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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.”



Judy Balan and Kishore Manohar, two Indian writers, pen a sarcastic tale in contrast to the popular India writer, Chetan Bhagat's book, Half Girlfriend in their new book, Half Boyfriend. This book, in short, is a parody to Bhagat's book and the authors have diligently portrayed the sarcasm and the criticism of Bhagat's story thereby inventing a hilarious tale of a boy-girl love story.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”




Rory Flynn, a Boston-based mystery writer, is back with yet another edgy and twisted thriller in his new book, Dark Horse that is the second book in the Eddy Harkness series where the stories are revolving around a Boston-based cop, Eddy Harkness, the local hero, commonly known as the "Harvard Cop" and his adventures while serving the Narco-Intel department of his city. This book unfolds the story of a deadly drug wiping clean of any lives, those are found alive despite of a deadly hurricane, of a fictional town in Boston and the few lucky ones are wandering into Eddy's hometown, thus creating more trouble that Eddy can sniff from the very comfort of his own home.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”




Steve Martini, an American best-selling author, pens an exciting yet thrilling new book from his Paul Madriani series, Blood Flag and it is the fourteenth book in the series. This series is centered around a quite renowned Californian attorney, Paul Madriani, flanked by his partner, Harry Hinds and each book in the series unfolds an electrifying chapter and adventure and mystery in Paul's life. Similarly, in Blood Flag too, Paul comes face-to-face yet with a new case and a new challenge to win over until this challenge turns life-threatening and deadly, killing off people, Paul cares about.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.”



Ruth Ware, an English author, pens an engrossing and tensed Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" themed thriller in her new book, The Woman in Cabin 10 that narrates the journey of a female travel writer aboard a cruise ship with a handful of other VIP guests who is certain that a murder has been committed on the very ship and that killer as well as the victim might be one of them among the invited guests. Unfortunately, no one resembles the murder victim's description from the guest list and the guests are certain that the travel writer is a paranoid woman.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”




Jonathan LaPoma, an award winning American author, has penned an heart-wrenching and a thoroughly enlightening story about two teachers in his book, Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story that unfolds the story of two twenty-something men trying their luck in the department of teaching in Miami but their journey to educate young minds turns out to be extremely challenging as sex, drugs and alcohol become their escape. But why would two teachers want to escape the world of teaching and education? What is the challenge that is making them stay back?

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.”



Kate Ling, an English author pens a heart-touching and fascinating YA science-fiction in her debut book, The Loneliness of Distant Beings that narrates the story of a young teenager who longs to live life in her own way not by the rules set by the leader of the spaceship that she and her family has been resident of for hundreds of years and will be for the next six hundred years. But the grim and strict orders and rules must be followed by the residents, even though they seem a bit meaningless and disobeying those rules might jeopardize the free existence of the residents.

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Good day my lovely bookish peeps!

Are you having an awesome day? Yes!? Okay that sounds great! I'm also having a great time I got the opportunity to interview so many lovely and talented authors.

It's time for yet another author Q&A session and in this session, I introduce y'all with the fascinating author, Sally Christie, who is here to talk about her historical fiction series, The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy.

So let's not waste any more minutes and let's get down with this author to know more about her lovely books, her life as an author and other non-bookish stuffs.

Keep scrolling peeps!


Read the review of The Sisters of Versailles

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Good Day my fellow bookworms,

Hope y'all are having a great day! I'm back again with a brand new author Q&A session and in today's session, I present you the award-wining author, Bonnie Jo Campbell. Let's welcome her with a big hug! **hugs**

Let's discuss with her about her new book of short stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters and other things which may or may not be bookish. So stay tuned and keep reading!


Read the review of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

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