Fire chars. Fire kills.Fire has a prana that only steals. When you see fire, running would be dire. For a burn from fire would never heal.’Kusha read it aloud once from The Book Of Prana ¬written by Anonymous I wanted to give a long and good review on this book, which I'll do later. This book deserves it. I just couldn't help it write this point. So many times while reading this book I just wanted to stop and sit and marvel at what I just read, and then I wanted to talk about it with someone,...

“Sometimes, there are those people whose voices are so strong, you just do what they say. You hold their glasses or keep their purses or buy them dinner because they ask you to do it out of the blue. You don’t ponder if you want to do it or not. Because they don’t give you the time to think. Then, you end up doing it, for you’re too much in the present limbo ...”A science-fiction fantasy with a mesmerizing voice and lyrical writing that draws out some mesmerizing characters into life. Don’t forg...

You will never have a voice that deserves to speak if you have a mind full of filthy bigotry and misogyny. If you still live in a world where you let your women to be the slaves at your home, if you still live in where you shout at your women to cover their bodies because you just can't fight the oppressors, if you can't have a conversation with women without being a dumb from Stone Age living in the caves, if whenever you open your mouth it's only garbage coming out and it shows that it's full ...

I understand that many people who read this book are going all about how cool its characters are, how well-built and real they feel, how perfectly they develop bit by bit over time. I totally understand them. People are also saying about its plot that how craftily the author manages to put the story arcs and all the beats at exactly the right places, and how well they manage to touch the reader emotions. I totally get you guys all.But…You know what I think?I think people don’t get to those craft...

Sometimes, confidence depends on who you’re competing with. Sometimes, confidence depends on you realizing your opponents are not stronger than you. Sometimes, confidence is about how you view others. The realm outside the walls gives her that sort of confidence. I am officially declaring myself a fan of this series with this incredible set of characters and such an adorable, respectable protagonist with such an intriguing mind. I read The High Auction before. It had stunning prose. I...

So, my sister always gives me the last moment's manuscript to critique. Because in the end, whatever her dozens of critiques might leave out because of being polite and too nice, I would not. I'm currently reading the first third of the manuscript. And this is the first time I didn't skim through a past-moment scene--a backstory:“There are three kinds of sins among humans,” Master said decades ago. “One kind: Humans love to do it, and it hurts only them. The second kind, well, that’s just a litt...

His eyes usually look tired and blurred during these times, like an old man’s eyes should when they boringly gaze at anything in the world. Ninety-nine years should be enough to turn the world boring.But tonight, the Monk’s eyes look energetic—full of prana, to be precise. They look like those old times, the times when he used to get excited, finding something interesting, something new, something he never saw before. And then, he would go after it with sparkling eyes. To be exact, he would g...

I received a hardcover review copy with a sign and an "Old City Mail" seal. I asked the author what she wrote. It definitely looks Bengali, and it looks beautiful. The pages are so textured and hyper cream. It definitely looks like sketch paper. I'm guessing it's a special edition..I'm in love with every chapter. I'm still awed at the fact that she writes every chapter like a first chapter of a book. I mean seriously, anyone who reads from any middle chapter in the book will end up being curious...

People can accept strange things as long as others are doing it too. Is this a spirituality book? No. Is this a religious book? No. Does this book convince the readers about some sorta belief? Definitely no. Then what do you mean this book is convincing? Morons, it means that its pages convince the readers to keep reading until it ends. That’s the only convincing a reader needs when s/he picks a f***ing fantasy book. You don’t need to learn something when you read a book; you don’t need to c...

1. The ArchaeologistIT’S A LAUGHABLE LOCK—ONE that you would use only to guard a graveyard. Not that anyone would trouble themselves invading a timber hut in a mangrove forest farther away from the Bay of Bengal. Still, how can someone live with a lock like that? Made of ancient iron, reeking of rust. It would need a primordial key to be twisted and turned, going through several moments of mechanical trouble until the old lock opens. Good luck if you can do that without breaking the key.Oh! The ...