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#BookReview A Forgotten Affair by Kanchana Banerjee

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A Forgotten Affair is the debut book of author Kanchana Banerjee . It is a romance,drama book published by Harper Collins and is widely available on online stores ,kindle and at the bookstores, published on 25th August 2016. The cover page of the book is very simple and subtle having two flowers which depicts that love is simple and elegant.Though, as compared to other romance novels the cover page is dull but nevertheless it is sweet. The cover page design is by Harper Collins Publishers and cover image is by istock . The  story is set in Mumbai and Gurgaon . The plot of the book is very realistic and simple. It is a story of Sagarika , who walks out of her nine year old marriage and is a victim of Mumbai bomb blasts and goes into coma. After six months she gets up with no memory of her past and meets her husband Rishabh who takes her to an unfamiliar address in Gurgaon. The characters are very interesting , each having some dark past behind. The  author has written the

#BookReview : Dissent by Deepak Kaul

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Dissent  by  Deepak Kaul  is a collection of 11 short stories which is available on kindle. The stories were written for the Write India Campaign by The Times Of India between July 2015 and  May 2016. Prompts for the stories were provided by the young bestselling authors such as Amish Tripathi, Preeti Shenoy , Ashwin Sanghi, Chetan Bhagat and others  for which short stories had to be submitted. The book involves author's submissions for the eleven prompts.  The cover page of the book displays a man walking on a path which is lonely and can be connected with the various stories in the book. The stories are:  Dissent, Hell's Angel, All in, L.C.A, Mirage, Taboo,Void, Queens of Hearts, Love Jihad, Karma Agni, and How Blue is my sapphire. The stories by the author are of  different themes related to society and in each and every story the protagonist is lonely and  suffering. Some of the stories are full of suspense which makes the reader to read it till the end.  However, the

#Book Review Scion Of Ikshvaku (Book 1) Ramchandra Series by Amish Tripathi

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Scion Of Ikshvaku is the first book of Ramchandra Series from the author of Shiva Trilogy , AMISH TRIPATHI . The book is Fictious mythology published by Westland Ltd and is widely available online , kindle and at the bookstores , published on 22 June 2015. The cover page of the book is very beautiful , designed by ThinkWhy Not . It looks historical in which a man is aiming his bow towards a drone or the Pushpak Vimaan. Scion of Ikshvaku is  a modern version of the famous historical epic Ramayana in which the author has brought the history as well as the modern world in a single story. The story is set in various places such as Ayodhya, Mithila etc. The characters are from Ramayana . Ram is the main protagonist of the story ,but is assumed inauspicious to his father Dashrath since birth. The author has introduced all the characters in the beginning of the story. The author has written the book marvelously , giving the details of each incident very nicely and has used vari