Book Review by #LITEROMA PUBLISHING SERVICES :: "Numi - The Guarded Loop" by Nupur Sandhu

** Thanks to the author for gifting us a PDF copy of the book for review. **

** Thanks to our reviewer Reetwika Banerjee for reviewing the book on behalf of Literoma. **

Death is one of the most explored genres in fiction, be it in terms of dark literature, thriller, horror or psycho thriller types. But a prolife or afterlife treatment of centre plots is never an easy task. The author being a healer has the perfect mix of personal experiences and exposure in handling real life NDE (near to death) cases and thus has been able to craft a novel like Numi.

The story is narrated through the eyes of the lead named Nuha who is a lady healer (may be the author's shadow??) in search of quenching her curiosity about earthly existence of life vs spiritual souls. How a sudden meeting carves Nuha's life towards destiny is the novel all about. After our death, the energy stays back in the form of residual or entrapped energy as they say and Nuha through her life's journey tries to capture a shot of those invisible sources of energy through a healer's way. Years back I had read a bestseller book on witchcraft named 'Sacred Evil' by Ipsita Roy. Nupur's Numi reminded me of that book and there lies the success of her novel too. Don’t want to spoil the thrilling experience of the readers by getting into the details of the plot.

However the cover page does not convey the charm of inner contents of the book in my opinion. It could have been far more captivating. Also not sure if the book's tagline in Amazon, Goodreads and elsewhere is mispelled or intentionally left different - 'guarded' mentioned in the book and title but on other places it says 'gaurded' - the meanings are different, so I got little confused. Whatever it may be, but as a reader, we do not get to find many of Numi's genre books in India and so undoubtedly this is going to be one of the torchbearers of the genre in Indian literary spectrum.

Overall, Literoma would like to rate the book as 4*/5*. Looking forward to read more of Nupur's books in future.

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