Inane Murtaza

We buy books for quite a few reasons. We might have heard a lot about a book and we get our hands on it. A movie adaptation is on its way and we love to see how the book has changed from pages to reel. We want to own the entire collection of our favourite author. Finally, we buy books just because we found the cover beautiful and/or interesting. Guilty as charged, this book comes under the category of beautiful cover. I must say that the cover isn't just the only thing interesting about the book. The basic premise of the book deals with three central characters supported by a few more. Jojo is a 14 year old kid who is born from a white father, Michael, convicted for a felony and Leonie, a black mother addicted to drugs. He was brought by his maternal grandparents lovingly called by him as Pop and Mam along with his sister Michaela alias Kayla. Leonie, Jojo, Kayla and their friend Misty are on a road trip to Parchman as Michael is being released from jail and the adventures that ...

If I ever had to chose between reading about the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, I would always prefer to select the latter as Mahabharata had characters of various shades and hence, the story from the perspective of different characters brings out different shades of the entire story. I still remember "The Palace of Illusions" which was reenactment of Mahabharata with Draupadi as the central character. Karna, the illegitimate son of Kunti was one of my favourite character and reading his story was something I looked forward to. Coming to the book, Karna's Celestial Armor is not a book based on Mahabharata but is a current day plot of an Army man named Vasu who was on a mission to find Karna's Kavach - Kundalam. His adventures while searching for the same is quite aptly described in the book. Vasu travels from Himalayas to Rameshwaram in search of the Celestial Armor. The story is filled with betrayal, suspense, kidnapping, car chases above all others. What...