Thursday, January 8, 2015

Reader's Review # 2 | That Frequent Visitor


Just finished reading the book and I'm left speechless. It is a great plot and definite page turner.
Thanks to the author Hari Kumar, I'm happy to see books like these coming up that gives an impartial perspective towards politics, media, mind set of Indian youth and activists in general. Big salute for tribute. Without many Richard Baxters this great nation wouldn’t (will not) get people like Lavanya Ghosh Baxter and Shiuli. It is sad that still women have to deal with such devilish acts on them.

I loved all the characters and the way they are portrayed. I can see that great effort has been to put on to balance between the fact and fiction. Thanks for introducing us the great women from all generations (Lavanya, Pakhi and Sooli(Shiuli) :D ).

How apt it was that the great angel Mother Teresa is bring into the picture. 

I'd like to know the significance of highlighting 'Q' in the cover. And also wanna know if it is mere coincidence or planned event that a tsunami book like this got released exactly 10 decades after the actually tsunami.

Except for little discrepancies here and there, it is a worthy read and I would definitely recommend it. 
Goes into my favorites list and my first read of the year… :) 

Great message from the book - courage and will are the two great gifts a woman could wish for. 


Source - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1138337710?book_show_action=false&page=1


Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Reader's Review # 1

"I liked the story and I needed lot of patience to sit through the first fifty or so pages, but after that it’s a tsunami!"

That Frequent Visitor - Reader's Review 1

Review by Tiah Mist on Amazon.com

First things first, I bought this book because of the cover. It looked like a creepy horror story and I would not miss such books. But when I started reading, it did not look anything like horror. It had a gloomy element in the beginning and soon there were some fantasy elements, but I was not getting anything horror like until the second half. It’s true, the writer takes a long time in establishing the horror elements, but given the way he has developed the story, I think the timing is worth it. 

The moment horror begins, the thrill factor simply won’t stop and before you know you are totally on all fours to find out the mystery behind the horror. That Frequent Visitor is a story narrated by an Englishman’s ghost to a young Anglo Indian girl called Shiuli. This story is set up in the colonial period of British India and we get to see lot of interesting facts about the period ranging from the World War 1 to granting of independence to India. But those are just the backdrop; the real story is about a psycho legend who spells doom upon whoever breaches his property. At times, it is kind of typical plot but then the author hari kumar uses so many varying literary devices and facts that the story hardly seems like fiction. 

I liked the story and I needed lot of patience to sit through the first fifty or so pages, but after that it’s a tsunami! 

Read Review on Amazon Kindlestore http://www.amazon.com/review/R3J2OI7MJCFX4M/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00PWUCG82

 That Frequent Visitor: BUY NOW