I am finally revisiting this book after years. Mainly because I finally want to read the sequel. I first read this in 2013, and I wasn’t too familiar with how to find out when the sequel would be arriving. The cliffhanger this book ends with me gutted me, so many years later once all three […]

Sabaa Tahir has officially destroyed me. Let me start by saying, that I’ve been waiting for A Reaper at the Gates for about a year, since I read Torch in May 2017. And I have now finished Reaper in three hours on my first ever solo girls trip in Europe on a train from the […]

I adore faerie stories. The possibilities seem endless and yet in our own ways we have demarcated rules of their world. Whether these rules have come from fae yet to be discovered or books of the old I will never know, but the idea of the fae world has always enchanted me. This book is […]

So personally, Hans Christian Anderson is just not a writer I look to for happy endings, especially after he turned the mermaid into sea foam at the end. When I’m five it’s not the story I was looking for. And Disney kind of screwed it up for me with the whole giving up of the […]

How much of our stories are written before we are alive, before we are born before we are even conceived? How much of our future is written in stone and how much of it dependent on the choices that we are to be faced with? What does it mean to know that all the great […]

There has been so much hype over this book and frankly, I just don’t understand why. To me it was a slow read. It wasn’t horrible, but it just wasn’t good. It was the sort of book I’d read while doing something else, or listening to really good music. It’s not a book I’d read […]

I was sucked into this book within seconds. Just reading the first few lines had shivers running through my entire body. And I was right to be. Because this book is one of the best contemporary fiction/romance books out there. While it lacks the historic aspects of ‘The Shadow Lines‘ it matched it in every […]

I love fantasy. It’s therapeutic, to be able to transpose myself into a new world. Peter and The Starcatchers written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is a fantastic retelling of Peter Pan in historic London and the seven seas. It is such an amazing story that despite being more a middle school book, it […]

Everyone who knows me knows how interested I am in studying the Partition of India. (Read the pieces I wrote for my high school newsletter here and here.) It’s one of the biggest woes to me that we’ve lost so much culture by tearing the country apart, so many lives, so many stories. But Aanchal […]

So around 8 years ago I travelled to the west coast of the United States of America with my mother. And it was there that I discovered the beautiful entity that is Barnes and Nobles. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen. Rows upon rows of books and a seating area where we […]