Books and Musings

📗BOOK: Chinese Spies 📗AUTHOR: Roger Faligot 📗GENRE: Non-Fiction 📗THEME: Chinese Spy network, Making of China 📝RATING: ⚡Content: 4.5/5 ⚡Literature- 3.9/5 📖CONTENT: This book enumerates the series of events spanning from 1920s to the present era about the intricate spy network created by Zhou Enlai which has strengthened through the decades and impacted the world at large. The books consists of some of the first hand accounts collected by the author to showcase the impact of Chinese Spy network at a global stage which impacted Superpower countries and third world countries at large. ✒VERDICT  🥇Pros:  1) The depth of research done by the author has completely blown my mind. This book is filled with facts and the information is exhaustive. This adds to the credibility of the book. 2) The author has paced the chronology in a very gripping manner which hooked me as a reader to understand the sequence of events right from the early 20th century. 3) This book was a fascinating ...

  📗BOOK: The Queen of Nothing 📗AUTHOR: Holly Black 📗GENRE: Fantasy Fiction 📗THEME: Rise of Mortal being in Faerieland 📖RATING:  ⚡Storyline- 4.5/5  ⚡Literature- 4.1/5 📝PLOT: Jude Duarte faced one of her biggest betrayals and humiliation when she was exhiled to the mortal world after becoming the Queen of Elf by the one person she was beginning to trust and fall in love with- Cardan, the High King of Elflame. Jude was desperately looking for any remote opportunity which could end her exile and take her back to the Faerieland. So when Taryn requested her twin, Jude, to take her place in the inquest for Locke's murder, Jude agreed. What follows is a deadly coup to take over the throne of Elflame.  💫Is their relationship just a matter of convenience and deal? 💫Will Cardan be able to retain his Blood Crown amidst so many contenders for the throne? ✒VERDICT  🥇Pros: 1) Holly Black creates a masterpiece in the form of a trilogy where the interest does not waver ...