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Something Went Wrong: An Anthology of Fantasy-Motivation

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Something went wrong is about a published yet un-popular author, who writes his third novel trying to make it a masterpiece. A spark of fantasy struck him - (A scientist loses his magical sunglass and a lucky college student grasped it. How the college student uses it? And will the scientist find his sunglass from him?). The author writes down this as his third novel. Despite that, he faces a lot of challenges from publisher’s end, his office works, married life and everything. Will he finally publish it? Will the novel become a masterpiece? Will people accept his novel?

195 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2020

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Profile Image for Dalia (book_o_creativity).
566 reviews76 followers
November 11, 2020
THINGS I LIKED
1. A Nice Idea And Story
There's not much Sci-Fi books available by Indian authors. So kudos to the author for coming up with this creative idea.
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2. One Sitting Read
This book is quite fast paced and has 182 pages. I finished it in one sitting.
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3. Characters Are Well Sketched
The main characters are well sketched especially Dr. Anand.
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4. Good For Beginners
Because it's written in very simple 'easy to understand' English, it's good for beginner readers who wants to start reading with simple books.
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5. Writing Style Is Okay
Apart from the grammatical mistakes the writing style is good.

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THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE
1. Plenty of Grammatical Errors and Editing Mistakes
There are plenty of editing mistakes. So I felt this book needs rectification.
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2. Wrong Choice of Words
Some words are not in the right place rather say wrong words are used in some places.
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3. Lack of Flow
Because this book is part Sci-Fi and part fiction, it lacks flow and fluidity in the middle.
Profile Image for Dharani Kannan.
Author 5 books19 followers
October 25, 2020
That was a fantastic happy read for me. Far above my expectations, this book has the great flow and it is addictive at times. The sarcastic tone of the author is the best thing that kept me hooked throughout the book.

A few punctuation errors crossed my eyes while reading. However, they are nothing while reading a humour sensed book. The later parts are too positive. However, some scenes regarding the sudden hit of the book, somehow seemed unrealistic as it all happened so quick.

The end of the book is a complete surprise. Wow! That's actually a great Epilogue to be honest. That fantasy, positivity, humour mixture was great and so this book!

Recommended for people who loves relaxing, satisfying and a motivating read.
Profile Image for Shivangi Yadav.
249 reviews9 followers
October 15, 2020

Our life is full of ups and downs. Many hazardous situations come into our life which creates some obstructions and in all of our life's, something always went wrong.

Something went wrong (An Anthology of Fantasy-Motivation) is a debut book by Raghav. Before starting a review I would like to tell you here about the author.
Raghav graduated as an electrical engineer and now works in an MNC company as a software tester. He wanted to share his stories with peoples of India, which will be inspiring, motivating and also gives a social message. His hobbies are reading books, watching movies and cricket.
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About the book
The story of 'Something Went Wrong' twirls around the story of two protagonists. Dr. Anand (scientist) and Harish Vidyut (Hr & Author).

The book begins with the story of Harish Vidyut who is software tester in the IT sector. He has a dream to publish his books and become an author. He has a supportive wife Manasvi who always supports him to achieve his dream. The twist comes in the story when his sample chapters rejected by eight publishers. He became so pessimistic.
What happens next? His novel will publish or not? Is his dream of becoming a writer will be fulfilled or not?

On another side the story of Dr. Anand is going on…he is a scientist and has a beautiful small family Jothi his wife and his two children Brinda & sujin. Dr. Anand is not blessed with a rich memory. Once he was traveling to Chennai for submitting the research papers. That research was his 15-year dream. While journey he lost his research material (sunglasses) and papers.

Prajin a boy got Anand's material in the bus. He took that pieces of stuff to his home. Once at night he carries those sunglasses and watched the sexiest item song of Lanny Hyne on youtube. The next day when he woke up he perceived himself as Lanny Hyne.

will Dr. Anand get his sunglasses and research papers? What happens to next with prajin? Are that glasses miraculous?
To know the whole story grab the books and turn the pages.
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What I like in this book
As we all overheard that looks don't matter when you have any talent. By reading the story of Dr. Anand It's clear.
Here author well mentioned that what challenges some author has suffered while publishing their book.
How some publishers do not accept best stories n all…..
How to manage our situations and problems are well described here in the form of a story.
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What I don't like
Here the author mentions two stories together. Sometimes it creates some confusion.
The conclusion of the novel may be surprising to many readers as the novelist had some other plans in his mind.
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Recommendations & Ratings
I am happy with my reading experience. Something went wrong impressed me with its uniformity and subtle storytelling that could make a usual subject a master plot in the novel. The novel is very roadworthy and I am sure that the readers will like it.
Overall this book is too good so my ratings is 5/5.
I recommend this book to all. Anyone can read this book it will guide and inspires you a lot.

