Book Review of ‘God is a
Gamer’
Publisher – Penguin Books
Genre – Thriller/Fiction
One sentence for the book
Twists
and turns throughout the story keep you engrossed enough, but the detective
within the reader may not be successful to nail the culprit in this thriller till
the last few pages.
About the Author
A career banker and financial services professional, Ravi has
worked with various multinational banks (Citibank, ANZ Grindlays Bank and HSBC)
for over eighteen years. As a result of his extensive background in foreign
banks, writing about banking comes quite naturally to Ravi. His earlier works, If God was a
Banker, The Bankster, Bankerupt are all set against the backdrop of the
financial services industry.
Author’s
Writing Style
Described
as the ‘John Grisham of banking’, by the Wall Street Journal, Ravi has an engrossing style of
writing. Being a banker himself, Ravi is not aloof from what all happens inside
the financial sector, still a positive of his writings is the way he explains
the tiniest details of something technical for not-so technical reader. In a
recent book launch event in Delhi, Ravi interestingly unfolded his success
mantra, “Put a murder in the first few pages and
introduce twists in the tale at the end.”
The Title and Book Cover
I
have been away from the world of books since quite a long time now, but then
came an opportunity to review the book from BlogAdda.com. The title ‘God is a Gamer’ was enough to
excite the reader within me and I thought to give it a try.
The
title indeed is catchy and interesting. It forces the reader to think at least once
that how God has gamed with them. The book perfectly displays how the destiny
can change your lives in a blink, a lesson to be remembered by all of us.
Book
cover has been interestingly designed. A bitcoin image on the cover surely gets
the reader interested to know more about what it is actually. The sub-title ‘Is
Revenge a Crime?’ is another clincher for the reader to already go into the
spreads of imagination of the revenge stories.
About the Book
A
small book of 300+ pages conveniently divided into nearly 100 chapters, it
helps the author portray different characters and emotions at different
locations and connecting the dots seems an effortless task for the reader. Still,
the reader does not lose the hold on
the story at any place neither does the author gives the suspense easily. The
suspense remains ‘a suspense’ till the very last pages. The narration has all
been done in third person. Still, one feels as if all the scenes are happening at
that very moment. The narratives have been given a personal touch. I enjoyed
going through the different scenes in the story, few quite enjoyable, few
little avoidable, but the story has its own pace which grips the reader within
you.
The
book has been widely promoted as a first-ever Bitcoin thriller. Bitcoins, a
virtual currency, has been a mystery for a greater part of the world and this
book tries to capture this unexplored arena. It has added to the surprise
element of the story and also gave enough room for creative imagination to the
author.
Thumbs Up
The climax is surely the greatest
strength for this game of The God since Ravi connects the dots spread all
around the story in an unexpected end to the chain of events. On what unfolds
in the end is surely something surprising, at least for me, it was. Given that
I am not an avid reader and still getting me finish up a book in a single day
calls for another applause for the author.
What could have been better
The
plot of the story is so vast that the author has left going much into detailing
part for a couple of his characters. The emotional connect between the
characters and reader is missing and the reader will hardly care what happened
to the characters post the climax.
However,
given that the book is a thriller, it is reasonably fine to get the story part
demystified and don’t care about the characters in the end.
Rating
Ravi
has surely impressed me with his style. I will rate this one a 4.5/5 and I
would love to read his other books as well.
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