The Curse To Ashwathama

by Neeraj Bharti

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Pub Date Jan 05 2020 | Archive Date Jan 31 2020

Neeraj Bharti | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Thakur Pratap Singh is a generous and well-respected chieftain of a village named Ratnagiri. Sahil, his son, returns to Ratnagiri from college after winning the annual rifle collegiate championship. His girlfriend, Mandana, accompanies him to the village. He has a lot of fun in the company of his childhood friend, Preeti, and his mother, Vidya.

However, soon, Sahil finds out about the dark, hidden reality of what is going on in Ratnagiri. In a shocking disclosure, he discovers the grisly trade of organ trafficking that has gripped the village all these years. To feed their trade, a group of veiled men has been attacking and kidnapping innocent villagers. They then dump their maimed corpses on the outskirts after ripping their organs out of them.

In an unusual turn of events, Sahil joins the perpetrators of this horrific crime. But things get complicated when Khan, an honest police officer, joins the probe to nab the culprits in a game of cat and mouse. Filled with deceit, this story of a love triangle does include an encounter with a yeti that would glue the readers to their seats.

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EDITION	Ebook
ISBN	9781734162707
PRICE	$11.99 (USD)

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Merril A, Reviewer

I was pretty good till the end of the story but the end of the book completely broke me and I think it was perhaps the onions that was making me teary eyed. This book had been on my TBR for almost a year now and in a frantic rush to meet my goodreads challenge I picked the book and mentally smacked myself for not picking it up before. Let me warn you that this book is very heavy on emotions and it just messes with your heart especially towards the end.

Let me begin with what disturbed me or what kind of didn't work for me in the book first so that we get out the unsavoury part first. I am usually not a fan of the dialogue styled conversation in books because I find it very distracting and hard to follow while tracking who is speaking the lines. So that is an individual taste thing so yeah that was one thing that kind of made me feel, stopped the book from reaching perfection. The other being the fact that the book kind of goes surface bound in its style of narration. It glides through the events one by one but I felt it didn't went a bit deeper into these events. The book also had some actually chess moves in between the story. Like literal game screenshots which took quite a few portion that I kept wondering what exactly was it offering to the story in general. Also Had the narration been a bit more poised and deeply invested in the events the result would have a very intense and emotional read.

Believe me the book is still pretty intense and jostles pretty bad but the narration is kind of quick and fast but then again so much is happening in the book that I think it shouldn't hamper your experience with the story

Now lets talks about the good part. Hands down its the very plot itself. It goes through so much of twists and turns that you simply can resist yourself from wanting to know what comes next. There are so many mind games and domino effects in play that it makes it one hell of an adrenaline rush.

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