The Immortals of Meluha – my personal review :)

Am interested in history and fantasies - not the ones that we used to read during the schooling though! And so, it was no wonder that I was so enthusiastic in getting this

book for myself. Especially, who does not get allured by the story of Lord Shiva himself. The reason why a story of Lord Shiva attracts me could be because of the very

same reason that he is usually depicted as the "Destroyer of Evil" and nothing more than that. When am virtually trying to scan through my twenty ei0ght years of life, there

is actually very little that I have heard stories of the Lord. There are bits and pieces though - thanks to my late grand mom, still I could just classify them as stories

involving Lord Shiva and not the story of Lord Shiva.

This is the first one that I have come across completely about Lord Shiva... and I should say am impressed. Especially with the story telling. Also, am not here to comment on the story line.
Unlike some historical or fantasy novels that I have come across, this one stands out in maintaining my curiosity levels at check, as I kept turning every page. And

finally at the end of the book, it does made me feel irritated as to why was there no time for the author to release the next two parts; which, is a very good indeed!!!

Considering that this is the first book by the author, he does provide us chances to highlight that he is a debutant.
While the language used in book fits the best for the characters and makes the book a best read for any novice reader, at times it does make readers like me feel a little

let down. Especially because the era of incidents is said to happen way back when even languages had not even born, and the characters using the current day to day

language, makes it feel a little odd. For the characters of Shiva and Veerbhadra, they suit the best though.

But the way the author tends to interpret the beginnings of the currently well known phrases "Har har Mahadev", "Aumn" and many other things impressed me a lot. Am

sure the author had his fair chance of research on this work because all I got when I googled Meluha, was an article by a famous Archaeologist which turned out to be a

White paper on interpreting the symbols from the Age of the Indus valley civilization and few other pages that described very little on the lost city.

The expressions maintained for every character in every page is worth talking about. Include the way the fights were portrayed in words in the impressive list, though I did find myself relating the Vikharma team saving the valley to the well-known movie 300 fighting in the valley.The book is made more entertaining in the way of any Indian movie with a mix of romance, anger, fights, sentiments, religious and diving feelings. Any person would love reading the book interpreting the yet another Avatar of Lord Shiva.

As a person who is a believer of the presence of God (and not the form of God!), I think this book did provide me a platform to understand yet another story in which an Indian God lashes and destroys evil. And it is sure that I would be eagerly waiting for the next book to reach the book shelves, in spite of the missing pages in the new copy of the book that I purchased :)