Deception Point by Dan Brown

Now I have read all the published work of Dan Brown. And he did not disappoint me in this also.

The story revolves around literally in "high places", starting from White House then moving to NASA space station in Artic and finally coming back to white house. Intelligence agent Rachel Sexton, also the daughter of Presidential candidate who is expected to throw the present president out of the white house, is suddenly summoned by the President of United States himself. Within a short time she finds herself in the NASA space station. Her mission? To verify and endorse the latest NASA finding! And this might mean a lot to NASA, The President and many others. All is going well until suddenly Rachel senses something wrong. She and others start digging for the truth and it is not so long before they see danger. Their lives are in danger! Now it is time to struggle for their lives as well as for the truth....

I have been a fan of Dan Brown and his writing skills and this book convinced me into continuing to be so. Dan Brown always manage to reveal the unlikeliest person to be the real villain, but in this one I managed to guess him long before the revealation. May be I read so much by him! But still I remain loyal to him.

A true mystery thriller. 4 out of 5.

2009 : A retrospection

No of books read : 17 (not bad! but can't I do better?)

Non fiction : 1 (Oops!!)

Author I read most : Agatha Christie(That was expected)

Biggest Letdowns:

Biggest Surprises:

 

Favourite of 2009:

Wish list for 2010: 

Shantaram

The man who knew infinity.

Secrets and Lies.

Alchemist.

.........and many more.

Adayalangal by Sethu

I started reading this award-winning novel with much anticipation. I had read only short stories of sethu before. The starting seems promising. But as chapters passed by I realised that this is not going anywhere. There were sub plots and new characters being introduced but the story is not moving. And then suddenly I realised that I am reading the last chapter. "Did I miss some chapter in between? "That was my reaction.

The story is about a mother and daughter who are living in their small world. Priyamvada, the divorced mother is an accomplished HR Manager who has handled many a crisis alone, both on the professional and personal front.  But suddenly she is faced with many personal hardships including her young daughter becoming her enemy. Most of the book describes this phase of priyamvada's life and how she tries to deal with it.

May be I am not mature enough to understand this kind of literature. May be I am reading so much of thrillers Somebody please tell me where I went wrong.
3 out of 5.