Black & Blue - Book Review

Nowadays I read books but put off writing the review. But when I got this book as a win in an instagram give away hosted by Penguin Books, India, I made up my mind to finish off the book and do the review without delay.

This book by James Patterson with Candice Fox .The cover says 'stories at the speed of life' and ;'Impossible to stop reading.All killer, no filler'.So by now you must be aware of how the story would go!

It is a really quick read and I finished this book with an hour and a half. The chapter are small and is quite a page turner.

The story takes place in Sydney where detective Harriet Blue works in the Sex Crime Unit.  She is handling the case relating to the Georges River killer, a notorious and elusive serial killer.

She is called upon to a crime scene where she finds out that she is 'teamed' with Tate Barnes popularly known as Tox.He is not welcome anywhere in the department and anyone who teams with him is committing a career suicide! There are all sort of rumors that are being circulated where it is made known that he killed a mother and her son at the age of 6 and yet he is roaming free and worst of all working with the Police Department!

He is also known to have some crude forms of investigation and Blue is forced to work with him. This irritates her a lot and she shares her feelings with her brother Sam.

The case that looks like the Georges River Killer is getting nowhere but then she finds new clues to get to the criminal and the evidences lead to a lady called Hope who is on a yatch and the dead girl is the friend of Hope.

Tox and Blue solve the case and she becomes the hero by catching Hope. But Hope is not the  Georges River Killer[GRK] and when she hears the name of the real GRK, she is shocked and so are we!!!

What I liked about this book:

• It is  a really quick read and fast paced.
• There are no lengthy descriptions about the background of the characters but just enough to get to know them.
• The plot is simple and you are not side lined anywhere in between with unwanted details.
• The narration is a little different. One is through the voice of Detective Blue and the other is that of the author..

Yes, I likes the Book Shots and hope to add a few more to my collection.

Go grab this book if you like thrillers and have a couple of hours to while away. You will not be disappointed with it.....

This goes to the Color Coded Challenge for the color - Blue and to the Full house Challenge, where I am crossing off - Color name in title.

June 2016 - Book Haul

For once I am on time to post the book haul!! This month this was all I shopped for. There is this huge book expo going on and I picked up the Stieg Larsson books,Breaking dawn was something I was looking out for since last December when I picked up the first 3 books in that series and The Goldfinch.The weight loss book came as a part of the purchase from a gift card.And the Black and Blue was a win from one of the Instagram giveaways by Penguin books India.

    

The above is a screen shot of the books on kindle cloud....


Total books this month - 73
E-books - 60
How much I paid - 600/- for the books at the expo.

May 2016 - Book Haul

May was another busy month, yet I read quite a bit and got a lot of books too.

This is the current status in my Kindle cloud - 1300 books!!! And believe me, all these were got free of cost!! I regularly download ebooks from a few sites.Check out this post on how to get ebooks for free..

Total books - 20 [16+2,awaiting another 2 from a giveaway]
Ebooks - no idea!!
Read from the purchase -1


Happy Browsing....

April 2016 - Book Haul

April went on so quickly because of the kids were at home and I found very little time to pursue blogging. The books that I got in April are very less compared to the other months and I do not blame the kids vacation for this :)

So here is what I got in April...

This one came through a giveaway...

Total books - 7
Read- 2

Until next post...

March 2016 - Book Haul

This post is way too late. Yet I don't want to let it go by unnoticed.In March I got a whole bunch of books ,thanks to a couple of gift coupons that came my way...

Apart from that I got these two books in a give away!!!

Total books for March - 12.

Until next post...

February 2016 - Book Haul

After the huge haul of January, I wanted to restrict the buying.

The first book here came for review and you can read about it here...

 

The promotional sales, tempted me yet again and I gave in!

This one, I won in a giveaway.Yayyy!!!

These were on sale online and came at a throwaway price. How could I resist!!

The last book was the one that was in my wishlist for long. So now I have 4 books from this series. Need one more to complete it...

 

The folks at paper boat drinks are really sweet They sent in this illustrated book which my kiddo loves!

That is all for Feb,folks..

Deliberate Sinner, The - Book Review

This book has been on my shelf for quite a while and I thought it would be a good read for the alphabet D in the Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge. Take a look at the other books that I have read for the various challenges here.

This is a debut novel from Bhaavana Arora published in 2014.The story is about a rich, beautiful,self determined and free spirited girl - Rihana.

Rihana's parents are rich and she is the only child who goes on a trip to Thailand all alone and meets a guy - Veer, who also happens to be her close friend Raj's friend!!

Things click off and Veer proposes and both the families make arrangements for the wedding and just after the engagement, Rihana feels Veer is not as close as he was during their courtship and she is having second thoughts about the wedding.

She confides in Raj and slowly they they realise they are head over heels in love and get intimate. But when Raj fails to accept their love and also  falls back on her plans to elope together, she realises that he is a wimp and go ahead with the wedding with Raj.


Things turn sour after the wedding when Veer fails to please her emotionally and physically! The situation worsens when he starts abusing her. To make matters worse, she finds out his affair with a college girl!!!

She walks out but both the families ask her to reconcile and go back to Veer. Their opinion is that men can do anything and the girl just has to bear with it and act as if nothing happens.

During all this , Rihana, gets a job teaching fashion designing and get close to a female colleague -Shipra, with whom she share a very special friendship.

She also meets an inspector Avinash with whom she feels can discuss even her personal life and share her thoughts freely.

In spite of Veer's misdeeds, she goes back but lays down some ground rules. But Veer crosses over again.

In an effort to free herself from the loveless and torturous marriage, she sets about doing something scandalous!And that is the deliberate sin!!

Read the book if you want to find out the book ends...

My thoughts on the book...

What I liked:

• I like about this book is that the author has touched a subject that questions the society!! When a male does something wrong, it is not considered bad or even when he has an affair it not not taken seriously and the wife is supposed to accept it and be with him even though she does not want to! But if the same thing is done by the women, she gets a different treatment and all everyone does is speak about her character!
• The other thing that I like- Rihana is portrayed as a survivor where she breaks out of the stereotype the society expects and comes out of her misery with flying colors even if it is scandalous!

Some of the other things....

• First of all the book is very racy!The book starts off with a steamy scene!! And has a few more in between as well! The book is really bold!
• It has everything from adultery, domestic violence, marital rape to twists and turns in the story.
•  Rihana who has been described as a very free spirited, bold girl, is later depicted to be wallowing in self pity and a lot of crying and depressing moments!
• The needs of a women both emotional and physical are given thoughts through Rihana but the racy scenes could have been cut short / avoided. I am not into these kinds of books so did not enjoy it much.

All in all it is a very short read and shows the needs and emotions a women are also be considered by men[husband] and the differntial attitude of the society towards the same sin when it is committed by men and women!

The Delibrate Sinner
Reviewed by PJon Feb 22 2016
Rating: 3

Until the next post....