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  Starting off where it left, Katniss returns again with the calculations of loss, her revenge as a deranged hermit. After the Quarter Quell, we see a different Mockinjay facing her past and her present altogether while sacrificing her future for Peeta who hasn’t been since they had been taken away. All the districts have been in rebellion and when she walks through her district where everything has changed into ashes, a prominent thing evokes fear yet becomes one of the steps in taking the decision to become the ‘Mockingjay’. Placing a few conditions, the last condition she places is not received with criticism but rather a grin that captures all of them. The further accomplices of hers and different memories revoked by them sets out a poignant sense of survival and seriousness. But when Peeta is rescued by Gale and others, all he does it to grab Katniss’s throat! In the last instalment of Hunger Games, Susanne Collins explores more humanism, emotions, decisions and a pinch of...

  Wounded by a tragedy, tossed and tousled by a few people, Marianna finds herself amongst a group as she leads them as their internally broken psychotherapist. Entering the college she studied following a call, she comes to believe the fact that behind the walls of art and literature laid obsession and the need for something. The murders of whom she had met kept happening through a postcard which makes her run behind it for her cousin, Zoe. A few characters intrigue us and the most intriguing one was the cult head as they call, Edward Fosca who was a father figure to ‘The Maidens’ special group. With eyes burning in anger and finding clues to solve the puzzle, she ends up getting up a postcard herself. This horrific incident rewrites her perspectives on what she had seen and what she makes out of it now. Written by Alex Michaelides, The Maidens is indeed a mixture of mythology, psychology and life after a tragedy. Even though Marianna is involved in psychotherapy or group therapy,...

  ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ is a story which explores the beauty and authenticity of the North Carolina marsh and creature at its best which only adds to its thematic view and imaginative creation. It’s rich with the set and theme Delia Owens has chosen for a reason to justify unknown, prejudiced victims whose daily problems mount to a plethora of them.   Kya has no choice nor does she want to die when she is abandoned by all the people she loves. The choice was just a version of many signs of helplessness and confusion. At a few instances, she allows herself to drown and hide somewhere else. Its humane enough to hide from problems and situations. She chose to live a difficult situation and emerge as a phoenix but fails at a few points which is only fair enough. The writer’s brilliance comes out with a piece where we can relate and Delia Owens justifies it. Through the waters of prejudice and negativity, she rows her round boat according to her life as she starts finding wha...

  “Behind every living soul is a history of life which is inflicted by pain, love, determination, despair and the internal strife to escape!” Goat Days is a story Najeeb, a shepherd who was once a man with dreams of coming back home with enough to live along with his wife, Sainu and his unborn child. Yet, what remained ajar for him was the desolate air of Gulf and the job he was offered which drowned him into the depths he couldn’t see. Written by Benyamin, Goat Days is one of the best pieces of work he has produced, depicting Arab Life, harsh climate, realities and how different it is from the lovely-dovey phase of it. Juxtaposed with contradicting ideas and dreams, he travels with a companion only to meet his darkest destiny which he wasn’t expecting. After all, who expects his/her life to be pure tragedy once they reach the land they thought was flowing with milk and honey? Living as a shepherd, striving through the lashes of the leather belt, he grows into a slave with a mi...

  The sweet and wild fragrance of jasmine evokes memories of a good time just as Sameera Parvin explains her life to Javed who acts as our representative. As the hours pass, the freshness fades to gloom as she explains her life through the conjoined houses and her family. It is indeed tough but her baba with whom she shares a better relationship now, encourages her throughout the book until a tragic event occurs. Just like any foreigner is perceived in a country, she and her family face a setback during the Arabian Spring. She is between a sea and a devil with the sea being the Arabian Spring and the devils being her family who is acquainted with the royals. Being the quiet Radio Jockey contradicting to the quick-witted and intelligent one, she is hurled by different occurrences. Choices are tough for Sameera but once she retrieved herself back, the steps she took seemed to favour her happiness even though she was adamant and skeptical in the beginning. Benyamin’s Jasmine Days ...

  Behold! NSA’s TRANSLTR has encountered a code it can’t break! 13 hours and so on! The secret machine is breaking down! The disaster to their community and work is being run by a machine that can break foreign codes in seconds! It all starts with a mistake but it becomes a further mistake when professionalism and presence of mind turn to personal favours and revenge. Just a phone call away was one of the most intelligent cryptographers and assistant to Commander Trevor Strathmore, Susan Fletcher. When she was canoodling with her dreams and packing to celebrate her anniversary with her beloved, David Becker, the call surprises but shatters her even when the reason is unknown! Their hidden world was about to be exposed and free protection was given to everyone whose emails were encrypted by an agency not miles away. It was just a code away for the whole world to know their secret and create each other’s niche. The Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller that deals with facts and t...