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The Rozabal Line (2007)

by Ashwin Sanghi(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0615384501 (ISBN13: 9780615384504)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Northhill Publishing

review 1: I read it because I was told this author is India's Dan Brown variant. It should have been my first clue but I ignored it. There is a lot of material that is fun to read at first but later becomes as important as the plot itself. Sanghi tries to bring all religions under one umbrella and the philosophy of karma. Several things happen at the same time interrupting the pace quite often. These incidents clutter the story further and the characters make little to no sense. In the end they don't fit in together and may be for a story such as this, may be that was the intention?There is no doubt about the effort that has gone into research and writing this but in the end it doesn't deliver what the blurb promises.
review 2: Facts in the book seem well researched. But... more it felt less like a novel and more like a collection of facts.Too many sub plots developing at the same time. Too many events to keep track of. More than one line of thought pursued in so much detail you often wonder what the book is trying to get to. Often, the main plot is lost since the author delves too much into history. Unfortunately the use of Regression therapy for the progression of the story disappointed me. It felt a lot like a Bollywood movie at that point. Some wordplay here and there is interesting but after sometime it seems so deliberate that you may lose interest. The book begins with a murder but ends with...A concept. The book felt like a mish mash of the author's research. I think the story was used just to loosely complement the author's research.While I enjoyed how the author tried to connect most religions with a common undercurrent, it was in vein after the story progressed considerably.Good effort by Ashwin Sanghi, I must say . But it could have been better. less

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