Book Review: Magic Square

Magic Square is a novella about search for a mysterious gentleman. A young scholar finds a poem written in a discrete mathematics book and can’t stop herself from finding about the owner of the book. As events unfold, she also finds a sense of purpose of her own life and decides to quit PhD in the end.

The story kept me reading. I did not feel the need to leave it midway and I managed to finish it in one sitting. As for the mystery angle, it is a bit over dramatic for what it turns out to be but it is better written than the research scholar bit. As a first writing, it is promising but there is a lot more work and detailing that needs to be put in the book.

As it began, I felt that it will be a book that will be very close to my heart. How many fiction books do you read about research scholars? But as it progressed, I realise that there is very little research that has gone into the writing of the book. There was hardly any identification with the life of a research scholar. It thus lacks depth.