Dear Reader, Two years have passed in quick succession since this author discovered the Bridgerton series. What with a plague running rampant and a show released on the books, one wonders what the greater evil is. While most might argue the widespread death in wake of the plague is definitely the greatest evil to beat, […]

This is Sabaa Tahir’s foray into the real world. She moves from Ember to the reality of All My Rage and she brings the emotion with her. I read this in a single sitting and that is telling enough. Told from the point of three characters and moving through past and present, All My Rage […]

This review will contain spoilers for ‘The Henna Artist’ Alka Joshi has officially become an instant-buy author for me. I adore her writing and I love her characters. I’d like to thank Harper Collins for sending me an ARC of The Secret Keeper of Jaipur! Set twelve years after the events of The Henna Artist, […]

So after A Sky Beyond The Storm I’ve been a bit depressed. My most anticipated read of the year didn’t pan out and Goodreads told me my average book ratings this year were around a 3.6. So it’s basically been an average reading year. At any rate my go to in these sort of depressed […]

The immensities of the past often fall like water upon our shoulders. The burden too heavy for us to carry and so while some things soak into you skin and memory, others form forgotten puddles on the meandering roads of history. They lie there, a dip of stories that more often than not no one […]

I have been born and raised in Delhi. It’s a city of contradictions. Here the magic of Mughlai history is paradoxical to the dirty streets and gol-gappa vendors that you know hold the chance of painful food poisoning within the teekha paani. It’s messy and polluted, and steeped in an array of cultures all while […]

Here’s the thing about Paris. It’s been written about a thousand times over with the air of elusive romance that even lovers steeped in flirtations sigh about. So when you go in with a cynical nose upturned, ready to find a city that’s been oversold, be prepared to be disappointed, because Paris is everything that’s […]