Wednesday 9 August 2017

The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi

Book: The Oath of the Vayuputras.
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland Publications Ltd. (www.westlandbooks.in)
ISBN : 978 93 82618 34 8

My personal opinion, already expressed, in my previous reviews of author Amish Tripathis books has been, he is an awesome author, he has picked up the vastly neglected genre of Indian mythology and he has a very deft interweave of storyline and fiction and culture. I thought there were some areas which he could improve on. He has vastly improved over his first 2 books.

This is the 3rd book of the Shiva trilogy. These were the books where Amish was checking his forte his boundaries, trying to refine them.
Being his ardent fan I yet criticized his penchant for going into detail of every scientific experiment.
In this book, Amish really came into the flowing, narratives that he is now famous for.

This book has a multitude of Indian mythology characters, and very nice interweave of mythological fables and a human narrative.

Shiva, the favourite Hindu God, Neelkanth, finally reaches his destination, where his destiny and arch nemesis is revealed.

Shiva gathers his forces, his Nagas and also the Vayuputras. The final battle.

In fact forget everything else, all the pages, all the 2 previous books, this book is worth the buy and read just for the description of the final battle, the emotions of Shiva and the description of the weapons used and the war.

A definite must buy and must read.



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