Thankyou
Profile Image for Half Papyrus.
483 reviews1 follower
November 16, 2020
#fantasy #different #magical
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Something Went Wrong
By Raghav

The story revolves around magical sunglasses which is found by Prajin, a college student and very funny character in the plot. The use of his sunglasses is a dramatic version of fun, frolic, excitement and creativity! The sunglasses actually belong to Dr. Anand, who is a scientist and an apparantly mystic character in the plot. With its spellbound beginning, where mother's taunts take the turn to the enjoyable ending of mystery and suspense, this book is a package of comedy, humour, mystery and fantasy!

Speaking of the narration, it satisfies the readers with a very promising and well-oriented premise. This is one of those books where the storyline itself is so concrete and imaginative, that the rest of the branches of the story all somehow adjust and fit in. The plotline almost always takes the centre stage in the book, and the action sequences and mystery aids to its impact.⁣

This book is bound to be a page-turner from the beginning. The bold plot introduction, coupled with the fast and furious writing style—it all makes this book quite an enthralling experience . It is much like a very threatening and cliff-hanger kind of a dramatic story, the kinds where the readers can never anticipate the next plot twist or the next blood curdling revelation especially about the sunglasses.

One thing which could have been done differently is the step by step building of the plot. It is so fast paced that in bewilderment, it leaves its essence behind. Other than that, the book is undoubtedly recommended for those who are interested in the intricacies of an intriguing and soft SciFi thriller and a humorous fanatasy with tints of motivation every now and then!⁣

"Is Dr. Anand a real personality? Is my novel reflecting reality? But to verify thoroughly, I need to ask one last question. I was an inch away from finding him."
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Profile Image for Readbyheart .
581 reviews69 followers
November 6, 2020

•The book cover and the title of the book are apt to the plot of the story.

•The story of 'Something Went Wrong' revolves around the story of two protagonists, Dr. Anand and Harish Vidyut.

•The story begins with the story of Harish Vidyut. He has a dream to publish his books and become an author. The twist comes in the story when his sample chapters rejected by eight publishers and he became hopeless.

•On another side the story of Dr. Anand is going on. He is a scientist with bad memory power. Once he was traveling to Chennai for submitting the research papers and he forgets his magical sunglasses in the bus. After his wife's advice he successfully extended a week's time to present his work.

•Prajin, a carefree college student, finds those sunglasses left by Dr Anand. His friend said him to keep it by himself, telling that it's a gift from him.

Will Dr. Anand get his sunglasses and research papers? What will happen with Harish.. will he be able to write something successful?

You have to read this book to find out!

•The end of the book is a complete surprise. This is a well written story which is filled with positivity, secrets, suspense, and humour, which all had me intrigued and hooked throughout.

•The writing of the story is engaging and crisp The plot and the storyline are outstanding. Actually I have no words to describe it. Author has done a great job by creating this story.

•Characters are characterized well here.The characters are unique, strong, indepenent and impactful.

•The author has done such a fabulous job, the vocabulary is soo simple and easy to understand.

•recommended from my side!
Profile Image for Gowravy Ravanan.
163 reviews3 followers
November 12, 2020
The book comprises 17 chapters and the story revolves around three main characters, Dr. Anand, Prajin, and Harish.

Dr. Anand is a great scientist and an intellectual buddy with a horrible memory, he often forgets things. He lived with his wife Jothi and two kids. Prajin is a college student who is enthusiastic about all non-academic works. He is an easygoing and lackadaisical guy. Harish is a hardworking guy who tries to achieve as a great writer. His writing career wasn't easy for him and he pulls hard to be a successful writer.

One day, Prajin finds a magical sunglass that was lost by Dr.Anand on the bus. Dr. Anand while traveling to Chennai for attending a scientist meeting missed his sunglasses. His friends somehow manage to keep it himself. What was the magical sunglass are really about? Did Dr. Anand find the sunglass back or did Prajin decides to have to himself? Or what if everything above is a well-written story of Harish? These questions heave the readers to go until the end.

The author has poured out all his imagination into the book.
I think the readers from Tamil Nadu could connect well with the locations and happenings mentioned in the story very well.

The title is inclined to the plot and the cover is good. The editing could have been better. At some points, the dialogues could have been precise. I appreciate the funny and sarcastic dialogues added in the plots helped in engaging well. I loved the end!

