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Ten Days
Tina is the brightest young executive in a call centre and an office romance adds spice to the hectic pace of work, till a stalker strikes terror in her life.
Vikram, a police officer, is sent to investigate a cybercrime in the same call centre. His life takes a dramatic turn when his ex-girlfriend, Leila, now married to someone else, re-enters his life. Soon after, his assistant ends up dead.
Tina, on one stormy evening, stumbles upon the plot behind these seemingly unrelated events which turns out to be something infinitely menacing.
Vikram, a police officer, is sent to investigate a cybercrime in the same call centre. His life takes a dramatic turn when his ex-girlfriend, Leila, now married to someone else, re-enters his life. Soon after, his assistant ends up dead.
Tina, on one stormy evening, stumbles upon the plot behind these seemingly unrelated events which turns out to be something infinitely menacing.
224 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2014
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July 16, 2021
Ten Days is an interesting thriller that keeps adding characters and devotes them attention. Yet the story does not lose momentum. While we are kept guessing all characters converge logically and little hurriedly towards the climax. A good thriller debut by Leena Nandan.
October 3, 2014
I received this book through Goodreads giveaway and was, thus, one of the first to read the book.
I had no huge expectations from this book, being aware of the fact that it was Nandan's first foray in writing fiction. The writing had all the characteristics that a new author shows. Reading the few first pages, it seemed that the author always had a thesaurus in hand. The words, though not inappropriately used, didn't fit in with the way sentences were formed. It smoothed after the first quarter, but if someone was to judge the book from the first few pages alone, this would certainly have a substantial effect.
There is also no concrete way to describe the story. It seems to revolve around a character (Tina), but the character is not as richly described as a protagonist should be. In fact, all the characters roughly equal each other in description and the reader feels at loss to bond with any particular one. Apart from that, the book introduced all the characters in the first few pages, making it difficult to keep track of the names and their stories. Even if one keeps up with all this, the story is unconvincing. Almost every character is connected with everyone else - maybe the author wanted to establish the Six Degrees of Separation Theory.
I wanted to give 2.5 stars to this book, but owing to the limitations decided to give 3. I think this is a good start for a new author and if Nandan takes the feedback positively and works upon it, maybe she can deliver a best-seller next time.
I had no huge expectations from this book, being aware of the fact that it was Nandan's first foray in writing fiction. The writing had all the characteristics that a new author shows. Reading the few first pages, it seemed that the author always had a thesaurus in hand. The words, though not inappropriately used, didn't fit in with the way sentences were formed. It smoothed after the first quarter, but if someone was to judge the book from the first few pages alone, this would certainly have a substantial effect.
There is also no concrete way to describe the story. It seems to revolve around a character (Tina), but the character is not as richly described as a protagonist should be. In fact, all the characters roughly equal each other in description and the reader feels at loss to bond with any particular one. Apart from that, the book introduced all the characters in the first few pages, making it difficult to keep track of the names and their stories. Even if one keeps up with all this, the story is unconvincing. Almost every character is connected with everyone else - maybe the author wanted to establish the Six Degrees of Separation Theory.
I wanted to give 2.5 stars to this book, but owing to the limitations decided to give 3. I think this is a good start for a new author and if Nandan takes the feedback positively and works upon it, maybe she can deliver a best-seller next time.
November 22, 2014
I received a copy of Ten Days for free through Goodreads First Reads.
This book is a desi-crime-thriller that tells us a story of Tina, a young executive working in 24x365, a Call Centre.
The first flaw in the book is that many things happen and many characters are introduced in the first 50 pages. It is very difficult to keep link & understand who's who & what's what. After the first 50 pages though, you get used to the authors' style and then the next 150 odd pages become quite interesting.
Another thing that I thought that was unnecessarily put was moving the story from Delhi to Mumbai and back again, because nothing much happens in Mumbai (not even 4 pages are allocated to Mumbai). The same story could have been continued at an area close to Delhi.
Though the book suggests that this is a story of Tina, her character in the book is not developed to make her a protagonist. Not just Tina, but no other character is developed that way.
With all its shortcomings, it remains a good read. My only concern remains that it had a potential of being much better.
This book is a desi-crime-thriller that tells us a story of Tina, a young executive working in 24x365, a Call Centre.
The first flaw in the book is that many things happen and many characters are introduced in the first 50 pages. It is very difficult to keep link & understand who's who & what's what. After the first 50 pages though, you get used to the authors' style and then the next 150 odd pages become quite interesting.
Another thing that I thought that was unnecessarily put was moving the story from Delhi to Mumbai and back again, because nothing much happens in Mumbai (not even 4 pages are allocated to Mumbai). The same story could have been continued at an area close to Delhi.
Though the book suggests that this is a story of Tina, her character in the book is not developed to make her a protagonist. Not just Tina, but no other character is developed that way.
With all its shortcomings, it remains a good read. My only concern remains that it had a potential of being much better.
September 14, 2014
3.5 stars : a thriller that revealed and hid the ending quite well till last pages. a bitbtoo many characters and unnecessary scenes though
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August 22, 2014Seems interesting.Wanna read it someday.
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