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Even Good Girls | Nicholas Jordan | Book Review

Ignorance hurts the most and when the source of the ignorance is your only best friend then it's unacceptable and heart-wrenching. Imagining school life without a friend is a nightmare. Tabitha and Nancy are best friends from 7th grade, their friendship is hardwired and unbreakable.

Tabitha owes her entire social life to Nancy. Because Nancy is the one in their friendship, who is communicative and cordial, she is the one who has smooth, flawless skin, perfect curves, and shiny long brunette hair. Even in the brain's department, she is on top of the chart as she is the topper of the school. She is a beauty with a brain. While on the other hand, Tabitha is the opposite of Nancy, because she thinks her personality is so average, she considers herself only as a scrawny, flat-chested girl with blonde pigtails.

But senior year comes with lots of vicissitudes. Nancy involves herself with more popular girls of the college and completely sidelines her best friend. Nancy starts ignoring Tabitha and that is hurtful and annoying for her because without Nancy the count of friends Tabitha has is zero. Later on the same topic, they both get mad at each other, as a result, Tabitha gets more silent treatment and ignorance from her best friend. Before Tabitha hash things out with Nancy, she is found dead and according to rumors of high school and police investigation, her best friend Tabitha is the prime suspect.

What can you do for your friend? A friend whom you haven't met or interacted with for 15 years; if that friend asks for your help in a most unusual way by sending you an email. Are you going to help that friend of yours? But for that, you have to go to your hometown where the air still holds the smell of your eerie past. Now tell me, are you going to help your friend? Are you a good friend?

Emily Moore is a waitress by profession and lives a workaholic and stressful life, though everything soothes as she comes home and embraces her daughter Lucy.

One fine day, opening an old friend's email whom she hasn't talked to in 15 years, becomes a profuse debt for her to pay. The mail isn't inviting Emily for a reunion, but it is a desperate plea from her childhood friend Ali, who is in some kind of terrible trouble which isn't mentioned in the mail.

A day's inquiry leads Emily to the groundbreaking news that her friend Ali is missing and it takes Emily to the lands of her hometown, years back, where she takes oaths not to visit it in her life ever. But that mysterious mail and destiny ensnare her as soon as she inhales the air of that city.

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Minuscules | Priyanka Bhatt | Book Review Review Minuscules is a debut novel of the author Priyanka Bhatt, this book has a collection of short stories, nano tales, and few liners which have a mixture of themes, like; Love, romance, betrayal, agony, society, depression, and some goofy stuff.  Author Priyanka Bhatt tried her best to put every kind of emotion into the book. The acknowledgement section is very poignant and inspiring and it creates a huge vibe for the whole book and I was expecting an intense read. But as it contains variant emotion in variant forms, here the author's imagination failed.  There are very few stories and few-liners seem new to me, others felt forced and Bollywood cliches.  Most of the story plots were nondescript, there was nothing anomalous or exceptional in them to read. The main highlight of the book is the author Priyanka Bhatt, she has a commendable way of writing, the way she gives the minute details of scenes is stupendous.  I think she should write a fictional book that is inspired by her own story. That would be a way more relatable work for every reader, and even it will inspire others. The book is a blend of colloquial and literary language which is very easy to read. You can read it in less than two hours even if you read it with full patience to understand the deeper meaning. This is a very lite book anyone can easily read and understand, though I suggest if you have this in your kindle library then you can give it a try to get over a book hangover, otherwise, you should go for other options.