Review of 'The Mahabharata Secret'
About Author:
Christopher C Doyle studied at IIM
Calcutta. He has written articles on management and business for several
publications but his collaboration with Jules Verne, HG Wells, Isaac Asimov,
Robert Heinlein, JRR Tolkein, and Robert Jordan since his childhood made him
dive into world of literature and so he gifted world with ‘The Mahabharata
Secret’, which is his debut novel.
Plot: 5/5
The plot revolves around history of
ancient India, including Mahabharata and Ashoka the Great, which has connection
with present India. With murder of retired nuclear scientist, his nephew’s life
gets into whirlwind with the three emails he receives from his dying uncle.
Mahabharata has something, which can destroy present world. What’s that SOMETHING?
What were the three emails? Why Nephew’s life is turned into whirlwind?
Characters: 5/5
Vijay Singh: Our
hero, who is US returned handsome hunk, who is caught in web of enigmas and obscurities,
created by three emails of his deceased uncle.
Vikram Singh: A
retired nuclear scientist, who is murdered for some secrets he was keeping to
save Humanity and world. He does his best to acknowledge his nephew about the
secrets before dying.
Colin: He is friend
of Vijay Singh, who accompanies him in all his adventures, which may be
life-risking.
White: He is
the one, who has idea about the secrets, which led to death of Vikram Singh.
This guy has many cards in his pocket.
Farooq: He is
a wolf in sheepskin. While reading novel, you would feel like punching him
hard.
Bheemsingh: A
Politician cum Businessman. The word Politician gives negative feeling, na? You
may be wrong or may be right?
Imran Kidwai: May
be addition of Additional Director of Intelligence Bureau will raise your
eyebrows. He plays very important role along with hint that this secret
includes whole world’s safety.
There are also minor characters like other relatives of Shukla, Radha, who
play minor but important roles in life of our protagonist.
Writing
Style: 5/5
‘The Mahabharata Secret’ is really awesome
book, which makes sure about fabulous future of Christopher’s writing profession.
We have a notion that if an MBA from IIM will write any novel then it will be
full of love affairs, Sutta, Bears and making out incidents or job struggles
ending up in banks. Here is the author, who breaks all the notions and choses a
topic which dates back to Mahabharata. Mahabharata is well-known for the myths
and secrets, it carries. Christopher is picking up such a secret and is
successful in gripping the attention of reader. I could not take a break while
reading it. I felt like if I’ll put it down then I’ll miss something. It is
like, you are watching fully action-packed movie and one break will make you
miss a lot. I wanted novel to continue, really wished that there will not be
any end of this awesome work. His writing style has that touch, for which
reader spends one’s valuable money. I request the author to create more works
like this.
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My overall rating for this work is 5/5.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Paperback: 382
pages
Publisher: Om
Books International
Language:
English
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