Mehreen Shaikh

blogs from Muscat , Oman

Book Review : Vicious by V.E.Schwab
So unfair to be literature snob when we know how many male authors have enjoyed decades of fame by writing about troubled women - fictional and nonfictional, both. It's been years since I picked up any YA novel solely because I wanted more than just a tight plot, unbearable slang and lack of emotion...
Posted on 13 April 2018 | 4:16 pm
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Book Review : Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
I have taken pride in saying that all my book reviews, for the most part, have been spoiler free. And today I am preparing to violate that. It genuinely serves twice as hard to review a book like Forbidden when the reader feels a multitude of emotions on a particularly taboo subject. I scoured Goodr...
Posted on 26 March 2018 | 7:35 pm
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Book Review : Raj Quartet I, The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Let's just begin by saying that your new yardstick for excellent writing has to be Paul Scott and it's a sentiment well echoed by various reviewers on Goodreads. Pushing aside all the Rudyard Kipling novels, Jim Corbet, Salman Rushdie etc, Colonial India couldn't be more descriptive than Paul Scott'...
Posted on 2 March 2018 | 6:50 pm
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