Do you have a love for mythological fiction? Then what's can be better than Hindu mythology. Set in the time of the Great Indus Valley Civilization, Amish Tripathy very beautifully narrated the story of the great Hindu god, God of the gods, Shiva. According to the narrator, thousands of years ago, the Hindu gods and goddesses we worship today were just ordinary human beings of flesh and blood with extraordinary deeds, deeds nowadays we can imagine that only special people with special powers can do those and establish them as our gods and goddesses. Immortals of Meluha is the first book of the Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathy, which narrates the story how a simple villager, Shiva becomes the Mahadev.
The Immortals of Meluha is one of the best books to have been written. From the way it builds up at a perfect pace, to each and every detail about the characters, this book is an entralling combination of action, suspense, thrill , romance and kinship.
Shiva, the titular protagonist of the trilogy has been shown as a strong human with robust qualities of a leader. There is no exaggeration of Shiva's character, as I expected there would be ( in the foresight).
The romantic storyline between Shiva and Sati is totally old school and pure. This book also puts forth the importance of good friends and friendship. There is a dynamic revelation towards the end that contributes to the awesomeness of this book.
Amish is a wordsmith and he has incredulously proved it through this book.
Amish's 'The Immortals of Meluha' takes you back around 4000 years and you begin imagining the Hindu mythology' s gods with Amish's eyes.. This pure work of excellence captures the reader and just goes on making him imagine and showing Lord Shiva from the author's eyes. It is a story of a common man whose good deeds transform him into the great Mahdev. Amish has very well brought up all the elements of Shiva's character be it the care and compassion for the weak, be it the wisdom and depth in thoughts, be it the doting husband that Shiva is ,be it the valour of the great warrior Lord Shiva, be it the excellent dancer that Shiva is, be it the anger he possess for something going wrong. The book has light elements too and Amish has very wisely used almost all characters from Lord Shiva's life to be characters in his book beginning from Shiva's wife Sati to Nandi to Daksha to everything. The book just entraps you into it's mystery by the excellent description and mind blowing dialogues.. It's definitely worth a read...for those of you who are searching for a book to be their first one this might be it.
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