Name of the Book: Nine
Author: Sweta Samota
Publisher: Self Published
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No. of Pages: 361 pages
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Blurb of the Book:
Brilliant but stubborn teenage decoder, Ila Sharma needs to stay low in college.
With her photo flashed across the media, she is being hunted by the notorious to unravel the mysteries.
And with the three scientists going missing, she is on the target by the Indian Intelligence.
Still reeling from the events back home, and with an undercover agent by her side, Ila is not sure whom she can trust anymore.
With the scientists missing and father dead, it’s her job to bury the powerful secret forever and save it from falling in the wrong hands.
And in the chase, she has no idea how close she is to the next danger.
Can Ila protect and guard the secret? Or will she decode it out of compulsive habit and possess it herself?
Nine is one such journey that will have you biting your nails or gasping for breath but one that you cannot abandon till all the pieces of the jigsaw fall in place.
Review By TBC Reviewer
Ila Sharma is a hundred percenter and the Aryabhatta National Puzzle Champion. She takes up admission in Pune and her roommate Kyra, who is the daughter of a government officer in Pune, wants her to solve a riddle for her. And she solves it, forgetting her father’s warning of not getting into puzzle solving. She has another classmate, Aryan, who helps her at times. And there are people who want her for her brain. And she does not know whom she can trust and whom she cannot.
So what happens when her restless mind is tempted to solve the puzzle and she forgets her father’s warning, read the book and find out.
When I went through the content page of the book, I was intrigued. The book starts with a chapter which is called FACT followed by a chapter called OCCULT LORE and then there is a chapter ZERO. There are chapters with numbers, minus four and minus one.
Nine is a thriller all right. There were certain instances in the book where I felt that things were being dragged and at times, I felt that this could have been detailed. But the best part of the book is the suspense that has been painstakingly created. There were parts in the book when I was associating myself with the book and I thought I was with Ila and was trying to solve the number puzzles along with her.
The character of Ila has been developed well and I felt the author could have detailed other characters also. The language is simple and the narration is gripping and the thriller part makes the story fast-paced.
The author has really done a detailed research which was evident from the way she has described the historical incidents. The story moves effortlessly between the past and the present and between fact and fiction, keeping the reader guessing, what is what.
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