Book Review by LITEROMA PUBLISHING SERVICES :: ‘The Harappa Trilogy : Lure of Soma, Fall of Shuruppak & Battle of Ten Kings’ by Dr. Shankar N Kashyap (10th Review)
** Thanks to the author for gifting us a review copy of the trilogy.**
‘Harappa trilogy’ is a wonderful gift from respected author Dr. Shankar Kashyap to his readers. The trilogy comprises of three books titled ‘The Lure of Soma’, ‘The Fall of Shuruppak’ and ‘Battle of Ten Kings’. The story that starts in ‘The lure of Soma’ goes to the next level in the book ‘The Fall of Shuruppak’ and finally comes to a logical closure in the final book ‘Battle of ten kings’.
The story is told through the eyes of the protagonist Upashantha. It’s, in essence, is the journey of Upashantha in search of the unknown driven by the thirst of knowledge. He is joined by his dear wife Lopa and other companions in due course of the exploration.
Firstly, many authors in the recent past have explored the idea of working on non-canonical adaptation of Hindu mythology and Vedic literature. However, what sets this trilogy apart from the rest of the available works is the fact that it explores a less explored and hardly talked episode from the Hindu mythology.
Secondly, the trilogy quite truly opens up a new avenue altogether for its readers and future authors. The second notable point about the trilogy is how the dots had been connected across the three different books.
Thirdly, right from the revised cover designing to end sale packaging, the trilogy does a fairly good job. The only point which could have made a better reading experience is having all the three books in the form of a single package, may be in the form of a box rather than marketed as three independent books. Unless readers are told that they form a trilogy, people might miss to notice it in first glance.
To summarize, this trilogy can be a perfect gift to you for the New Year if you are in the mood of taking a deep dive in the realms of Indian history and mythology.
Overall, Literoma rates the Harappa Trilogy as 4.7*/5* and recommends readers to read the entire series with enough time in hand. It's our privilege to review such works of classy literature which is becoming rare day by day. We eagerly really await to read more of the author's work in future.
‘Harappa trilogy’ is a wonderful gift from respected author Dr. Shankar Kashyap to his readers. The trilogy comprises of three books titled ‘The Lure of Soma’, ‘The Fall of Shuruppak’ and ‘Battle of Ten Kings’. The story that starts in ‘The lure of Soma’ goes to the next level in the book ‘The Fall of Shuruppak’ and finally comes to a logical closure in the final book ‘Battle of ten kings’.
The story is told through the eyes of the protagonist Upashantha. It’s, in essence, is the journey of Upashantha in search of the unknown driven by the thirst of knowledge. He is joined by his dear wife Lopa and other companions in due course of the exploration.
Firstly, many authors in the recent past have explored the idea of working on non-canonical adaptation of Hindu mythology and Vedic literature. However, what sets this trilogy apart from the rest of the available works is the fact that it explores a less explored and hardly talked episode from the Hindu mythology.
Secondly, the trilogy quite truly opens up a new avenue altogether for its readers and future authors. The second notable point about the trilogy is how the dots had been connected across the three different books.
Thirdly, right from the revised cover designing to end sale packaging, the trilogy does a fairly good job. The only point which could have made a better reading experience is having all the three books in the form of a single package, may be in the form of a box rather than marketed as three independent books. Unless readers are told that they form a trilogy, people might miss to notice it in first glance.
To summarize, this trilogy can be a perfect gift to you for the New Year if you are in the mood of taking a deep dive in the realms of Indian history and mythology.
Overall, Literoma rates the Harappa Trilogy as 4.7*/5* and recommends readers to read the entire series with enough time in hand. It's our privilege to review such works of classy literature which is becoming rare day by day. We eagerly really await to read more of the author's work in future.
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