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HEXAGON
hexagon is racy, fast moving and a thrilling tale about Rahul Oberoi,an art thief whose great achievement was that he had never been caught. All that changed when he along with his girlfriend and partner Ria are aprehended during a heist.they are then taken to a top secretunderground government facility where rahul's grandfather worked. In the middle of this facility is an ancient device made of stone adorned with mysterious carvings. It is a gateway to six parallel dimensions and six different earths. they are then embroiled in a war waged by a violent race called the moths and the fate of the six earths depends on the outcome of this war.
232 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 2012
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Ishaan Lalit
4 books20 followersIshaan Lalit is a seasoned author with three books already in the market. His unusual plots and the pace of his books have gathered much appreciation. His first book ‘The Bracelet’ gathered good reviews from both HT City and Pioneer. His second book Hexagon, won The Best Science Fiction Award at the Indian Literary Awards. Ishaan Lalit is also an aviator and adventurer. His third book Dinner Date is one of the most highly anticipated books of 2013. He has travelled many countries and that shows in his writing as his books mix multiple cultures and personalities seamlessly. He currently resides in Delhi - NCR but is often out of the country looking for new material to write about.
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September 5, 2012
By Ishaan Lalit: Grade B+
Mr. Ishaan Lalit is from a multi-cultured background. He is a gemologist, a pilot and an adventurer. After authoring, ‘The Bracelet’, he’s all set with ‘Hexagon’, with good intentions of redefining Indian Sci-fi writing. This is the first time I’m reading a Science Fiction novel by an Indian author; it’s a sad truth that they are too far and few in between. Will Hexagon be able to register its presence in a mostly rom-com loving youth? Let’s find out.
Hexagon is racy, fast moving and a thrilling tale about Rahul Oberoi, an art thief whose great achievement was that he had never been caught.
All that changed when he along with his girlfriend and partner Ria are aprehended during a heist. They are then taken to a top secret underground government facility where Rahul’s grandfather worked. In the middle of this facility is an ancient device made of stone adorned with mysterious carvings. It is a gateway to six parallel dimensions and six different earths. They are then embroiled in a war waged by a violent race called the moths and the fate of the six earths depends on the outcome of this war.
The design of the cover is spectacular. Flashy color combinations, and weird graphics look good. However, it doesn’t tell much about the story except it’s different from other regular stories.Without revealing much about the story, the blurb gives an abstract idea of what it is about.
Hexagon is the story of Rahul Oberoi, an art thief and grandson of an archaeologist, Kamal Oberoi.
Kamal Oberoi dies in an expedition to meet the gods of another earth and calls out for Rahul. When Rahul is brought to see his grandfather, he comes to know about things that are beyond his imagination. Then suddenly, this good-for-nothing Rahul becomes the savior of humanity.
The narration of the book is racy, fast-moving and thrilling, as promised by the author. There is not one monotonous moment. The pace is maintained throughout all the chapters. Every chapter is well thought out and well written. Mr. Lalit’s language is simple, and without many complexities. The descriptions of the six different Earths is done really well and the writing lets us visualize every situation.
The protagonist’s over-confidence and over-smartness is all over the book, which I found quite out of place. There is always a clear difference between stupidity and brevity, and Rahul’s activities are centered more towards stupidity. It’s really hard to digest that the world is about to end and the only person who can save it is cracking jokes or giving sarcastic comments every now and then.
I always talk about “spelling and grammatical errors” and I am forced to talk about them again. Hexagon has very little spelling errors and minor syntactical errors, but they are at places where one really can’t ignore them. And apart from minor glitches, there are few blunders too,
1.At page 23, when Rahul asks about the unit’s location, Khaled says, “Around Eight kilometers”, But on page 216, it suddenly becomes eighty kilometers.
2. On page 90, “…..Aneesh who was still in sound sleep on his bed snoring loudly. Aneesh looked at Don and asked “Did you drug him too?” And in the next line, the conversation is resumed with Rahul.
3. Chapter 28 and 29 are identical with different page numbering.
There are few more such mistakes such as Ria being called Riya, Rahul being called Kamal’s son instead of grandson and so on.
These blunders break the flow of a story, not to mention, confuse the reader. A few small mistakes are acceptable, but these many mistakes on that large a scale aren’t.
