The novel begins with six medical students in the same study group who are hand-picked by the dean of the college to become the best doctors of their batch. But instead of becoming friendly, their personalities clash dividing them into factions and they start playing pranks on each other. The pranks gradually assume menacing proportions and when one of the pranks ends in disastrous consequences, all things change. But what the novel will keep the reader asking is if the ‘pranking’ ever ends.
With one surprising twist after the other, the story is as gripping as it is astonishing. Harish Sharma unravels a skein of intense rivalry with unexpected outcomes. A thrilling read, PRANKZz keeps the truth hidden right until the very end.
About the Author Harish Sharma is a postgraduate of The National Film and Television School, England. He teaches film studies, screenplay writing and narrative structures, dividing his time between Oxford and Bangalore.
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Overall, the book earned 0 stars, but I’ll toss it 1 star not just because I have to but because the ‘twist’ was moderately clever.
The novel began with six medical students embarking on a journey to become the best doctors in their college. They were hand-picked to join a study group by the dean of their college, and assumed with three boys and three girls there may be future romances-alongside study, study, study-But when the girls showed no interest in the boys, the boys played a mean prank on them…and follow a prank war.
The pranks were too big. It wasn’t fun to follow, I had assumed there would be an excitement to discover what each group would do, but with the characters playing a big, long game the novel was both something I had to skim, due to disinterest, and had to re-read due to just trying to understand what was happening. The writing was heavy in the sense there was so much convoluted descriptions that were all over the place.
The author throws in a twist at the end, but the cleverness of one twist could not save an entire novel of bleh.