Inner Confines

Just A Few Lies by Sandeep Sharma My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Blurb - Understanding Writer’s mind is a complicated thing. He imagines, presumes and sometimes anticipates the reality and tries to blend with fiction. He is someone who stays in stories much more than in reality. His mind is full of giant maze but what happens when maze starts to peep out of imagination and enter the reality? Anant, a bestselling ‘Superstar’ author is feeling that words have started to betray him and that’s why he starts to search for the ‘next Anant’ and be involved in the making of the next superstar. Mystically, one day he reads Sagarika’s blog and gets amazed to know that all her blog posts are inspired from real life incidents of Anant himself. On the other hand, Anant’s problem of having hallucinations about random things is coming back in his life. Earlier those hallucinations were totally strange but now even those hallucinations make sense. What exactly is happening with Anant? Who th...

The Highway Man By J. Alchem My Rating - 5/5 Blurb - The whole world is upside down. People are walking in the sky with the ground moving above their heads. And the reason is simple; a bestselling author is in love. But why the whole world is inverted? What's so special about this love? Or worse? A man throws his masculine brain and heart aside and fixes a feminine one there. And the reason is simple; he wants to live the life of his lover, for 24 hours. But why does he want to do that? What's the need? A man, neatly dressed in a suit, is playing with his bowler hat, on a highway at dawn. And the reason is simple; he needs a lift. But why does he need a lift? What's his purpose? My View - The Highway Man by J Alchem is an collection of three short stories with gripping plot blended with emotions it makes the read more interesting and tempting. The author's writing style is simple with blending of multiple emotions like love, happiness, relation...

Messed Up! But All for Love by Arvind Parashar My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Blurb - Neil is a senior executive working with a leading brand name and his wife Gauri is a dentist running her own clinic. They are a loving and doting young married couple, living a life of comfort in posh suburban Gurgaon. Neil's fitness consultant Srinya seems to be stirring some trouble in their lives, though. Drishti is a TV news anchor and journalist and her husband Somesh, a top cop. They are bored of their mundane busy lives, until a chance meeting with Neil and his friends in Cuba that changes everything. To add sanity and madness to their lives are the funny and mysterious set of friends - Tom, Jerry, James, Mehr and Antriksha. The havoc ensues when Drishti gets abducted and Neil is framed for it. Gauri finds out some bitter truths and leaves Neil. But what really is the truth? When facts finally surface, we will know how much these lives are Messed Up! But All for Love. My...

Sick of Being Healthy by Monisha K. Gumber My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Blurb - "Tara, a young teenager is blessed with a little bit too much of health for her own good. Desperate to get the guy of her dreams, she ends up playing a very dangerous game- a game that could cost her friendship, her peace of mind and even her life ! Actually that's an exaggeration but yes, she does make some serious blunders in her quest for a perfect body to impress her one true love. Can she do it an d is it all really worth it? Welcome to her world and discover her inspiring journey towards real health and happiness, meet her stunning high achiever best friends and her parents who never seem to be satisfied. Let down by her own sister and under constant pressure to do well in studies, she learns how to fight her confidence and self-esteem issues and emerge a winner in the end." My view -      "For all complex questions - there are answers. Simple, straight and pro...

Turning Back Time by Shravya Gunipudi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - When people we love pass away, they only take their presence with them. They leave their memories with us. The story revolves around ‘Alia’, an emotionally distant woman, and how the lives of four elderly strangers impact her own very deeply, bringing about a change in the way she treats herself and those around her. But as the clock begins to tick and they each start to die, leaving their stories behind for her to learn from, she finds that the depression and trauma caused by their loss have left with her the gift of a lifetime... Realisation. In the tale of life, death and the ride in between, where there are always mistakes and never second chances, there is only one question. Can you make it through without regrets? My view -      " If I Had the chance to turn back time, then I would go tell everyone that I loved them because to me, that is the most wonderful...

DeAttached by Ram Joshi My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blurb - "Not everyone is meant to walk together, but true love always leads to the path of freedom and timeless bliss."  Olivia, a traveler blog writer, left shaken when she returned back from her Europe trip. Olivia's mother, Meera claimed she lied all these years about the death of Olivia's father, Rahil.  Dazed with all the new information Meera revealed, Olivia failed to distinguish if it was true or just an illusion of Meera's ill mind - as doctors indicated the possibility that a person with Alzheimer's might have hallucinations.  To find out the truth was as crucial for Olivia as for Meera's treatment.  DeAttached - Two tales at the same point in time unfolds the story of a woman who failed in her relations, happiness in marriage that last long, eternal freedom of a man who never did fly out of his cage, and a journey to live a life of purpose." My view -      ...

A Symphony of Chance Encounters by Sayujya Sankar My rating: 4 of 5 stars "A man is not the words he writes. A man is not the places he visits. A man is not the songs he listens to. A man is the solitude of his thoughts, his desires, his anxieties. As am I." A Symphony of Choice Encounters is Mesmerizing! from an aspiring writer Sayujya, Book consists of 20 different short stories and poems overall. Each of them portraits the emotions of human during various stages of life. Her writing style is unique connected all the stories and poems with the music or silence. Even the silence have a music in it, how many of them noticed it. How many of them noticed what happening around in surroundings and absorbs it. Author have that skill which reflects in her words. An love, friendship, suspense, thriller, feminism, motivation, hope and unusual stories with melodious touch of author with enriched vocabularies and distinct narrating way. Among all two of my fav...

Sensation of a Soul by Jyoti Patel My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - In spite of their contrasting personas, two people gets conjoined and manifests that true love stories never have finales; and a women's fingers flings away from the keypad at the very instant of reading startling news. A man founds himself standing in silence amidst of talks, unable to react to love of his life. A couple never praises each other until someday; and a guy always prefers to look up at the sky and think enormously about his darling's life and death. There are some of the sorrowful and amiable poetries and thought provoking stories. The affecting poems and captivating stories in this book share the theme of relationship, adoration, passion, love, hope, faith, desire, dreams and life. The inner meanings are even deeper than the words used in this splendid and awe-inspiring book. Sensation of a soul is sure to touch hearts of many readers; and brings out the best moments of one's life ...

Jim Morgan and the Seven Sins by Bharat Madan " Choices make a man commit a sin. Choices make a man suffer. Man makes the choice and choice makes the man." Jim Morgan And The Seven Sins by Bharat Madan, is an amazing fast thrill packed book with a very new kind of plot and storyline. It states various stages and sins causes by humans. The 304-pages moved out so quickly with hidden secrets. The author had connected all the dots perfectly without even giving a small hint of what happens next. The urge to know what will happens next glued me till last. The story is all about how Jim Morgan an bestselling author find out his seven past life sins and connect it with present to live the remaining days peacefully. The narration of author is classy, even with small introduction to characters he make to imagine it easily. With two parallel timelines past and present he makes it so easier to read. The connections between seven sins (Pride, Wrath, Envy, Greed, Sl...