Book Review: Green Allegiants by Ananda Thumrugoti

Eleven year old Durga holds the cynosure in the novel ‘Green Allegiants’ penned down by Ananda Thumrugoti. Staged against Hyderabad in India, and for some time in Germany, the novel has teen characters that literally save the world falling in the hands of villains situated abroad.

Durga, Janice, Keith, Abhik attend same school. Durga has historical roots to clans of Vijayanagaram; however, her parents are scientist with much fame in the botany field. She has been kept in curtains, she is a like a princess, an heir of a princely state…but nothing sort of kingdom and battles are listed in this novel.

This is as contemporary as any other modern-day thriller novel. Nevertheless, it differs with its skeins; it deals with intricacies of botany. The plants, their species make a lot of the banter in the book. It gives wonderful knowledge about plants that can change the fate of the world, especially with medicinal groundbreaking inventions.

Durga gets in trouble when her parents meet with an accident. Her only confidante is her grandma, who guides her at every step. Her world keeps changing as plant thefts keep shocking the world around her. And to that a couple of murders, she smells something is amiss, with a fragile mind and introvert nature she turns on to investigate about plants, and seeking an ancient secret connected with the safety of her family.

The appearance and involvement of villains is so tricky that that Durga has never expected that. As her weapons were not knife, gun,…it was secrets to foil them. And her family’s safety is somehow connected to plant thieves…clock is ticking…she may get groped in the intricacies designed by elders. This is a clever and endlessly surprising thriller, laced with family secrets and lineage and the intricate world of botany.

On one hand, vibrant ambience of school and friends keep her occupied like a normal students, but on the other hand, she knows that she has to do something to get her hands on the plant theft cases. Will she succeed? Will her family history and parents name support or cost her loss? The novel’s timeline and story builds gradually, with one event unfolding after another. Nothing is hurried. Ananda Thumrugoti kept the storyline packed with one or another aspect, at times those complications of botany and plants, at times with the history of her clan, and Sanskrit quotes to compliment the overall tone of the novel.

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