8 Hours by Upendra Namburi

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Blurb:
Aratrika Reddy, the charismatic CEO of ARYA Holdings Ltd., has just 8 Hours to save her company from certain bankruptcy.

The multi-billion dollar hotels to steel conglomerate, founded by her mercurial father, liquor baron Madhusudhan Reddy, has many suitors, all of them plotting a hostile takeover. Aratrika’s estranged husband, Siddhartha is one of them. His inside knowledge is the real ace up his sleeve. The Rathores, the Reddys’ arch-rivals are looking to buy ARYA too and thereby settle old scores.

Aratrika has to weave her way through a litany of lawyers, politicians, bankers, bureaucrats, investors, power brokers and her dreaded family. Behind the scenes, Jagannath Rao, her wily uncle, is playing a dangerous double game of manipulation. Her father Madhusudan is furiously pulling the strings from behind the scenes. To add to the confusion, overseeing the whole sale process is her old flame, Peter.

Over the course of a single night, 8 Hours to be precise, Aratrika must fight the demons at the gates of her company and those within. It’s a fight to the bitter end.

A fight that Aratrika does not want to lose…



Review:
Power! It’s something that every human being has a desire to possess. “You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them.” 8 Hours is one such story where everyone crave for the Power. It’s not just hang around Power Alone, There’s also an another element REVENGE. Aratrika Reddy, the CEO of Arya Holdings Ltd, one of the leading Business Company in India. She Not only need to save her company from bankruptcy, but also making it to fall in the hands of evil people. The Devouring Business Tycoons, Avenging Family Friend, Aratrika’s Ex-Husband everyone is in the race to destroy ARYA.

This is Upendra Namburi’s third book which is also falling under the number series like his previous two books. We all know what the ending of the story is. But need to know HOW, it’s at the point where the author’s ability to narrate a story brilliantly lies. The narration is like a rainbow cake. One need to be patient and lay the layers of the cake one by one. And the end result is something which satisfies both; one who involved in baking and also one who enjoy eating it.

The Author first starts building the characters. And then pitch the story in such a way that you keep flipping the pages. The sharp narration along with unexpected turns or twists helped the story to flow with an ease. At very first I used to verify whether the time slot is enough for the conversation to be made. I used to question myself. Does this really happen in 4mins? Don’t you feel that’s pretty fast? Naah! This is not happening in just 4mins. Oh! By just a phone call? Multiple doubts were running through my brain. Which actually ruined my reading pace. What happened next was I just enjoyed reading without bothering or thinking too much about that. And to my little surprise I was connected to the story, wanted to know what is going to be Aratrika’s next move!

Aratrika’s character was powerful enough! The narration about her phases of life right from the childhood, everything is supreme. The past events were perfectly interlinked to the main story. There was no single character which felt like it’s just a character it has nothing to do with the story.

Overall, 8 Hours had every single element that the good story should have. Yet I felt something missing. Although the story maintained its quality right from the first page, towards the end precisely the climax was something didn’t satisfy my yearning. I would rate this book with 3.5 stars out of 5.

Meself

SOLD!!


I am so reading this book now!

venkatesan5253

very nice book

Nabs

Thanks for your review