Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

The Glass Hotel (2020)  By Emily St. JOHN Mandel  Rating 5/5  Genres : Fantasy, Contemporary,  Fiction  276 pages ( Kindle digital edition )  Funny in a non funny sort of a way. A close knit of people dragged into a case of ponzi scheme that crashed with the 2008 financial market..Johnathan at the helm of it and all his associates .. how it unraveled and what happened to the involved people after he got convicted. Some commit suicide,  some end up in jail like him,  some walk out without a penny in their pockets. The style of writing is very prosaic and moving.. there is hilarity even in places where it is not to be expected.  Liked the book very much!

 Song of Kali  By Dan Simmons Rating : 2.75/5 Genres : supernatural, theology, dark fiction, fiction, mystery, suspense, 2021-read.  This book is extremely gripping - till the end. But I couldn't give it more than what rating I have given it. Why? First, it had me simmering with rage and there is more than one scene which left me cringing - the author is outright blasphemous in using curse words against the deity and over blowing/exaggerating about his experiences in India. Second, I think he is confused between - kali, the demon who defines the age of kali vs Kaali the goddess who is known as all powerful. I had to remind myself that this is not a memoir but only a work of fiction. It felt like a slowly unwinding nightmare. This work of Dan Simmons beats many of the recent works of Stephen King - in horror and in touching the morbid, graphic violence, grisly ideas too deep.  The narrator is a writer and he gets commissioned to obtain a manuscript of p...

 The Two Towers by J.R.R.Tolkein  (Lord Of The Rings series book #2) Genres: Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Hobbits, Wizards, Giants, 2021-read, reviewed, awesome read.  Rating 5/5 😍🥳 Whew! "I loved it" would be an understatement for this great classical work by Tolkein!! I found this book smoother, swifter and even better - if that's even possible - than the first part. ✌ I wish hobbits are not a fictitious lot - but that they truly exist and I come across them in reality. Ahh, I know. It's wishful thinking. Hobbits - like rabbits - are harmless, simple minded, meek, short and stout people who are content to live in their holes underground surrounded by greenery, singing their tales of lore, feasting and merry making. Tolkein takes them into the mouths of danger and gives them shades of chivalry even perhaps they were not aware of. Bilbo baggins is something of a legend for adventure and bravery in the Shire but this book shows all the hobbits have somethi...