Sunday, 24 May 2020

Charioteer Creatures in Mind-Abhishek Mishra

Book: Charioteer Creatures in Mind
Author: Abhishek Mishra
Publisher: Maple Press

Sometimes playing with someone’s mind can have disastrous consequences.


Charioteer Creatures in Mind by Abhishek Mishra is the story of Vikram Saha, an agent with the Indian Intelligence. He comes across a research centre that is doing some research on human subjects. As a side effect of these tests, the subjects acquire a mental illness and evidence shows that these people were tested with telepathy and hypnosis. He decides to investigate and comes across something really strange.

Charioteer Creatures in Mind is a book that has a very confusing storyline. Throughout the book, the plot has no solid standing and as a reader, it is very difficult to make sense of what is happening. The situations are very difficult to make out and the plotlines are extremely blurry. The storyline is set in New Delhi, Noida and Kashmir, but unless explicitly stated, making sense of the location is impossible. The storyline of the book bears a heavy resemblance to a Hollywood movie and at times, it seems that one is adapted from the other. Another thing that aggravates this issue in the story is the extremely poor editing. Not one sentence in the book has a proper grammatical structure and at places, even the names of the characters are mixed up. The climax of the book, like the whole story, is confusing.

Coming to the characters, the only character I could properly understand was Vikram Saha, and that also to the part that he was attached to his Grandmother, who was killed in an attack when he was young. None of the other characters, be it Firoz, Akira or the professor, none of them had a proper introduction which could establish them in the story and the reason for their existence.

Overall, the book scores a 1.19/5 from me, and I would advise a thorough proofreading and editing of the book.

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