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Sanya Rawat, a psychology student, finds her mundane life savagely disrupted when two strangers - an unpredictable old English woman and a beastly man from Bolivia - contact her on a social networking site. One among them is a macabre killer from Sanya's past life, driven by an eternal and insatiable thirst for her blood.Strange out-of-body experiences and hallucinations start to haunt Sanya, revealing clues to her past identity, even as she stumbles through a series of unusual incidents that follow an eerie pattern. To make sense of it all, Sanya must learn a terrifying truth about her past life that threatens her very existence now.It becomes a nerve-wracking fight for survival in the end as she is hunted and accosted by the two would-be assailants. To survive, she must choose sides - an arduous decision fraught with peril. Only gut instinct and the sheer will to live guide her as she confronts the gory face of death from her previous life once again. No library descriptions found. |
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We get transported to three corners of the world, starting with eighteenth-century Bolivia. When we move to present-day India, our interest focuses on a young psychology student, Sanya. Like most young people, she spends the requisite amount of time on social networking. But two very unusual friend requests, some very disturbing dreams and scenes of a deja-vu nature suddenly rock her ordinary university life to the core: a past life is catching up with her and fast. Said ‘friends’ are not at all they seem to be: they trick and deceive her. She has to decide, drawing wisely on her psychology studies, which one is her friend and which is her enemy: for, if the wrong one—the one hellbent on revenge—finds her, the fate which met her in her former life will be the inevitable outcome.
I was immediately impressed by this author’s colourful writing style: he’s descriptive without being overly flowery and manages to paint a vivid and detailed picture, whether it’s the character or the setting. I think I particularly liked the balance of the normal and the paranormal which was spot on. Sanya leads a typical undergraduate life, socialising either on the internet or with her prank-playing friends and spending time with her best friend. You could almost say it was…boring, even. The paranormal aspects of the story are indeed a stark contrast, but therein lies the reason I enjoyed this relatively new experience of the genre: one foot was firmly planted in day-to-day mundanity. The other was in a world of danger, obscurity, and retribution. They all combine to a thrilling, heart-in-your-mouth, suspenseful climax.
My only ‘buts’ are that it was hard to distinguish between those characters who didn’t have proper names as such and the dialogue between Sanya and her friends and family is very ‘Indian’. Whilst probably quite normal in that culture, it translates just a little awkwardly. That said, it’s also quite charming.
At only 54k, this is a shortish book, but it hides a huge story. ( )