First of all I want to apologize to everyone reading this for the delay in posting the review. I couldn't gather enough thoughts to write a review for the book 3 of Shiva trilogy mainly due to being extremely busy with my profession. Anyway, here goes.
Continuing from where it left in Book 2 (Obviously...), Shiva continues his quest in recognizing and then deciding to eliminate the Evil. Story line is a bit flat as there is next to no character development as almost whole main cast had already been introduced in Book 1 & 2. Book 2 carries the story further and Shiva discovers that Evil may not always be evil in entirety. What is good for one can be evil for other. Also, one has to look at the broader picture to decide whether it is good or bad for society in general.
Major part of the story is wasted in overtly details about the what is going inside Shiva's mind. Honestly, I skipped a couple of score of pages and did not miss anything; and that is saying something. One thing that has been used very well though is time compression. Normally, chapters do not jump over longer durations of time but this one did and how.
Shiva and Sati, despite being the central characters are irritable and display inscrutable behaviour. Cover comes in the form of Ganesha who then explains the situation to readers by means of asking questions to other characters. By then, however, the reader has been taken through the mind numbing action.
It is no comparison to any other series that I have read so far. However, I had distinct feeling of nothingness when I finished other series like, Robert Langdon or Harry Potter which for some reason Shiva trilogy did not leave me with. I finished the series and am OK with it ending up.
Continuing from where it left in Book 2 (Obviously...), Shiva continues his quest in recognizing and then deciding to eliminate the Evil. Story line is a bit flat as there is next to no character development as almost whole main cast had already been introduced in Book 1 & 2. Book 2 carries the story further and Shiva discovers that Evil may not always be evil in entirety. What is good for one can be evil for other. Also, one has to look at the broader picture to decide whether it is good or bad for society in general.
Major part of the story is wasted in overtly details about the what is going inside Shiva's mind. Honestly, I skipped a couple of score of pages and did not miss anything; and that is saying something. One thing that has been used very well though is time compression. Normally, chapters do not jump over longer durations of time but this one did and how.
Shiva and Sati, despite being the central characters are irritable and display inscrutable behaviour. Cover comes in the form of Ganesha who then explains the situation to readers by means of asking questions to other characters. By then, however, the reader has been taken through the mind numbing action.
It is no comparison to any other series that I have read so far. However, I had distinct feeling of nothingness when I finished other series like, Robert Langdon or Harry Potter which for some reason Shiva trilogy did not leave me with. I finished the series and am OK with it ending up.
