Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  (Harry Potter #8) (A Play) By JK Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany  A new play by Jack Thorne  Published Year: 2016 Premiered  Page Count: 326 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre : Alternate Reality, Time Travel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Sorcery, 2025-read,Harry Potter.  Rating : 4/5  What I liked about this book?   I liked how easy it felt reading. How fast my reading went. That could be explained by the fact that the target audience for this book are people way younger than me. The plot logic doesn't hold much complexity - atleast not too much for me to fathom at this point.  The first books I read, almost 18 years ago - the books that introduced me to the world of fiction are Harry Potter books. My brother gifted them to me on the occasion of our high school graduation. And I cherished the series very much back then. But most of the story and the plot line, I forgot now. Picking ...

 Regretting You  By Colleen Hoover  Published Year:  Page Count: 346 pages  Medium Used: Kindle PW  Genre : Romance, Teenage, Contemporary Fiction,2025-read.  Rating : 5/5  Wow. Hoover can write. She had my complete attention while reading this book. The prose is great. The pacing is fast. I tried to jot down some points I didn't like about this story but I couldn't come up with many. Unlike most romance novels, this one doesn't have too much smut or overt sexuality. I am secretly thankful for that. When I was reading Verity by Hoover, the too many sexual descriptions had me cringing and nauseated. They were a big turn off for me. But this story has not one but two romantic tracks going on.. and strangely its mother and daughter .. and there is no smut in it. I am amazed. I also liked the maturity which the mother attains alongside her daughter when both their trust and faith are at crossroads. I felt there is too much crying and raw emotional dis...

 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World  By Elif Shafak  Published Year: 2019 [Viking] Page Count: 303 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Istanbul, Prostitution, 2025-read.  Rating : 2.5/5  I felt the story and narration get a tad boring at times in the middle of the book. I also felt that the author could have taken more time to establish an emotional connection between the main character and her reader. Things - unfortunate, abusive - are happening to her and there is only apathy from my side because Leila, the main character, comes off as detached - that she couldn't or wouldn't be bothered by those odious things. The political, anarchist/leftist angle that the author tried to briefly introduce with the husband of Leila felt superficial. It only felt like a interjection, that was made to fill the space and make more complicated, in an otherwise non-political book.  And Leila doesn't act or think like a prostitute, ...