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This is not some kind of a fictional story- it feels so real, the real stuff which no-one, seriously no-one talks about. This is ugly. Actually nightmarish. Haunting. • Few months ago I got to know about the controversial British playwright Sarah Kane. I knew 'Blasted' was her first and still the most famous play. But there were so many trigger warnings that I was sorta afraid to read it (which was so justified btw). So I decided to read 'cleansed', another famous play by her and I was taken aback after reading it. The language, the scenes, the characters everything was new for me. And Kane was able to give all those new experiences again in 'Blasted'. This play shows us how humanity attempts to survive in the period of destruction. The subject matter of this play ranges from male rape to cannibalism. Our female protagonist being a very simple vegetarian young woman avoiding any non-veg food even if she's hungry at earlier scenes getting willingly raped for food and eatinng meat at the end. Our male protagonist who seems to be a very tough xenophobic and racist man who is always using cuss words at the earlier scenes getting seriously uncomfortable and not able to listening the stories from the soldier about his sexual violences and the casualness in his tone. We see the drastic change in everything. Our brains are just not able to process these changes. War can change everything. Everything. • Lastly I want to appreciate Kane for the details of the characters. For the depth of it. For the honesty in her writing!

This is exactly what I expect from romance books. Sheer romance and not a book filled with just meaningless kisses and smutty scenes. This is not a fun rom-com but a very deep romance. • I seriously couldn't put down my highlighter down while reading this one, this is how much good the writing is done. Every sentence, every word is used so wisely that you stop at every now and then to appreciate her writing. After so long I took a novel which is not a fast-paced read and I'm not at all in a hurry to finish it. I wanted to take it very slow. • Sometimes the scenes were so intense that I needed to put the book down to absorb whatever I've just read. The rate of my heartbeats at that time is not even explicable. • Tia makes you fall for Shane in every scene. You have tears in your eyes when Eva and Shane are talking to each other, in literally every scene. The idea of two ex-lovers who became authors later are writing about each other or maybe writing to each other in each of their books is just so romantic. This was so new for me and I loved it. 5/5 🌟

I seldom choose thriller genre. This is probably the third thriller book I've read and I'm still not sure what to expect from this genre. Are all these books same? This book also contains a murder at its beginning and we have to guess till the last chapter who has killed her. And obviously as all the other books, the motive of the killer is getting rid of affairs! There's literally no other plot. Probably the only thing I liked about the book is the unreliable narrators of the story. Generally the most trustworthy person in the novels is the narrator because we are seeing the whole story from the pov of narrator. But here we can't even trust the ladies. 2.5/5 ⭐

I was always curious about hindu mythology. And l started reading this book to reduce this curiosity but instead, this book helped me to even increase it. This book has the strength to make you cry, to make you laugh, to make you feel the romance ; in a nutshell, this story is capable of making you feel each and every emotion one human being can have! Yes, l mean it. This story takes you back around 4000 years back, and you just start to live in there with the other meluhans. I'm totally recommending this book to everyone. It doesn't matter whether you're a fan of mythology or not. You are going to love this book. :)

The only reason I've bought this book was the 'title'. I found it too interesting. And the book was also interesting for first 30-40 pages but after that it is so boring. Next forty pages I was just reading the description of bihar and that school. While reading these pages I got really bored and I just put that book back in the bookshelf. And after one year when I had nothing to do I started to read that book again from the mid part. The end was at least readable. But still so dramatic and you would not have even thought about this kind of end. So I found this book boring and also not realistic.:((

● Apart from the portrayal of women in the book (which was obvious) , you can't resist but to dive into into the story and do not wanna come back to reality. For first 40-50 pages the book was going quite slow for me but after that I didn't put it down. I was literally glued to it. The book has two stories to tell you. One chapter is telling you about Kafka tamura, a 15 year old runaway from home and the next story is telling you a story of 60 year old Nakata who can talk to cats and can predict the fishes falling from sky. Once you're into the story, you just want to skip the next chapter and want to read the whole story of Kafka in one go and read nakata's story likewise because you don't have patience for next chapter to finish to read about kafka once again. But somewhere you know that these stories are going to get mixed at one point and you just keep reading the book as it is. Trust me, it tests your patience. ● If you want to explore 'magical realism' but don't know where to start with, THIS IS THE BOOK YOU SHOULD PICK RN! It's a very unique book, I had never read anything like this before. The whole book is actually a riddle. A very interesting one. You get the answers to all your questions slowly as the story goes on but along with those answers you get more puzzles to solve. ● I'm obviously not going to talk about the female characters from the book because before reading any murakami book you absolutely know that the feminist inside you is going to regret this read. But you still go and read it. Because you know that you feel warm there, being wrapped by his books. 🍙 3.5⭐