Review: Dream Castle

Book: Dream Castle
Genre: Short Stories
Editor: Akash Rumade and Kavya Shah
Stories:20
Publisher: Ridzee
Pages: 168

“Dream Castle” is a collection of 20 Short Stories by 20 Authors. Edited by Mr. Akash Rumade and Ms. Kavya Shah, book revolves around the Concept of “Dreams”!

All the stories are finely woven around a Dream of the Writer and tries to convey a message. Here are few Stories:

The Guardian Angel: Ruchi Rai

A touching story, beautifully written. Dil was asking for More while reading the story. Perfect editing, perfect grammar and perfect plot. Ruchi has a nice way to narrate the story. It raised my expectations from the book. So I moved to next story.

The Knack of Present: Kavya Shah

 With every word my expectations were rising from the book and I was sure the book is going to be a gem. Kavya tells the story in a nice way and narrates the human behavior as an expert. The flow is smooth and keeps you in the story.

But as one reaches the last part of story, the usual editing errors starts. But still the story keeps you interested.

Breeze of Love : Priyanka Raiyani Bose

It is a beautiful depiction of Love.

The New Beginning: Rohit Sukhwani

I am waiting for December 6, 2016 04:15 pm and if possible will be at Taj Mumbai at 4:00 pm to take advantage of 15 minutes.

Overall it is a nice collection. But Editing could have been much better. Few stories I read without errors, I think were because of Authors. There are  many grammatical errors which could have been corrected with concentrated editing.

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Review: Mirage

Book: Mirage
Publisher: Petals Publishers
Pages: 175
Paperback

“Mirage” is a beautifully conceptualized book. The plot revolves around “Rajeev” who loves his wife “Shreya” so much that he is unable to cope with her sudden loss in an accident. He too wants to kill self so that he can meet her in other world. But then he starts feeling her around him and interacts with him. The writer tries to cover most of aspects of life like True love, continuity of life, relationships, friendship etc.

Writer Mayank Sharma has been able to put his thoughts effectively in the Novel. The storyline is beautifully drawn. The twists and turns are handled efficiently. The flow is smooth. Characters are effectively drawn. Use of poetry in between to highlight emotional state is creative. Language is simple and touching.

There are few things the writer should have taken care, which would have helped the book a lot and taken it to a different level.

1. The use of word “Moment” is so often that it starts irritating after sometime and so could have been avoided.
2. He should have taken care of use of words. At many places “her” is used for Rajeev and “his” for Shreya and so on.
3. Grammar should have been much better. The fault lies here with editor.
4. Mayank is too philosophical at most of places, so the story looks like dragging there. He is somewhere lost between Philosopher and Writer.
5. Editing could have been tight and a few 1000 less words would have helped the story immensely.

Overall a good effort; could have been great with a little more focus.

About The Author: 

Mayank Sharma was born in a small village in Rajasthan and started writing at age of 19. His first Novel was "A Cocktail of Love". Mirage is his second Novel.

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