Fractured Legend
Author : Kranthi Askani
About The author
Kranthi
Askani is a novelist from Hyderabad ,
India . His
fictional style integrates magical realism with gothic elements.
What
do you do when you get a personally autographed book from the author?? Well I’m
not sure about most of you, I was Happy, and was all set to read the book. Of
course, you need not always feel the same state of emotion you were in
initially. So here I started off, and with the very first line I went “ehh,
errr whatt’ yea! So anyways, I read on further, and come across ‘I would squeal and scurries back like a
touch-me-not….’ And here I was thinking that squealing and scurrying was
attributed to a rat/mouse.
Further,
‘of the eleven others, I like Aardya the most. She is humble and has a straight
Jaw. Everyone teased her, I never teased her’. Yes , i still kept reading!!
So
here I realized that definitely the author’s fictional style of integrating
magical realism and gothic elements was definitely not something I looked
forward to reading.
I
found it really hard to read the book owing to the writing style of the author,
which I personally felt, would put Indian soaps to shame. You know how each
dialogue is said in slow motion in serials?? I felt the writing to be such.
Also, just because you use some bi words out of context doesn’t make the
content worthwhile.
None
of the characters were appealing; they only managed to make me want to yawn.
There
is an obvious lag in the story line, for instance, Priyambada goes to talk to Annapurna about how she could earn money or rather get
some job. Here Priyambada is distracted by a ‘Sieve’ (Yes a SIEVE for crying
out loud), and we are told as to how she lost a sieve herself. So I’m sure you
get the point, right?
The
book is divided into three parts – Slave, Manuscript, and A very long letter. In each pat , we have thre different female protagonists - Priyambada, Nandhini and Pravalli . Somehow, none of them were interesting
I personally
did not like the Book. For me it was definitely Fractured.
My review:
1/10.
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Heya doll
ReplyDeleteThx for the comment on my blog. :D
God i hate such novels !
And Ive noticed most Indian novels are a big fail.
xoxo <3
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lol, that was more like drool than comment :P .... thi sone especially a bit too drab!!! :(
DeleteAww... .. well yes the book is a bit heavy...in the beginning I also felt it a draggy because generally books have a gripping beginning but once I got the hang of it I loved it.....
ReplyDeletereally?? wow nice ....
DeleteHahahahahahaa ONE? XD XD You literally ripped it apart XD
ReplyDeletetrust me you might feel the same if you read it :(
DeleteIts the literary equivalent of some Mahesh Bhatt movie :D hahhahaa 1/10 XD
Deletelol ... Ram gopal varma likely :P
Deleteyou have torn the novel the story to pieces...but i agree some novels make us do that...i kind off 've same opinion about CB's latest book
ReplyDelete@Karan : You know whe i raed the blurb, i was so excited to read it ... but when i started i actually could understand when they say'Dont judge a book by its blurb ...Cover' :D
DeleteThe only Cb book i kinda liked was Two states. The rest .. hmmm welll ....