Name of the Book-Let the Game begin
Author-Sandeep Sharma
Publisher-Inspire India
Blurb-
Two kingdoms, Chaturanga and Sarprakt, separated by a mystic mountain range are at war with each other since ages. Chaturanga, ruled by King Viratha, is soon bestowed with a dynamic heir, and the whole kingdom is drowned in rituals and festivity. On the other side, Sarprakt is executing a cruel conspiracy. King Viratha, crippled by the conspiracy, urges the mysterious man of the mountain to devise a method to recreate the conspiracy and that gave birth to ‘The Game of Chess’.
Serial killings shock the nation as the police are rendered clueless. The killer leaves behind a trail of chess pieces with a strange message. Random people are murdered. Connoisseurs of different fields – History, Chess and the Security forces – have united as the next intended victim is the most powerful person of the country. How is Chess involved in the whole scenario? How will they find a man who died 4000 years ago? Can a person defy the laws of nature? Does history really repeat itself? Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Review-
'Chess was never just a Game. ' This catchy line in the cover itself reveals a lot about the plot of the novel. 'Let The Game Begin' is a story about two kingdoms -Chaturanga and Sarpakt. Let me start with the prologue first. It will totally leave you clueless. You won't make any sense of it until and unless you read the complete story. This can be interpreted as a technique used by the author to provoke his readers to continue reading this novel.
One will not find any male/female protagonist in the whole novel. Or you can say, all the characters share an equal worth in the novel. This makes the book even more interesting as it goes against the traditional norm of having one male and one female protagonist. The story starts with a murder set in the present time. Murder acts as a backbone of the whole story. The novel witnesses a series of murders henceforth. All the murders are linked to the rivalry between two kingdoms-Sarpakt and Chaturanga. These two kingdoms are believed to have existed around 4000 years ago.
There is a lot of digression in the story.This reminds me of another book. It is titled as 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy ' by Laurence Sterne. But the digressions can be linked back to the plot. Some may not like these digressions while some may enjoy them. One would have complained about the lack of female presence in the book, had the author not created the character of the female Prime Minister. Towards the end of the book, the whole notion of. gender politics is rotated. Equal importance is given to the female characters. This would act as an agent to tempt more and more female readers to read this book.
If you are used to get bored and disappointed by reading long chapters that seem to have no end, then here, Sandeep Sharma will not disappoint you. The longest chapter in this book is Chapter 25,which is just nine pages long. So, this book will not make you get bored. The language used is very simple and lucid. The target audience is the common man. This takes us back to the age of Romantic literature -the age of Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Burns Coleridge and Shelley.So,if you are a Baahubali fan, go for this book. You will enjoy reading the story of Chaturanga kingdom as much as you enjoyed seeing the magnificence and glory of Maahismati kingdom.
Rating-3.9/5
Link -http://www.amazon.in/Let-Game-Begin-SANDEEP-SHARMA/dp/9385783467
Reviewer -Heena Priya( author.heena@gmail.com)
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