Book Review: The Ten Commandments of Evil by Vignesh Sivasankar

The Ten Commandments of Evil by Vignesh Sivasankar is a page-turning horror fiction that grabs attention as soon as you get started with the first story and it keep engrossed till you finished with the last story. I have read many horror books by Indian authors and watched a few web series but nothing like this. Surprisingly, this is the first book by the author and he blew my mind with detailed stories in simple and lucid narration. His way of presenting and twisting stories is not only impressive but also imaginative with a tinge of dark fantasy.

The book offers 10 stories that are about evil's version. The author says right at the beginning that being in a marketing field, he traveled a lot, thus, he got a chance to know all these stories from the people who were part of that. Nearly all the stories are intense and terrific. The first story is about that Bengali couple who are blessed by twins during pregnancy but little did they know that it brought demonic curse to them. The story of Rickshaw Shekhar is quite scary involving many murders and heavy bloodshed. In the second story, a teenage girl can smell the stench of dying souls. Can she save herself?

In fourth story "The Guest", a serial killer walks into a posh apartment to wipe out the whole family but irony of fate plays its role. He was killed by dead. Amazing twist that too subtly!

Nearly in all stories, first crime takes place which is done in such a way that it does not forget to draw attention. Horror and supernatural aspects lurk in the backdrop but the stories have their own share of episodic crimes and investigation. As each story chugs ahead, it gets complicated, inextricable, and messy. Leaving no option, one has to read thoroughly. I enjoyed this book beyond its extent because I am fan of horror series on Netflix.

The book is an absolute page turner. In every story, I was guessing a lot but in the end it convinces me with a proper ending. The author brilliantly managed to keep the suspense alive in all stories, great thing is that no stories looked repeated. Vignesh describes every small and big scene in a comprehensive manner. The storytelling is addictive. Language is highly effective yet simple so even first-time readers can also enjoy this book. With 10 stories at its front, the book has got so many characters, it was hard to keep track of all of them, but the overall reading experience was worth everything. Without any dull moment, the book is interesting and intriguing.

Buy from Amazon.

Comments

Poem Summary: Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore

Poem by Rabindranath Tagore: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. Short Summary: This poem is written by Rabindranath Tagore during pre-independence days, when India was a colony of the British. The underlying theme of the poem is absolute freedom; the poet wants the citizens of his country to be living in a free state. According to the poem, we see that the poet is expressing his views there should be a country, like where people live without any sort of fear and with pure dignity…they should

Book Review: The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond

Among all Ruskin Bond books, The Blue Umbrella has, so far, gathered immense applaud from readers and critics alike. This is a short novel, but the kind of moral lessons it teaches to us are simply overwhelming. This is a story of Binya, a poor little girl living with her mother and an elder brother, Bijju, in a small hilly village of Garhwal. One day while herding her two cows back home, she stumbles upon some city people enjoying the picnic in the valley. She is enthralled to see them well-groomed and rich. She craves to be one like them and among many other things of their, a blue frilly umbrella catches her attention. She begins craving for it. On the other hand, the city people get attracted by her innocent beauty and the pendant in her neck. The pendant consists of leopard’s claw – which is considered a mascot widely in the hills. Binya trades her pendant off with the blue umbrella. The blue umbrella is so much beautiful that soon it becomes a topic of conversation fo

Poem Summary: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias is a short poem of fourteen lines written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The concurrent theme of the poem is that nothing remains intact and same forever in this world. Even the brightest of metal, one day decays with passage of time. The throne name of Egyptian King Ramesses is Ozymandias. It was his dearest desire to preserve himself forever by building a huge statue that he thought would never tumble down. Stanza 1: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; Summary: The poet narrates the poem through the eyes of a traveler who seems to have come back from a remote and far-away land, referring to Egypt. The traveler r

Kevein Books and Reviews

Search This Blog