To conclude the review, I’d like to congratulate Mr. Ishaan Lalit for writing in a non-conventional genre and delivering a well thought out novel. A little better proofreading and editing would have eliminated the glitches I pointed out. The book is easy on reading and the plot is not very complex. The writing has enthralling flow. I won’t think twice before recommending it to any of sci-fi freak. Even if you are not much into reading, this one wont bore you.
Originally reviewed at www.vaultofbooks.com
Mr. Ishaan Lalit is from a multi-cultured background. He is a gemologist, a pilot and an adventurer. After authoring, ‘The Bracelet’, he’s all set with ‘Hexagon’, with good intentions of redefining Indian Sci-fi writing. This is the first time I’m reading a Science Fiction novel by an Indian author; it’s a sad truth that they are too far and few in between. Will Hexagon be able to register its presence in a mostly rom-com loving youth? Let’s find out.
Hexagon is racy, fast moving and a thrilling tale about Rahul Oberoi, an art thief whose great achievement was that he had never been caught.
All that changed when he along with his girlfriend and partner Ria are aprehended during a heist. They are then taken to a top secret underground government facility where Rahul’s grandfather worked. In the middle of this facility is an ancient device made of stone adorned with mysterious carvings. It is a gateway to six parallel dimensions and six different earths. They are then embroiled in a war waged by a violent race called the moths and the fate of the six earths depends on the outcome of this war.
The design of the cover is spectacular. Flashy color combinations, and weird graphics look good. However, it doesn’t tell much about the story except it’s different from other regular stories.Without revealing much about the story, the blurb gives an abstract idea of what it is about.
Hexagon is the story of Rahul Oberoi, an art thief and grandson of an archaeologist, Kamal Oberoi.
Kamal Oberoi dies in an expedition to meet the gods of another earth and calls out for Rahul. When Rahul is brought to see his grandfather, he comes to know about things that are beyond his imagination. Then suddenly, this good-for-nothing Rahul becomes the savior of humanity.
The narration of the book is racy, fast-moving and thrilling, as promised by the author. There is not one monotonous moment. The pace is maintained throughout all the chapters. Every chapter is well thought out and well written. Mr. Lalit’s language is simple, and without many complexities. The descriptions of the six different Earths is done really well and the writing lets us visualize every situation.
The protagonist’s over-confidence and over-smartness is all over the book, which I found quite out of place. There is always a clear difference between stupidity and brevity, and Rahul’s activities are centered more towards stupidity. It’s really hard to digest that the world is about to end and the only person who can save it is cracking jokes or giving sarcastic comments every now and then.
I always talk about “spelling and grammatical errors” and I am forced to talk about them again. Hexagon has very little spelling errors and minor syntactical errors, but they are at places where one really can’t ignore them. And apart from minor glitches, there are few blunders too,
1.At page 23, when Rahul asks about the unit’s location, Khaled says, “Around Eight kilometers”, But on page 216, it suddenly becomes eighty kilometers.
2. On page 90, “…..Aneesh who was still in sound sleep on his bed snoring loudly. Aneesh looked at Don and asked “Did you drug him too?” And in the next line, the conversation is resumed with Rahul.
3. Chapter 28 and 29 are identical with different page numbering.
There are few more such mistakes such as Ria being called Riya, Rahul being called Kamal’s son instead of grandson and so on.
These blunders break the flow of a story, not to mention, confuse the reader. A few small mistakes are acceptable, but these many mistakes on that large a scale aren’t.
To conclude the review, I’d like to congratulate Mr. Ishaan Lalit for writing in a non-conventional genre and delivering a well thought out novel. A little better proofreading and editing would have eliminated the glitches I pointed out. The book is easy on reading and the plot is not very complex. The writing has enthralling flow. I won’t think twice before recommending it to any of sci-fi freak. Even if you are not much into reading, this one wont bore you.
