The Blue Jade
BOOK REVIEW
by Shobha Nihalani
by Swapna Peri
I remember I have heard author
Shobha's name in the year 2014 during the Annual Hyderabad Book Festival. I happen to visit one of the setup stores in the book exhibition and had a glance at the books there. A book with an interesting cover in blue color with some story in the cover itself took my attention. This happens to the second book in Nine Trilogy by Shobha Nine, Vengeance of Warrior. It was a thrilling experience as I am a fan of thriller and mystery genre with some historical aspect and well a fan of Indian writing. It was after Shiva Trilogy and The Krishna Key by other Indian authors, I have found
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this Nine Trilogy extremely captivating. Since then I have been following her articles, interviews in various sites and of course her books. Shobha has been very consistent in her really interesting plots. Her book Unresolved blew my mind off. I was traveling from Hyderabad to Kochi in Flight and also it happens to be one of the few Kindle books I bought. My flight was an awesome one. The psychological aspects of the book are extremely fantastic. It has been a while that I have read her other books. Fortunately, I have landed up with a chance to read and review ' The Blue Jade '. Oh! What a great experience I had from reading this book. Initially, it reminded me of an old Hindi movie Suryavanshi where an excavation of lost palace happens and also an English Tv series Relic Hunter. The mere mention of the word artifacts made me remember these two. Coming to the book, 'The Blue Jade ', it is the story of a young woman APRIL 2020