It’s not necessarily because of the book size or so many details covered in it, it’s rather because I was savouring every single memory mentioned in this book. I really enjoyed reading about all the little anecdotes that comprise these memories and how beautifully they are strewn across the book. The post Becoming By Michelle Obama appeared first on Charanti & Chai ..read more

Published in 2021 in the middle of a global catastrophe, this is an interesting novel correlating the idea of isolation and depressive thoughts during such challenging times with the modern living. what the living cut-off with the global crisis but from a different perspective. The story revolves around four main characters, although there are other characters like Felix’s brother who pops in for one dramatic moment to lead it in an unexpected direction. But largely it is a story narrating lives of four people, out of these Alice and Eileen loom large over the said narration taking it ahea ..read more

Let’s call this as a sleeping beauty story with modern plot twists set against an American backdrop. But unlike the original fairy tale where the darling princess is sleeping because of an uninvited curse, this beautiful girl is inviting sleep on account of a self inflicted curse. Wait, what???!!!! Does this make sense at all?? Those were my first thoughts when I started listening to this sleepy saga about a resting project initiated by a 24 year old on account of unknown reasons. In the beginning, her reason of shutting out the world and pulling covers over her eyes (literally!) seem mysteri ..read more

There are so many books whose covers disappoint and then there are those whose cover delivers as promised. This book by David Guterson comes in the second category which delivers problems faced by people as promised on the cover of it. To be frank, it is not all gloom and doom narrative but rather peculiar life events narrated with a sharp tone. As mentioned earlier, there are multiple people facing numerous problems and we come across one after another in each story. Some are facing anxieties, some are going through boredom while some are aching for something from the past. What connects th ..read more

Oh my goodness, what did I just read??!!!! This is psychedelic stuff but still phenomenally fascinating, so engaging that it will keep you awake at night long after it’s finished. The book itself starts on a gory note acting like a prenomination of what has to come ahead in the storyline when the protagonist of this novel- Lowen Ashleigh witnesses an accident on the streets of New York. As sudden as the experience is, it’s also jarring for her and the reason behind this is revealed much later in the book. This accident leads to another accident that is Lowen and Jeremy’s meeting. So suddenly ..read more