Overall this book is a fabulous read to me, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The author did an amazing job of storytelling that hooked me until the end. I would recommend this to all sci-fi and fantasy lovers. My best wishes to the author.
Profile Image for Aditi Mehta.
191 reviews6 followers
November 13, 2020
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Inspiring and imaginary in its approach but contemporary in its setting with all the brainchild invention of the scientist gone missing and discovered by young student. All these is sensorially overloaded with thrill, sarcasm, scientist, dream, invention, struggle, ambition, motivation and ofcourse fantasy.

This is the story of a Author Harish who is grappling with writer's block and wants to be published best selling. The depiction of situation is so real with Harish working as a HR executive and a passion for writing, currently on the way to write third book, he takes his friend suggestion to write fantasy as Indian author and fantasy are rare combo and writes a book from the strings of his dreams about Dr Anand, a scientist who invented a sunglasses with superpower goes missing while he enroute to a conference and discovered by the young student and then the thrilling adventure begins.

The book creates perfect illusion on the mind of reader and also simultaneously keeping it subtly real to be believable. It's sincere and heartfelt but it never gets raw and messy. It's too neat. Until the final stretch it doesn't pierce your heart the way subject should. The dialogue and narration seem more like an ensemble of words rather than boasting with lyricism the author seems to have aimed for. Though the book is still one worth reading credits to the heft and sort of quite wisdom.
Profile Image for Rutuja Ramteke.
2,000 reviews98 followers
October 24, 2020

Something went wrong is about a published yet un-popular author, who writes his third novel trying to make it as masterpiece. A spark of fantasy struck him - (A scientist loses his magical sunglass and a lucky college student grasped it. How the college student uses it? And will the scientist find his sunglass from him?). The author writes down this as his third novel. Despite that, he faces a lot of challenges from publisher’s end, his office works, married life and everything. Will he finally publish it?
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This is a story of an author Harish, who isn't doing so good in his writing career initially but then things start to take turns, his life is filled with ups and downs. This is a fictional fantasy story that is filled with drama and humour, it's a short read which is definitely gripping because the protagonist character is going through so much. Honestly, I don't feel Harish a complete fictional character, I do feel the author see's himself in him and I definitely loved how he portrayed the struggles of writing and publishing a book, the storyline is really twisted and the end was unpredictable. I definitely enjoyed it and it's a great weekend read.
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I do feel, there are few typos which could have been avoided and also feel the fantasy touch is not overloaded. I definitely will recommend it and even beginners can give it a try.
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Rating: 4🌟
Profile Image for Pritha.
281 reviews21 followers
October 30, 2020
✒AUTHOR: Raghav

📚BOOK: Something Went Wrong

📑PAGES: 183
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One day, while on his daily commute, the happy-go-lucky, college going Prajin stumbles upon a pair of sunglasses aboard a bus. His companion, who accompanies him, indoctrinates him into keeping the pair of sunglasses in his possession. Little does the pair know that the pair sunglasses are anything but ordinary.
The pair of glasses belong to a certain Dr. Anand, a scientist and an ingenious inventor, who is also an amnesiac. The pair of glasses happen to be his brainchild, imbued with superpowers. He was aboard the same bus as Prajin and his chum, enroute to a scientific conference where he is scheduled to demonstrate the working of his invention, but owing to his dubious memory, forgets to collect the glasses before alighting. When his spouse is informed of the misplacement, she coerces him to look for his invention. Meanwhile, Dr. Anand is granted a week's time more to demonstrate his invention. A roller-coaster of an adventure soon follows. Read the book to know more. The book is written in very simple and effective way. I express my sincere appreciation for the author’s effort. It deserves all of it.
Definitely recommend reading!
Happy reading
Rating- ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Profile Image for Nan.
123 reviews
November 8, 2020
Something Went Wrong by Raghav

A writer who hasn't tasted success the way he hopes and his new ambitious work that he tries hard to get published forms the core of this book.

Harish a writer pens his third novel based on his dream about a scientist whose invention goes missing and a young student who discovers it finds his life derailed by that invention. While struggling with his own personal issues, Harish tries to sell his brain child.

Harish's story was very real. His struggles with getting published and gaining recognisation for his books was authentic. The story of scientist and the young boy could have been structured more solid. While Prajin had a very thorough background and the consequences he faces on the wake of finding the invention was interesting, the whole story, especially the ending, could have been better.

The motivation element mentioned in the book cover was well crafted while the fantasy part wasn't very gripping.

