PARNIKA REVIEWS

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe  by  Roger McNamee Genre : Fiction Pages : 352 Publisher:  HarperCollins Language : English It's quite unsettling to realise the fact that how easily our mind is influenced. It takes inputs from the left and the right and from the social media we keep sliding and swiping on. It is more frightening when we look at it in a broader spectrum.  Social media is more than just memes or sharing dog and cat videos it's deep and at times dark if not in the right hands.  Zucked gives amazing insight on this growing issue that is openly prevailing in what we call our "social media presence". How much is too much?  My Review Zucked as the name suggests goes in depth about how Facebook became a part of all of the chaos. Zucked highly talks about the bad actors who take over the Facebook platform to push negative agendas. Though Zucked seems to give undivided attention to Facebook being a central be...

A Girl to Remember  by Ajay K Pandey Genre : Fiction Pages : 224 Publisher: Srishti Publishers Language : English The Plot In every angel a demon hides, And in every demon, an angel strides. Neel is a self-proclaimed demon, a slave to his desires, putting at stake even the purest of relationships for it. He lives for himself, takes life as it comes, and considers people who love as emotional fools. When he first sets his eyes on his new landlady, a widow who is eleven years elder to him, all he can see is an opportunity. He has a plan to get rich and is working hard to achieve it until he bumps into Pihu. She is an immature teenager who likes Neel for no apparent reason and blindly believes that he is an angel who will take away all her life’s troubles. Neel hates Pihu for her unexplained obsession, and her being a hindrance in his plan, but her firm resolve to see a good person in him shakes Neel to the core. Will Pihu make a difference? Does inner ...

For the Sake of Love  by Anamika Mishra Genre : Fiction Pages : 184 Publisher : Westland Language : English "Our first meeting was sweet. We were sitting on a bench under an oak tree, she was waiting for someone and I was reading a book." Blurb Twisha Khanna is a young, independent and successful individual. Her life is indulged in work and she has no time for the frivolities of love. Being the creative head of a happening travel magazine gives her numerous opportunities to travel on assignments. When one such assignment to travel to Shimla came, she couldn't say no. Twisha had no time for love but life had other plans.  On finding a stack of old love letters where every word bleeds for love, Twisha is convinced to find and help the man who wrote the letters. In her journey to make this happen, she meets Alex, a rich spoilt brat. Alex was everything Twisha would love to hate. As the two try to put the pieces together for reunit...

Sniper's EYE  by Mainak Dhar Genre : Thriller Pages : 238 Publisher : Tara Press Language : English "...To save those whom I care about, I have to become that man I left behind..." The Plot Sniper's EYE revolves around Aaditya Ghosh, who is a lovable protagonist. He is someone always wanting to stand by what is right. He works in a corporate firm and hates to work from a cubicle, and there is a reason why! He is running away from a past that could not be revealed for the sake of his new beginnings. Aaditya finds himself at peace in the arms of Zoya, who is his love interest. Everything works fine for him until a shooting in the middle of a mall where a person is shot right in front of him. The story unfolds with him getting into some trouble with everything that happens. (You have to read to know more about the hows and whys). That one killing is followed by multiple other murders that set Mumbai on a red alert. All these killi...