WATER BOARDING
by
Bragadeesh Prasanna
Blurb
As a torture technique, Waterboarding involves the torturer to pour water over the face of the captive, over a damp towel to give a sensation of drowning. While the mind knows that he is not actually drowning, the captive's body sends contrasting signals to the brain making it a very painful experience.
Ved, who just got out of a life-changing accident finds out that he has blank spaces in his memory. He is unsure about his past and uncertain about his future but goes through with the present with the help of his friend Sara. Sara slowly builds Ved's past, filling him with people and instances he had forgotten.
As Ved struggles with the financial strain caused by his accident and subsequent medical bills and figuring out whom to trust, Ved is forced to live in the moment, which is dark, terrifying and maddening as his past catches up with him. Will he finally know who he was and how his past actions affect his present?
My Honest Review:
Waterboarding is love triangle story of Ved, Maya, and
Sara.
Life throws them into a strange situation
when Ved meets with an accident and he suffers memory loss. He not only suffers
from physical pain but also from mental agony as his mental slate is filled
with any blank patches which cause confusion and mental anguish.
Though the story plot is good, the book has
too many flaws. In a couple of instances, the chapter starts with first-person
narration as an entry in the diary but somewhere in middle, it switches to
third-person narration and back again to the first person.
All three protagonists are so confused
about their relationships that leave the reader too confused. This along with
few editing errors, too many characters coming and going and different
timelines of each protagonist’s journal entry adds to too many confusion.
With proper editing and little clear and
interesting narration, Waterboarding would definitely make a better
read.
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About the author
Bragadeesh Prasanna is a Chennai based writer, who blogs, writes short stories and sometimes lets his stories stretch itself to become a full fledged novel. His romance novel, 300 days, which released in 2016, received generally positive reviews. He had also contributed to different short story anthologies like After the Floods (Published by sixth sense publication), From Chennai, with Love (Curated by Chennai Bloggers Club)
When he is not writing or dreaming about writing, he runs a marketing agency in Chennai, which specializes in digital marketing. He loves his scotch and coffee, chicken biriyani, Rose milk and Chennai. You can just type in his full name in Google search bar to reach his blog. No, seriously, try it.
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