The patala prophecy by C Doyle….
Read an author called Doyle and you would expect another detective story with a twist but this is not even close to your thought!…at the offset it can be called as an amalgamation of Ashwin Sanghi’s puranas based story with the fantasy approach of Amish Tripathi!….
The story doesn’t idle much and starts off into the fantasy with the word go or om in this context!!…
All those who have already read the author’s quest series of Alexander and Mahabharat will find themselves in familiar territory though I still don’t get the cliffhanger in that series…. Just when I thought we could finally get to know what happened to the characters in that series he goes ahead and introduces another different one without any connection to the former!…
In any case it’s a breeze flowing though the pages special if you are on a sojourn to Banaras and the fight is a long one!….
To make famous characters come alive and get interpreted in different way is quite thrilling indeed!…. Our very own harry Potter meets LOTR!!…. The description of some of the characters do bring out a vivid imagination and the author must be praised for it…. So you have saptharishi and Mahabharat and pretas and nagas and what not!… It’s a veritable soup of puranic Lore!…
In most novels though like this one there’s the Neo but rare are the ones who give more power and material to Trinity!… Spoiler hidden!!!
Some nice familiar stories thrown in for good measure do perk you up though…. His inspiration is apparently Subha Villas whose Ramayana series is really good…. And of course the best part of the book is the entry of the other Indra!…… Read on to find out more!!
Then again when it started itself I had a feeling that this was not a one off and there will be a continuation later on…. This is not a big spoiler but lately with many books going on for continuation it feels like I had the appetizer but didn’t get the meal!!…
So I leave it to your best judgement to either read now and wait or wait and read together!!
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