Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

 Breasts and Eggs  By Mieko Kawakami  Published Year: 2008 Page count : 398 pages Medium used : Kindle PW  Genre : Contemporary, Female Body, Artificial Insemination, 2024-read.  Rating : 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The main character is a novelist. She lost her aunt and mother to cancer when she was in her early twenties. She decides to have a child through artificial insemination because she has issues getting intimate with men. This is her experience and story of how she becomes a successful mother finally after attempting multiple times to get pregnant.  I felt the prose is very good. I have come to learn a lot about the issues and concerns that handicap many women. I thought she shed a lot of light on the different aspects of the industry of artificial insemination and how children born that way feel and react when they learn the truth behind their birth.  Do check it out ! 

 A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1) By V.E.Schwab  PUBLISHED YEAR: 2015 PAGE COUNT: 384 pages  Medium used : Paperback  Genre : Fantasy, Magic, Good Prose, Adventure, Action, 2024-read.  Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mind blowing. Head spinning. Wow! V.E.Schwab!! She just knocked off my socks and left me speechless. What an amazing story and amazing amazing world building. I got sucked into the story and didn't want to let up. I read this book really fast because couldn't put it down. It is fast paced and keeps one grooved.  Kell and Holland are the two remaining Antari. Only they can use blood magic and travel between the four different Londons, each in a different universe. These universes are like stacked up on top of each other and journey is only possible from one to the immediately adjacent world. Kell is the hero from Red London which worships magic and where he is raised as one of the royal palace princes. Holland, on the other hand, is from diabolical and dangerous Whit

The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo #1) By Rick Riordan  Published year : 2016 Page count : 360 pages  Medium used : Paperback  Genre : Fantasy, Adventure, Mythology, Ancient Greece, Greek Gods, Modern World, 2024-read.  Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Ancient Gods haven't been wiped away. They have adapted themselves to the modern world. They have chosen their new lairs and still interfere in the affairs of men everyday. They are kept alive by the thoughts of people and what less - the internet!  The book is full of fun, wit and amazing adventures from the start. There is no where an iota of boredom even. There are many characters and I felt it would be difficult to remember all of them but it wasn't necessary. The character evolution - or rather, devolution - of Apollo is very well portrayed. I felt sorry and sad for the character of Meg - of what her step father did to her. The adventures are very funny and the opportune times when Apollo regains his much needed powers felt miraculou

A Wild Sheep Chase By Haruki Murakami  Published Year : 1989  Page count: 289 pages  Medium used : Paperback  Genre : Fantasy, Magical Realism, Adventure, 2024-read.  Rating : 4.5/5  I liked this book very much. I am giving it a 4.5 star rating but I also can understand why it would have an overwhelming number of average ratings. It is exhilarating as much as it is baffling and bordering on boredom. This is the first book I am reading from Murakami which is without any smut and stuck entirely to a core idea. This is also the first book that didn't leave me open mouthed and gazing off into space. I have followed the entire plot, from the beginning to the ending. There are no gray areas for me here. And I liked what I read! So cool!  A man is entrusted to go on a chase after a dream sheep - a sheep with a birth mark star on its back. In Japan, even with fully accountable sheep rearing and raising ,its a herculean task to track this sheep. Not just because it is one out of many and co

 Seige and Storm (Shadow and Bone #2) By Leigh Bardugo  Published year :  Page count: 381 pages  Medium used: Paperback  Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, 2024-read.  Rating : 3/5  A bit underwhelming. Alina's run from the darkling continues. The Darkling's presence and power are subdued by a lot. He should have been named the weakling instead. Alina is stolen and kidnapped, beating the darkling, twice, with him putting only a weak resistance. Alina gets one more trinket made from a sea whip(sea serpent) which she wears like a fetter around her wrist. The combined power of the stag's antlers around her neck and the whip's fetter give an unprecedented amplification to her sun summoning ability. There is one more of these amplification sources - a firebird - which must be hunted down like the two before. I am guessing this is what will occupy the next book in the series.  I felt that the fight scenes and the chase scenes are a bit dry. They could have been better described. A lo

 Children of Dune  By Frank Herbert ( Dune #3) Published Year: 1976 Page count: 448 pages  Medium Used: Kindle Paperwhite  Genre : Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Dune World, Melange Spice, 2024-read.  Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic. Stands up to the classic status of Dune Series. The book in which the fall of the Messiah Paul Atriedes' Muad Dib empire happens. And another by Leto II takes the universe into a supposed golden era for all!  Paul has walked off into the desert, after going blind, to escape from his visions of the fall of his empire. In his stand, his sister Alia assumes a God-like status and addicted to melange spice, she becomes an abomination. She is born with all the memories of all her ancestors and in her weakness and state of despair, let's them take control of her consciousness. Paul and Chani's children, Leto II and Ghanima are left in her protection and they also possess all the memories of their ancestors. They master the art of control better than their