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This is my seventh Rick Riordan's read, with books having the same intriguing style of writing, yet I am hooked. However, maybe Percy Jackson's point of view is my favourite, with all the sass and sarcasm. This book evoked so many feelings in me.  Percy is sent to the Roman Camp with barely any memories of his past after an eight-month nap. Initially, he is met with suspicion and distrust except from Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang. Frank gets assigned by his father, Mars, the Roman figure of Ares, to go to a quest to free Death, Thanatos and take Percy Jackson and another person with him. He obviously chooses Hazel, the girl he has a crush on. Together they face a lot of troubles, open up to each other and become best friends. They succeed, of course, and get back to camp in time of a battle. They win and celebrate. Percy gets his memories back. The story ends when the warship from Camp Half-Blood is hovering over Camp Jupiter.  I loved Frank and all his usual clumsi...

“This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn’t.” 4.5 / 5 stars! This is the first book I read by an Indian author that is not fanfiction (YES, I read and love fanfiction). I really, really liked this book; it is unputdownable.  The writing style is so good. The characters are sweet and lovely. My favourite bit of romantic books is when the characters go out of their usual way for love and change and surprise themselves and make their own rules, just like in this story. Dimple is a coder. Her life mainly revolves around her dreams. She's smart, strong, and independent. The last thing she would agree to was an arranged marriage; it's something that has always seemed unfathomable to her. Enters Rishi, the family guy, who was not into coding, and cared about fulfilling the wishes of his family, including an arranged marriage to the daughter of family friends, that he abandoned his dreams till the e...

4/5 stars! I decided to read this book because people who loved 'The Hating Game', which is about my favourite romance book, recommended it. And it turned out to be great! I am a sucker for love-hate relationships as long as things don't go dark. Which is why I like this book. “Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative-ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce.” Evie Abbey and Carter Aaron met at a mutual friends' party, went out for a date, instantly liked each other. Thankfully, the didn't make a big issue of the age difference or the commanding job they have. However, they had to work together after the merge of their companies, and also compete for the same position. At some point they fell for their boss' sick games. Then they turned into Allies as in Us Against Them before they realised that none of this deserved to risk a potentially beautiful relationship for. And love wins....

"Brave doesn't mean you're not scared, Starr," she says. "It means you go on even though you're scared. And you're doing that."  I'm an emotional mess right now. This book exceeded my expectations. An apt representation of what Black people have to go through, and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. At some parts, I couldn't go on; it's like this book broke my heart, but then mended it. Warmed some parts of me. Chanted that sometimes you should try to have things end differently- the right way. ********** The book starts with Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old black girl, explaining the two versions of hers: the Starr of Garden Heights, where she lives among her people; and the Starr of Williamson, where she goes to school. She reluctantly attends a party with her friend Kenya, with whom she shares a brother, Seven. There she meets Khalil, one of her best friends whom she has not seen in months. Due to some chaotic shots, they h...

Rating: 3.5/5 stars! "Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two." The Nicola Yoon young adult fiction 'The Sun Is Also a Star' is an enjoyable read. Two different personalities meet in NYC; they click, talk, visit a few places, realise that they've got something, and then ta-da! Life happens. While this is quite Before Sunrise plot, the lead characters have obstacles. Daniel is Korean American, and Natasha is Jamaican. His family has all his life planned out, and it does not include falling in love with a black girl. Her family is dealing with deportation to their country. With Daniel, Natasha is out of character. With Natasha, Daniel is at his utmost self. The novel deals with themes like immigration, the American Dream, and racism. The narration style is quite different as there are entries of things, feelings and minor characters we get to ...

The Necklace  (French:  La Parure ) is an 1884 short story written by the French writer Guy De Muapassant. The charming lady, Madame Loisel, thought that she deserved a better life, better house, better husband and, most importantly, more exquisite clothes and jewels. Chance knocked at her door for a great opportunity for her to show off her elegance and beauty, and she lived it all as she and her minor clerk in the Ministry of Education husband attended a party of the Minister of Education. She borrowed from a friend what she thought to be a diamond necklace, and acted like a rich lady with a high class. But life is unpredictable. The necklace was lost! In the very last line, Guy De Maupassant revealed one of fiction’s master denouements when we get to know that the necklace, which was lost was actually an imitation and not real. For a few moments of sheer Ecstasy Madame Loisel had to endure ten years of paying off debts and working hard all day long to sa...

3.5/5stars. I just do not know how I feel towards all the characters except Nick. Before starting reading the story, I had got to know about the narrator, and I wondered why is not the story written from Gatsby or Daisy's POV. However, once I got to know the characters, I knew that the story couldn't have been well-narrated except by Nick; he was the sane one in the story, the one with self-composition. If others were to narrate it, it would have been incoherent and so confusing. I liked Nick's narration and the rich prose that was written so beautifully. The language was a refreshment while the actions were not appealing. Gatsby spent years of his precious youth to gain fame and wealth, mistakenly thinking that with them he could gain back a young love. In all the haze to get the status he wanted, he forgot to make friends and to live normally. I pitied him at the beginning and I pitied him when he died. What a waste of youth!