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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Metamorphing by Kunal Pancholi : A Review



BOOK TITLE: Metamorphing
ISBN: 9789383562992
AUTHOR: Kunal Pancholi
GENRE: Suspense/ Thriller/ Paranormal
NUMBER OF PAGES: 250
FORMAT: Paperback
SERIES / STANDALONE: Metamorphing #1
REVIEW BY: Dhivya Balaji
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SUMMARY:
28TH APRIL, 2000: Flight No. 9x4876 bound to Srinagar has crash landed into the Everest Base camp. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the flight mysteriously went off the radar for few minutes and missed its landing. All passengers are feared dead… except for three bodies that are yet to be recovered.
8TH DECEMBER, 2050: This, without doubt is the most gruesome murder in recent times. Early this morning, an unidentified woman was found mutilated at the western gates of the abandoned Victoria Terminus Station in Mumbai. Authorities report her head was … well … semi-decapitated and she was drained of all her blood. The shocking part - the crime scene was devoid of any signs of blood spatter…
ROHAN: He was shorter than the shortest girl in school; he had to be ahead in the game!
RUDRA: A man without a past, coaxed into a murder investigation; will he ever grasp the true nature of the crime?

A thrilling tale about two men bound by an untraceable yet undeniable fate - One running away from his past, another unaware of his own.
REVIEW:
          Metamorphing – The word that was not a word by itself. One word titles do not often manage to capture the imagination of the reader but this one did. I picked up the book feeling thoroughly confused, questioning my own spelling skills (wasn’t it metamorphosing we were talking about?) but the book does justice to the ‘misspelling’. It is not about metamorphosing as a whole.
          With just the right amount of piqued curiosity and apprehension about the proficiency of the author’s language, (Sorry to Mr. Kunal Pancholi – please read the next sentence) I took up this book. But thankfully, I was proven wrong on all my doubts and apprehensions about this book. Breaking the suspense, the language is brilliant, easy, with no technical jargon and fluid enough to read.
          The story is about two men, and it progresses in alternating chapters. One man, Rudra, wakes up from an accident in 2050, his memories washed away. He is asked to be a private detective by a woman whose son is wrongly accused of murder. Rudra takes up the assignment assuming that he had been a detective in his life before his memories got washed away.
          The alternating chapters chronicle the life of Rohan, the shortest guy in his class, trying to find love, and living the life of a normal youngster at the millennium year. His lady love Gina, his friend since childhood reciprocates his interest and life is going great guns for him. But a plane crash during a tour from which he is the lone survivor changes his life forever. He comes back five years after everyone presumed him dead and Gina has remarried, only his parents are still in wait for him.
          The tale progresses with Rudra’s investigation on one end and Rohan’s second lease of life on the other end. Both are equally well written and somehow the feeling that they will coincide is overwhelming for the reader. Some such stories about shape shifting and the paranormal tend to be shoddily scripted or preposterous. But metamorphing is believable, acceptable and clear in its concepts.
          The characters are well etched and each scene has a bearing over the progress of the story. The premise is unique and though not unheard of, definitely new and refreshing. The plot is built with suspense until the penultimate page and the twist at the end is brilliantly crafted. There are certain loopholes obvious to the reader. But by the time you come to the end of the story you forget the questions you had!
WHAT I LIKED: The language, plot and the story.
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER: There are certain loopholes that could have been avoided
VERDICT: Go for it! You won’t regret reading this book.
RATING: 4.3/5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
(For a change, in his own words)
I graduated from SRCC Delhi in 2001. A college best known to churn out the most formidable of CAs, I realised I wasn't cut out for it. An odd banking job for couple years and I managed to get into NMIMS Mumbai for an MBA (2004-2006).

In my professional career since then, I have worked with banks (2 banks across 4 years), co-founded READO - an audio book publishing company and did a marketing stint with a film production company in Mumbai.

Currently I head the function of sales & marketing at a technology start-up. I live in Chennai with my wife, parents, sister and grand-mom.

I like watching movies, Mystery / crime shows are my favourite pastime on TV and I love south Indian cuisine.
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PRICE: Rs.223 for Paperback
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