Title: How To Steal A Ghost @ Manipal
Author: Shweta Taneja
Publisher: Juggernaut
Review:
Sparsely written but thorough, Shweta Taneja’s ‘How to Steal
a Ghost @ Manipal’ is one teenager’s experiences spirit-hunting across
contemporary Manipal. At the same time it is a love triangle that propels most
of the story.
Twinkle Kashyap has joined Manipal University to be with her
childhood love, Rohit Dandi, who wants nothing more than to be a famous
paranormal investigator and save everyone from the tantrums of the dead.
One thing leads to another and Twinkle a.k.a Tinker enters into an unbidden
internship with a famous parapsychologist Professor Das and gets involved in a
world of paranormal activity. Between studying, ghost-busting and day dreaming,
she has to brave the Wiccan witch Lydia who seems to all cozy up with her one
true love. To her horror, Rohit reciprocates to Lydia’s advances in kind and
soon they are a couple much to Twinkle’s dismay. To keep her sanity intact,
Twinkle creates a distance between her friends and herself and immerses her
sorrow in the professor’s lab. The real story starts then.
The story is intriguing but the somewhat uneven exploration
of things leave things hanging. Shweta’s prose is descriptive but never
flowery, and she rarely wastes words. On one level the book is well-done, with
plenty of vivid details and individual scenes showing the conflict. But the
passion is missing. I also came across some typos, but nothing that
couldn’t be overlooked. Overall not a bad read. And as usual, I look forward to reading her next release. This one is an author to look out for.
About the Author:
Shweta Taneja is a fantasy author based in Bangalore. She's written seven books and two hundred articles in a career spanning fourteen years. She's a Charles Wallace India Writing Fellow (UK, 2016) and was shortlisted for Best Writer Award in ComicCon India. Her latest book How to Steal a Ghost @ Manipal is out with Juggernaut Books and climbing the bestselling charts.
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