Why Should I Love You…?Kamal Paneru2017pp. 150 Half Baked BeansThe debutant work by Paneru is in the young adult romance genre oft explored by contemporary Indian writers. The setting is an engineering college, and themes of romance, studies, the futility of studies, placements and life in the semi metropoliton cities have been well explored. All…
No AngelHelen Keeble2013New YorkHarper Collins (HarperTeen)The book is about the experiences of a teenage boy, Raffael Angelos, ending up studying in an all girls’ residential school. His experiences go beyond his expectations as he realises that he is an angel, or half angel or half demon. Call it what you might! Well, there are others…
EclipseStephenie Meyer2007Atompp. 559 The third book of the Twilight series holds no greater promise than the first. Maybe the books should be read as far apart as they were first published. The plot remains the same, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong around Bella Swan; everything Edward and Jacob can do make things…
New Moon Stephenie Meyer2006Atompp. 495 The second in the Twilight series is a better written book with interesting twists in the romance of teenaged vampire Edward and still human Bella. With the introduction of werewolves, The story takes on a new turn. Her love for monsters of all kinds seems to be unlike any that…
TwilightStephenie Meyer2007 (1st edition 2006)Atompp. 434 Book One of the series, Meyer’s fantasy fiction is meant for the hyperventilating teenager who’s just discovered the world of romance and probably the world of reading. In saying that, I acknowledge that I have picked it up too late in life to give it a fair chance. Nevertheless,…