Originally reviewed at www.vaultofbooks.com
April 2, 2020
I picked this book as the synopsis read wonderful as I loved that an Indian writer wrote something else besides the normal love story and its a Sci/Fi story. The Story concerns our earth and Six parallel piles of earth and ruled by a tyrannical rule of a violent species called Moth. The story is good and the author's thinking is good but the execution just average. I would have rated the book 3.5 or 4 stars if not for the errors. Oh, the errors! I wonder if there was an editor who worked on the book. There were so many mistakes with wrong names, wrong words, wrong spellings and then wonder of wonders an entire chapter repeated. Wow .. whatever extra ratings this book would've received were cut due to these mistakes so the final rating is 3/5 and that is me being generous for the effort and different thinking by the writer.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
October 15, 2012
there was much wait and expectations from Hexagon for me. The story as outlined above is pretty straight and almost expected. Now with such books , it becomes all the more important to make the characters and events memorable. The cause and effect of each character / community should be in a way that one thinks about them days after finishing the book and marvel at the author's thought.
There are indeed some part of the books which are done well. But then there are pages and pages where the characters are so dumb, so unreal. The conversations are just not worth reading line by line. It was like reading subtitles for a non english movie. Rahul is not arrogant , but comes across as stupid and a spoiled brat. Rarely does he think before he says or acts. One doesn't expect the hero of all earths to be a coward but poilte and humble sure can be imagined.
Ria , his girlfriend ; Khaled and his girl Mia , the Moth emperor , his arrmy head , all of them have their good and bad scenes. Unfortunately for me , the bad ones are far more than the good ones. Also the events are not linked or given a befitting cause or reason .
Only character I liked in the ook is of high priest and their fountain of red liquid.
This is an easy read in the sense you would want to finish it.
But how satisfied you are after this reading experience, I can not comment.
There are indeed some part of the books which are done well. But then there are pages and pages where the characters are so dumb, so unreal. The conversations are just not worth reading line by line. It was like reading subtitles for a non english movie. Rahul is not arrogant , but comes across as stupid and a spoiled brat. Rarely does he think before he says or acts. One doesn't expect the hero of all earths to be a coward but poilte and humble sure can be imagined.
Ria , his girlfriend ; Khaled and his girl Mia , the Moth emperor , his arrmy head , all of them have their good and bad scenes. Unfortunately for me , the bad ones are far more than the good ones. Also the events are not linked or given a befitting cause or reason .
Only character I liked in the ook is of high priest and their fountain of red liquid.
This is an easy read in the sense you would want to finish it.
But how satisfied you are after this reading experience, I can not comment.
May 11, 2022
This is purely a teenager stuff meant for 11th or 12th graders written by an author who I think among the new breed raised on the diet of video games. Unluckily, it did nothing to sparkle a dint of my interest from 1st to last pages, I had to endure as I am one person who finishes whats started, not leaving halfway, even though loosing interest in the storyline or writing altogether but ultimately turning to fathom what the author was trying to do ultimately. So, it's this story about some six earth dimensions and saving earth from some moths who can get destroyed just by spraying some bleach, Lol (pun intended). While solanos made some hexagonal structures at few places on earth from where all these six dimensions of earth could be entered. The earth was in some kind of grave danger by these moth creatures and the Rahul and her girlfriend Riya on earth as prakirtians, with the help of Aneesh, emperor of Torano, and others like Don and high priest achieved these purpose with some silly actions. It was a total wash out. Time waste. Only 1 star.
July 8, 2022
Let's be honest the plot was good but the writing sucked. Overall this book is sort of dumb. There were several grammar errors and numerous repetitions of absurd facts. Don't even think of reading this.
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January 26, 2013
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It’s the first part of a a Science fiction tri-series. The earth is made of six worlds accessible through the Hexagon. A scientist on earth discovers this secret but unfortunately dies. However he leaves a message. What follows thereafter, the discovery of the hexagon and what worlds lie beyond the other five doors is a mystery that unravels along the story.
The story line is very strong. Concept and plots are fresh and original. You will surely love to read it.
It’s the first part of a a Science fiction tri-series. The earth is made of six worlds accessible through the Hexagon. A scientist on earth discovers this secret but unfortunately dies. However he leaves a message. What follows thereafter, the discovery of the hexagon and what worlds lie beyond the other five doors is a mystery that unravels along the story.
The story line is very strong. Concept and plots are fresh and original. You will surely love to read it.
January 20, 2013
Gripping~ And yes, my first Science-fiction! Was fun! :)
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