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Losing Hope (Hopeless, #2) By C olleen Hoover ‘Losing hope’ is a continuation of Hopeless Series. Where ‘Hopeless’ is written from the point of view of Sky, Losing Hope is written from the point of view of Dean Holder. This series as mentioned in my review of ‘Hopeless’ is much more than a love story. Here’s the link to the review of Hopeless: https://bookreviewsbyricha.blogspot.com/2018/06/hopeless-book-review.html ‘Losing Hope’ lay opens the emotional turmoil your loved ones go through when you commit suicide. It’s not only you who dies but the part within your loved ones die along with you. Your loved ones blame themselves, consider themselves as a failure as they couldn’t recognize what you were going through. Your parents, your siblings, your close friends never remain the same as they were. Something break within them which can’t be mended, which can’t be healed. They remain in the denial state for whatever happened. But after reading ‘Losing Hope’, I changed m...

Calling Sehmat by Harinder Sikka ‘Calling Sehmat’ was gifted to me by a friend who doubted whether I am going to like this book or not. But let me tell you I liked this book a lot so keep gifting me books like these :) Most of you may not be aware, ‘Calling Sehmat’ is based on a true story and a Bollywood movie ‘Raazi’ is an adaptation of this book. This book gave me goosebumps at several points. This story instilled more respect and gratitude in me for all those men and women (be it spies; navy, army or air personnel) who sacrifice not only comforts of their homes but leave behind their families, their loved ones to serve their country. It made me realized where we civilians are worried over petty issues be like family disputes, tensions with the boss, relationship issues, these men and women are striving and sacrificing their lives for our safety without expecting anything in return from us. And what we are giving them in return is the country where there is corrupti...

The Spy by Paulo Coelho It’s a story based on the life of a woman, whom history knew as ‘Mata Hari’ and who was falsely accused as ‘The Spy’. The only crime she did was that she dared to follow her dreams fearlessly in the world where men ruled. And the result was, she was convicted of espionage even though the only thing she traded was the gossip. This story or a historical instance is another example depicting that no matter in whichever century we are and whichever zone of the earth we live, whenever a woman dares to be different and wants to follow her own path and marks her own destiny, society will let her down. When I read the synopsis, it’s the subject which grabbed my attention and made me read the whole story. The book started off well, however, I found the story disconnected at few places which made me lost the track of the story at times while reading. I would recommend this book so as to know about the history of this epic woman ‘Mata Hari’. Plot ...