Author: Vishwas Mudagal
Publisher: Fingerprint
ISBN:
97881723449311
Genre: Adventure
Pages: 350
Source: Flipkart Review Program
Rating: 4/5
INTRO
Sometimes simplicity of the
characters attracts you more than the plot, how the story flows and takes you
along with the journey of few interesting events. Losing My Religion is tale of
success, failure, adventure, friendship, love and the mind games. It is a
win-win situation for an author as well as reader when characters of a novel
captivates you and provoke you to read the whole book in a go. Without being preachy, author weaved the life
lessons so amazingly into his debut novel.
STRUCTURE
Losing My Religion is such a gripping
tale of an entrepreneur, Rishi Rai whose life journey is somewhat like a
rollercoaster ride. After establishing his name into gaming industry, he was
sure for his next big project when suddenly his life took a fatal turn and
everything ripped apart. He lost not only money but faith too. Like a random wanderer
he left his place for an upcoming, unpredictable journey, where he met Alex and
the sensuous cum intellectual Kyra. And how these three people bonded to each
other just after few meetings that simply terrific.
As the genre goes it is an
adventurous tale, so you got to enjoy the interesting destinations as well.
Jhumpa Lahiri said “ Books make you travel without putting the feet out of bed”
It is that kind of piece, there were beaches, long lasting chats, few scintillating moments and a Quaint
place Malana. Few scenes fixed into Haridwar, if you ever get a chance to visit
there, it definitely makes you feel more connected with the story.
NARRATION
Anybody can write but it takes a
skillful talent to write into reader's language, expressions matter most, more than words sometimes, so yes novel was written in
simple form, including local dialect, I can’t say it was crisp narration but
has potential to hooked you up till the end. If you are gaming addict, you
would have enjoyed this thrilling story totally. A perfect blend of Love and
adventure, I can’t put it into a classic list but it proved itself a fascinating
read, for sure. You can make your weekend worthy with it.
READER’s MOMENT
When the heart has decided, no
reasoning works - Kyra
You can’t be a spectator. You need to
act. At the hour of reckoning, only the truest love survives - Rishi
I was running away from the failure
instead of facing the reality and the brutes…that I had taken the easy way out
in life. For a person like me, who revels in the beauty of creating, who finds
reverence in his work, my own religion had become turncoat…had turned into a festering
wound that would not heal despite my various attempts to do exactly that… The
demons that were plaguing me were not outside but living inside me, In the shape
of my obsession with success.
At times you have to lose your faith
in something, be absolutely stone cold broke in your belief in belief, so that
you can take the jump, leap out of the existence you have wrapped around
yourself and take the plunge without thinking of the consequences. You will
fall not doubt. But sometimes during that, you will witness a miracle taking
shape around you. That’s called losing my religion.
ABOUT AUTHOR
Vishwas Mudagal is a No.1 best-selling author and a well-known serial entrepreneur and CEO based in Bangalore, India. Storytelling is his passion and he has taken it up as his parallel career. His debut novel 'Losing My Religion' went on to become a great success with a global fan base. With his unique writing style, he has been called a master storyteller by the media and the readersHe is currently the CEO and Co-founder of GoodWorkLans. An alumnus of RV College of Engineering Banglore. He started his first company at the age of eighteen to educate students in rural Kanrnataka.