My First Review: The Krishna Key

Disclaimer: The plot of the novel is slightly revealed in the review, people who might want to buy/borrow/steal the book and are into a good mystery please don’t read this post.

I read this book in one sitting on a weekday. I couldn’t tear myself away despite the prospect of a long day at work. I needed to know how it was going to end, I had to know. The book is briskly paced, even though it involved a lot of explaining and debating between the characters. For the lack of a better comparison it is something similar to Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons.  

It is essentially a non-linear narration of a crime novel storyline between the main characters with the story of Mahabharata running in the background. I was able to make the connections faster because I am currently reading Ashok Banker’s Mahabharata/Krishna Coriolis series (at least till the part that has been published).  It was actually more of a history lesson to me that a novel. Every time I see a name I recognized from my old text books, I was itching to Google and find out more about the story. But, I had my inquisitiveness at check because I wanted to get to the end as soon as possible.

Coming to plot, it’s the story of five school friends who are conveniently the most eminent research pundits from the fields of History, Archeology, Physics etc. are working to find out the secret behind Krishna (I am on a very thin line, not getting into details!). They are obviously being tracked by the secret cult whose members are trying to stop from them finding out the “Secret”. Throw in a lot of intrigue and a lot of highway chasing, mountain climbing, cigarette smoking, almond crunching and brand placements at the weirdest of the places (I don’t want to know what brand of loafers the bad guy is wearing!). That would be the basic outline.

But behind the thinly veiled mystery story line are a lot of questions raised by the author which would definitely make us think if not for long about the claims made here. I for one am going to spending this weekend reading the book again. I would probably research about even link the author has tried to make. I guess that the best part of this new genre of books, the so-called speculative fiction. And, I would definitely want to go to the Somnath temple in Gujarat.

The links make by the author using a lot of symbology, etymology, nuclear physics sometimes sound very logical and sometimes the links are so thin that you feel like it’s all a hoax. It reminded me of this south park episode, here's the clip:

All in all, this isn’t meant to be profound but it sure is fun. The author has an economic style of writing which contributes to a very apt atmosphere of being on the fringe - the side of a highway or in the cave on Mount Kailash. You are gripped to your seats trying to get to the next page. Isn’t that what we want in the end, a book which will hold your interest? On this front The Krishna Key is definitely worth reading.

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