Malvika Singh
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A post-COVID world where animals rule, and the office politics have survived the humans. My review of Angry Junglee Bosses by Cross.
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A dismembered, decaying body. A high society park. No obvious suspect. My review of Supriya Bansal’s Never Forget the Crows.
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October has walked in with a very shiny sun, and I’m missing the rain. Navratri outfits, a birthday on the way, and two books I’m reading just because I want to.
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The second Fictional Hearts book sends Brynn through Charlotte’s portal and into a world that seems too good to be true.
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Nine Bollywood movies with twins, from Ram Aur Shyam to Kaminey — double role classics, mistaken identities, and why Hindi cinema cannot let this trope go.
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Avanthika wakes with retrograde amnesia and has to rebuild her life out of other people’s testimony. An identity with no supporting evidence. A psychological thriller read through a risk lens.
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A family moves cities to start again, and a girl alone in a bedroom becomes the cost of it. Jami Worthington’s The Valley is less interested in its killer than in the twenty-five years that follow — and that, mostly, is to its credit.
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Two weeks back in the swing of things after Little Miss’s discharge — stubborn alarms, indefensible butter, and a monsoon that refuses to be hurried. A fortnight that never quite reconciles, and somehow still lands in the black.
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A Sultan falls in love with a commoner, and the kingdom pays for it. Malathi Ramachandran’s Mandu is the story of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur, set in sixteenth-century Malwa — historical fiction with a beating heart. 5/5.