આયનો

by અશ્વિની ભટ્ટ (Ashwini Bhatt)

લેખકની મિત્ર અને ભાગીદાર વિજ્યા ગુમ થઈ ગઈ, પોલીસને શંકા છે કે તેના ગુમ થવા પાછળ લેખકનો હાથ છે. જ્યારે તેની પત્ની અને લેખક પુત્રીને શંકા છે કે તે બીજી સ્ત્રીને શોધવા પાછળ ખોવાઈ ગયો છે

Genres: Novels

169 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Ashwini Bhatt was born to educationist Harprasad Bhatt and Sharadaben Bhatt on 12 August 1936 in Ahmedabad. He graduated in psychology. He was interested in theatre and he worked as a child artist in Gujarati adoption of Bengali drama Bindur Chhele (Bindu No Kiko). He had failed in several business ventures like poultry farm to a vegetable vendor before starting career as a writer. He moved to United States in 2002. He died on 10 December 2012 at Dallas, Texas, US

He wrote twelve novels and three novellas. He translated several works in Gujarati including Alistair MacLean and James Hadley Chase. He also translated Freedom at Midnight by Collins and Lapierre in Gujarati as Ardhi Rate Azadi which was critically acclaimed.

His serialized novels include Othaar, Faanslo, Aashka Maandal, Katibandh, Nirja Bhargav, Lajja Sanyal, Aayno, Angaar, Jalkapat and Aakhet. Besides writing novels, he was also involved in theatre. His Katibandh was made into TV series.

Reviews

[Akshay Shah · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is holding you until the end with its suspence but I specially felt that climax was not written upto the mark. After reading the climax, atleast i was not satisfied with it. It could have been far better !!

[Parth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t like it much as I had thought. Narration is just superb! (and in some scene its erotic! Lol…) characters are likable. Dialogues sound authentic. Overall it’s an average story. Would I recommend this book to anyone? Well, it’s a small book; quick read. And if you are interested in supernatural kind of story, then you might like it.

[Book'd Hitu · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gripping thriller which will hook you to the pages till the last paragraph.
This book left me spellbound at the end. Ashwini Bhatt is as always great when it comes to thrillers.

[Aryan Padhiar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aayno(or mirror) the book revolves around a mirror in the latter half. In the initial half, we are introduced with 3 lead characters: 2 male friends and a woman whom both love, forming a love triangle. Now the first pitfall comes here the depiction of relationships, building of their intimacy is bit poor in my opinion, too much care is taken to describe the beauty with a bit of eroticness too, yet what my point is the woman charcater marries one of the guy but loved the other one more, but it was mentioned that she saw her more as a friend, but then at numerous events they flirt, they have intimate pics which the husband himself clicks, which seems bit odd to me, did she just marry the guy to get back at him? coz he didnt purposed her in the first place? No intimacy is shown(at least not written) between the wife and husband. So after the 1st half i proceed with a negative image of the woman(and I criticise the writer here for lack of details).
Then the male character(other than the husband) disappears, and follow up scenes are in a havelli
and revolve around one of princess of old times, her room, her lover, and her mirror(Ayono). There is too much repition of details too,like we got it bro,the princess was beautiful.
Now the wife's restlessness during the investigation is justified, assuming they were very good friends, but then how in the end she just doesn't concern herself even the slightest for her husband, she doesn't care he is hurt, he is bleeding, she could just never understand his pov i feel. And the built-up climax ends with a terribly poor ending. I understand the Author wanted to keep it open, yet some things required closure.

[Rajendra · Rating 3 out of 5]

જૂનું અને જાણીતું કથા-બીજ, સારો સસ્પેન્સ, સુંદર ક્લાઇમેક્ષ. ઊણપ છે માત્ર ઊંડાણ ની !

[Manisha Vasani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Suspence Book

[Dhundhalva Asmita · Rating 5 out of 5]

👌👌👌

[Dipeeka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

[Jaydev Kambaliya · Rating 4 out of 5]

સુંદર લખાણ છે। પરંતુ છેલે અચાનક એન્ડ કરવા છતાં થોડો ભાવાર્થ સમજવવા લેખક એ ખુદ ના વિચારો વ્યક્ત કર્યા હોત તો વાચકો ને પણ સહેલું રહેત અને એક ટાઇપ ની કોમ્પ્લીટનેસ નો એહસાસ આવત ।

[Hiren Bharwad · Rating 4 out of 5]

એક અલગ પ્રયોજન એવું દાદા કહેતા. બની શકે તો રાત્રે વાંચવી 🤭

[Madhav · Rating 2 out of 5]

Totally waste of time , story is interesting in first 40 , 50 pages but then description of mahel and repetition of all incidents , હું ગુજરાતી માં કહું , વિજય ગુમ થયો વાત પતિ ગઈ , વારંવાર કેહવા નો અર્થ શું ,

મહેલ નું વર્ણન પણ ખબર ન , પડે બોરિંગ ,
વાર્તા predicatabl e છે, વિજય કેસર ને ચાહવા લાગ્યો અને મારું ગયો ,

અને અત્યાર ના જમાના માં આવી દોસ્તી ના હોય કે કેતન એની પત્ની ની કમર ને વિજય ને ટચ કરવા દે છે ,
થોડીક તો શરમ હોય , માધવી ની તો વાત જ ન થાય, if જો આ સાચી સ્ટોરી છે તો જ્યારે માધવી અને કેતન ના લગન આગળ વધશે ને તો એમના ઝગડા જ થવા ના કારણ કે કેતન માધવી ને તેના સુદર્તા ના લીધે ચહે છે અને માધવી જે બોલવા ની તો સેન્સ જ નથી ,

Predictable story , hu કહીશ કે કોઈ સેલ્ફ હેલ્પ બુક યા thrilling story Sherlock Holmes ya Agatha Christie, Surendra mohan Pathak, James hadly chej ની novels વાંચો તો કંઈ મજા આવશે આ માં કઈ રાખ્યું નથી.

[Manisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful paranormal story from my all time favorite author