This book has a lot of issues in writing in terms of grammar, sentence structure and even formatting to the point of making the whole reading experience a strain. Editing and proofreading could have made this much better read.  The cover is very plain and could use more detailing.
Profile Image for Jeya Arthi.
137 reviews13 followers
November 3, 2020
The protagonist is a young aspiring author who writes a book which is actually the book.
Um. Wait

Science Fiction / Fantasy doesn't have a huge reader base as it is for other genres like mytho or self self. When Harish decides to publish his third book, a fantasy thriller, he is rejected by traditional publishing houses. Not only that, he struggles between work, writing and his unborn baby. His wife someone convinces him to try his luck through self publishing houses and woah we have a fine ending.

The book doesn't begin with this, but the fantasy that Harish writes interuppted then and there by the present. The author has a knack of presenting the beginning that is sure to keep readers hooked atleast for some 50 pages. I wish it were the same throughout. Since it's part Fantasy and fiction, it wasn't too excessive.

The characters sketch of Harish & Manasvi was well developed but needs more refining in terms of editing. Kudos to the author to have talked about how traditional publishing houses treat newbie writers & their journey afterthat.

Overall, a good read. Recommending to beginners.
155 reviews2 followers
October 25, 2020
Prajin, a carefree college student, finds a sunglasses left by a passenger whole travelling in a bus. His friend brainwashed him to keep it all by himself, telling that it's more like a gift from him. However, that was not an ordinary sunglasses and more exciting incidents follows.

Dr. Anand, the real owner of the magical sunglasses, is a scientist with a bad memory power, and he forgets his magical sunglasses in the bus. Actually this happened on his way to show it up on a scientists meet. After his wife's advice, he somehow initiates the search and successfully extended a week's time to exhibit his work. How will this go?

What if the above fantasy story was written by Harish, a flop author, with too much rejections from publishers? What's the future of his book 'Something went wrong'?


It is an exciting fantasy story and I love reading it a lot.

Recommended for people who loves the mixture of fantasy, motivation and humour.
Profile Image for Sejuti Majumdar.
313 reviews7 followers
November 12, 2020
This book is about a scientist Dr Anand who lost his magical sunglasses and Prajin a college student finds it. The book is actually from the point of another protagonist Harish who is a flop author whose next theme is the above plot.This book is a fantasy magical theme book which is enjoyable to read.

The book has both humour and suspense with good characterisation and plot building. I would also appreciate the author for bringing out the reality of traditional publishing and how difficult the journey of a new author is.

The only thing I would suggest the author is to improve the editing and also in some places he translated regional phrases directly which I personally think would have been better if not used.

Since fantasy or magical themed book is less written in our country I appreciate this book.
Profile Image for Aditi Roy.
347 reviews11 followers
November 29, 2020
I'm not so called fan of science fiction but I really appreciate author's collective work to put two different genres- science fiction and fantasy altogether in an extremely quirky way. Something like this has not been read anywhere.

Also, the characters both Harish and Dr.Anand, though quite unique and interesting, have their own qualities which readers are definitely going to be able to connect with.

Though the infrastructure for the plot is not that great, there are some smart, crisp, yet highly stylised pieces that show the efficiency and expertise of the author. A lot of thought has gone behind his creations.

●I think book cover is misleading the readers. I wish it could be more innovative with its cover.
● I must say editing and proofreading are highly essential for this book. A lot of improvement have to be made to put things back in order.
Profile Image for Pooja Jena.
362 reviews
December 3, 2020
Prajin, a smart collage student finds a sunglass while coming back from a quiz event, that is being lost by a forgetful scientist, Dr Anand. But, have I mentioned yet that the sunglasses were magical. Mr Harish, a flop author tries his hand at fantasy. After facing rejection from several publishers, he is disheartened. Will miracle happen?
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It was a quite engaging read with two parallel narrations. The narration could have been a bit smoother. The characters were well developed and the plot of the story was an amazing mixture of fiction and fantasy. There was some typos and grammatical errors. Though the writing style was good but it still needs to evolve a bit.
If you are looking for something interesting and hooking, this can be your take.
Profile Image for Bookishbong  Moumita.
470 reviews129 followers
November 22, 2020
The story starts with Harish, a writer who is trying hard to be a successful in his writing field.Mythology or Romantic fictions are quite popular two genres but those genres aren't his "cup of tea". On the other hand Dr. Anand lost his magical sunglass and a student named Prajin, keeps that . And then, Something went wrong.

The storyline of this book is quite unique because the story of Magical sunglasses along with Dr. Anand and Prachin is written by Harish.

The character Harish is well sketched and real enough - from a dilema of quitting IT job and caring for pregnant wife to a struggle of fitting into this publishing work have been done well, while other two characters could be better.

More over it's quite engaging and I admire the idea of this book which is fresh according to me .
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