Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

The Gone World  By Tom Sweterlitsch (2018) 365 pages (kindle digital edition)  Genres : Science Fiction,Thriller, Time Travel, Dystopian Fiction  Rating : 4/5 😍😋 Edit : Writing this review I understood how incredibly complex this story is .. to be explained in a few short sentences .. making for an abridged version of the plot. This is a mixture of both science fiction (involving time travel, space travel) and crime thriller.  Not a typical crime detective story or science fiction, this story has got a 'feel' to it .. that felt very much like a "soul". The character development is good - especially the main character. We get to see how immensely stubborn and iron willed the main character Shannon can be in the face of repeated crisis not leaving the consequences to chance.  Its an amazing portrayal of an alternative reality where time and space travel is authorized for agents of military who leverage it for solving criminal cases. Shannon Moss is an agent of t...

Gravity  by Tess Gerritsen #books #reviews #suspense #scifi #thriller My Rating : 5/5 😃🥰 Awesome! Loved it! At times felt the handicap of not being familiar with all the medical and technical jargon being thrown around but otherwise a very perfect fit into the kind of books that click with me. :D Space exploration .. add to it a tinge of selfless love and also throw into the mix  pathological viruses with a 100 percent mortality rate .. it makes for a sleep foregoing, eye riveting thriller that kept me awake all night last night.  Getting into the plot line, a space mission aboard International space station goes awry when one by one all the scientists onboard start dying due to a virus that absorbs the DNA of its host into its own genome and propagates, thrives, profligates. Where did this virus come from? How to fight it into remission? How does a physician Jack save his wife Emma who is infected with the virus and is fighting it as a sole survivor on the space statio...

Dasara (2023)  Telugu on Netflix  Rating 8/10 😇😁 This is a story that shows God helps those who help themselves. Its a story where  action takes victory over crippling sense of fear and propels even the weaker ones against overpowering odds to win.  This movie can be impeding to some people due to much of gore and violence - for which it has an A rating - which made it all the more   realistic and raw. Loved Nani and Keerthy Suresh in every frame they appeared in. Some actors chase after commercial and glamorous roles .. but these two have chosen this film to push themselves and give themselves the test of passionate acting. They will go far and hope they both bag many many awards for this movie.  Coming to the story .. The movie is shot in the singareni coal mines of Telangana. Vennela(Keerthy Suresh) and Suri(Deekshith Shetty) love each other from their childhood. They get married and Suri gets killed on the night of their wedding. This is a ploy b...