Review: At CrossRoads : Greed for Love and the Love of Money

At CrossRoads : Greed for Love and the Love of Money by Smita Maheshwari
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

[Note: I won this book in GoodReads giveaway and this is my honest review of the book]

The book is about Frank and Lydia and people around them.

Victor is dating Lydia despite being engaged to Amy and Frank informs Lydia about it and Lydia finds herself in deep turmoil. and she leaves Glensefield. Frank was not able to find her next 5 years until he visits St. George. He meets again Lydia and their love blossom again. Everything is fine but Frank's wife comes to know about it and she visits St. George and insults Lydia. In response, Lydia marriages to another businessman. But fortunes turn in such a way that her husband dies and Lydia is all alone again and Frank is beside her but she is not interested.

The story moves smoothly. In the hustle bustle of the business deals, the focus is always on Frank and Lydia. The story also talks about how the greedy financial corporations caused the 2008 financial meltdown across the world.

I liked the book. the author's writing style is also good and I liked it. I rate this book 4/5.

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Review: Maya: Seven Wonders of Life

Maya: Seven Wonders of Life by Sidhartha Satpathy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This Book has a good collection of short stories. There are seven short stories in the book. some of them are heart-warming. there is one character called "Maya" in almost all the stories.

It starts with the story of Rohan who is born into a family of doctors and is not willing to take the family profession forward and leaves his parents home. then there is the story of Mahavira who had to leave his house because of the political violence due Kaveri water issue between Karnataka and Tamilnadu. On other note, the story has strengthened my belief that no violence can happen in our country without the political patronage. politicians always find a way to put the people against each other in the name of states, religion, language etc .

Then, there are a couple of stories of young lovers who try to cope with the failure, some, even after years.

In the end, there is a story of Ele, an elephant. who probably, in the end, realised that there is a cost to pay for independence.

The writing style of the author is good and all the stories are good. I couldn't select a favourite story from this collection as there are two contenders - Horata and Love it flow !!! - Ele .

I rate this book 4/5.




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