Miss Carter’s War by Sheila Hancock was sent to me for review by Sunday Herald, the Sunday supplement of Deccan Herald. Now, Sheila Hancock is not a name that rings a bell, but upon discovering that she was married to John Thaw, immortalized (for me at least) as Inspector Morse on the TV series, I […]
Reviews
Review #7: Asus G551JK Republic of Gamers laptop
The best thing about being a tech writer is that you get gadgets to play with. Unfortunately, you have to give them back eventually. Be that as it may, ever since I found out—and this was eons ago—that ‘gaming laptop’ is a real thing and not a figment of my wishful imagination, I’ve always wanted […]
Review #6: Cross and Burn
Resurfacing after a holiday and a bout of illness with a review of Val McDermid’s Cross and Burn. This is the eighth installment of the Carol Jordan and Tony Hill saga, even though they spend most of this book resolutely avoiding and refusing to talk to each other. If, like me, you’ve long lost your […]
Reviews #3, #4, #5: The Tamanna Trilogy
I met the author Andaleeb Wajid at Bookaroo in Delhi last November and was most excited to find that she had written a time-travel series. We got talking, with me hoping I could pinch an idea or two on how to get my Satin series out of the time-travel mess I’ve created, but then I […]
Review #2: Queen of Ice
It’s a bit early in the year to be cheating, but what the heck. So what if this isn’t a review written specifically for Writeside.net? I worked really hard on it for GoodBooks. The book in question is Devika Rangachari’s Queen of Ice. The easiest way to make a teenager disappear is probably to hiss […]
Review #1: Nirmala and Normala
We all know how much Bollywood loves the twins-separated-at-birth story line and we’ve all taken perverse pleasure from these movies. So when a couple of writers team up to poke some fun at it, the result is a hilarious juxtaposition of reel and real life. The author–illustrator team of Sowmya Rajendran and Niveditha Subramaniam are […]