Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

Girl in Pieces By Kathleen Glasgow Published Year : 2016 Page Count : 400 pages Medium : Paperback Genre : Psychological Fiction,Self Harm, Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse, Addiction, 2023-read. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Take  I finished this book with a smile playing on my lips, silent tears of happiness and joy streaming down my cheek. I wasn’t prepared for this emotional roller coaster. I had to take occasional breaks to handle the turmoil this story was stirring in me. I got very invested in the character and the narrative is vivid, cinematic,very descriptive. The story focuses on the lives of people who feel overwhelming emotional disappointments and powerless to handle them, inflict self harm in the form of cutting or burning themselves. This act makes them forget the pain and gives them a high for a while. This story holds a candle of hope for people going through similar experiences and shows them that there can be a silver lining behind the obstructing void and darkness. I found it ve

  The The Institute By Stephen King Published Year : 2019 Page Count : 570 Medium : Paperback Genre : Contemporary, Science Fiction, Horror, Paranormal Fiction, Thriller, Children, Child Abuse, Child experiments,2023-read. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantabulous. Mind blowing. Very heart warming and refreshing despite dealing in subjects of child abuse and exploitation. Reinstates Stephen King as a master story teller and a genius in orchestrating a spectacular thriller. He has an uncanny ability to channel the inner voices of children and not only make the reader empathize with them but root for them from the bottom of their heart. This is a book with children in lead characters. They do some brave, unbelievable,fantastic feats and as surreal as they might be, the story is so engrossing, magical – we believe in them anyway. Children who are born with some special capabilities are kidnapped and secreted away in a remote place called the Institute. They are fed on drugs to boost their psychic po

A Court of Thorns and Roses By Sarah J Mass ( 2015) Series : A Court of Thorns and Roses#1 Published : 2015 Genre : Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Faeries, Mortality. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a brilliant book! What a captivating read! Sarah J Maas has propelled herself into the cohort of my favorite authors with this shining jewel. Never have I been so shocked out of my wits or had my breath completely knocked out. I just couldn’t get through to the next page without gasping and my heart pounding. Humans. Magical Faeries. Evil witches. Spellbinding potions. Ancient curses. Eternal love. Irresistible attraction and seduction. Life altering games. What is there not to like ? What is there not to swoon over? There is not a ounce of boredom in this triangle love story and battle for freedom. This is fantasy at its best! A war almost 500 years ago between faeries and humans .. their lands segregated to east and west. Fearies are split into seven kingdoms each ruled by a high lord. A hundred years

Please find my review here :  The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 

 Find the review at the following link.  https://sravikabodapati.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/ancillary-justice-ann-leckie-book-review/

 The Woman in the Window  By A.J.Finn (2018) (430 pages Kindle Digital Edition) Genre : Contemporary, Fiction, Thriller, Psychological Fiction, Suspense,Detective, Mystery,Child abuse,Alcoholism.  Rating : 5/5 😀😀😀😀😀 Simply superb! Loved it! Wish I had picked this sooner! One in its own class! 🥰🥰 Translated into over 40 languages and millions of copies sold worldwide! A major motion picture from Fox, available on Netflix! Eager to watch Amy Adams and Julian Moore blow my mind! Will check this out.😀😇 A child psychologist,Anna Fox,has experienced severe trauma and is reduced to stay indoors with doors locked and shutters closed shut . She is suffering from Agoraphobia - fear of open spaces and crowded places. No one visits her except her psychiatrist and aerobic trainer. No one calls her except her distant, separated husband and daughter. Her day is split between watching black and white movies on repeat, excessive drinking, online chatting and snooping on her neighbors (like the

 Helen of Troy  By Margaret George (2006) (800 pages Kindle Digital Edition) Rating : 2/5  Genres : Historical,  Mythology,  Greeks, Trojan war. WARNING!!! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PIECE OF DESPICABLE WORK !!  The worst book on the Trojan war I have come across!! 🤢🤢🤢 I stopped reading and decided to shelve this at 50 percent of the book.(I am glad I didn't splurge money on buying a hardcopy like I initially intended to!)  It is an understatement to say that I am just disappointed! I feel cheated and played. I had such high hopes for this! Having read her 'Memoirs of Cleopatra', I wanted to get dragged hopelessly into the world of ancient Greece and get a new look at this most retold old tale. Such books are like fiction within fiction - because the existence of Helen and the occurrence of Trojan War could have been artistic creations of Homer. The intricate details within the story are the added speculation,fantasy - adding layers and putting pieces of puzzle together. This i

 If We Were Villains  By M.L.Rio (2017) (428 pages Paperback) Genre : Coming-of-age, Contemporary, Shakespeare, Drama, Murder Mystery, Suspense , Playacting. Rating : 4/5 😃😃 The scenes are very vivid and brilliantly descriptive - they unfold before the eyes of the reader and the characters jump to life, out of paper. The emotions are raw and visceral. The story and the plot brought back visuals from 'The Secret History'by Donna Tartt and 'The Shawshank Redemption' by Stephen King. I thoroughly enjoyed both the books and the fondness is replicated here. I couldn't put the book down. I wanted to rip asunder the mystery and get to the bottom of the drama.  The main characters of the play/story are the seven fourth year theater art students of Dellacher University. The main focus of their curriculum is to learn, memorize and enact the various Shakespeare plays. The tightly knit friends become obsessed with these plays and of the Shakespearean characters. They personif