The Soul Of Books

 The Long Fall By Julia Crouch My Rating: 4/5 Genre: Thriller, Mystery Finished on: 14th Dec, 2020 I'm writing this review almost 2 months after having finished this one. So here's hoping I really do enough justice to it while recalling what all happened in the story, and how I felt about it. Really hoping that. This book was bit of a challenge while picking up, as my sister read few chapters & vowed never to pick it up again. That got me curious, of course. What really happened that my sister now wishes to never read a book again? I don't blame her. Once I started, I did get her point. But, trust me. As I kept going on, I really got hooked to the story and it was difficult for me to put down Because I just wanted to know what even happened? ____________________________________________________ The book was divided into 3 parts. The first had stories of two timelines, one based in 1980 and the other 33 years later, 2013. The second part was entirely based on the past - 1...

 Over The Edge By Suzanne Brockmann My Rating: 4 Genre: Contemporary, Mystery Finished on: 7th Aug, 2020 When I picked up this one, I was very intrigued by the book's description. Senior Chief Stanley (Stan) Wolchonok and Navy Pilot Teresa (Teri) Howe have a very friendly relationship, that is, until they are dragged in a situation where a plane has been Hijacked AND US Senator's daughter is in that plane! A very interesting plot, isn't it?  Here's what my expectations were: the entire story would be about how they are planning/strategising their moves regarding the rescue mission. Listing out the challenges, portraying how grave this mission is, etc etc With a little bit of their love story in between  If only. *facepalm* The story starts with Stan coming to know Teri is being harassed by a guy, and she simply is not able to get that guy off of her. And I'll admit, the way Stan had been handling this situation, and helping Teri in overcoming her fears and helping...

 The Taxidermist's Daughter By Kate Mosse My Rating: 5 Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Finished on: July 19th, 2020 You know sometimes when it happens that you'd want to read a certain kind of book with a certain style of writing, but your heart and mind doesn't know exactly what?  You only realize it when you come across that book.  And for me, this was the one!  It caught my attention right from the very first page. An unusual tradition where people gather at a church, to see the ghost of people who might not survive the coming year.  I did not realize it until later, what did this all mean.  Prologue: April 24th, 1912. Wednesday.  People are gathered at the area near the church. Not much of what happens in this chapter is clear. We only can understand bits and pieces. To be honest, not much of what happens in the entire book is clear, but all the pieces fall into place in the end.  The main protagonist, Constantania (Connie) Gifford follows...

 Cold Heart By Lynda La Plante My Rating: 3 Genre: Mystery Thriller Finished on: June 16th, 2020 Okay.. What genre was this book, mystery? Or Philosophy?  What was the ending even about?  The death of the protagonist herself, Lorraine Page?!?  (Yep, sorry for the spoiler) And that was the "ultimate" punishment of her life?? Philosophy much? There was no proper justice at all, at least not by the end of book anyway.  Okay. Breathe.  I'll come from beginning.  Like any other mystery book, this started off with an interesting note. Somebody dies. There are two three suspects. And then it got SUPER boring when the suspicions were revolving around 3 main people! Kendall, Vallence, Sonja. Poor Cindy dies, Kendall dies and with utter shock we come to know even Raymond Vallence dies!  Not sure why Cindy had to die, I expected something much worse happened with Cindy that she simply let herself get killed by someone else. But by the end we come to know it ...