The Oath of the Vayuputras The Shiva Trilogy (Audible Audio Edition) Amish Tripathi Raj Ghatak Jo Fletcher Books Books
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Today, Shiva is a god. But 4,000 years ago, he was just a man - until he brought his people to Meluha, a near-perfect empire founded by the great king Lord Ram. There he discovered he was the Neelkanth, a barbarian long prophesied to be Meluha's saviour. But in his hour of victory fighting the Chandravanshis - Meluha's enemy - he discovered they had their own prophecy.
Now he must fight to uncover the treachery within his inner circle and unmask those who are about to destroy all that he has fought for. Shiva is about to learn that good and evil are two sides of the same coin....
The Oath of the Vayuputras The Shiva Trilogy (Audible Audio Edition) Amish Tripathi Raj Ghatak Jo Fletcher Books Books
First of all, let's give credit where it's due. Amish has successfully created a great universe of Ancient India and has tied it quite nicely with all of our mythology. From that perspective, the buildup of the last two books, as far as the story goes, was also quite good. That's what the 3 stars for the review are.But, in the end, that's where the brilliance of the trilogy ends. I really wanted to like this book. I was willing to look past the simplistic writing, the uninspired dialog, and silly character motivations. As long as the story was tight. It wasn't.
I hate it when a book or a movie ends badly. I don't mean tragically, or in a way that is different than I expected. I simply mean a bad ending. Where you get a sense that the author did not really know how to conclude so he or she just wrapped it up somehow. In this book, you get a sense that the author always knew what the epilogue was going to be, and that is not bad. But the conclusion is what should have been thought out better. Far better. What happens more or less negates everything else that the book was leading up to. And plus the whole climax hinged on the stupidity of one single character. When that happens, you know that the ending is forced.
The other big problem I had with the book is that Shiva really doesn't do much in this book at all. He is simply roaming around India and is a part of only one battle where the enemies were anyways vastly outnumbered. So the premise of the trilogy - a mortal human becoming a God for the people due to his deeds - is in the end just lip service.
Besides these two big problems, there were several smaller problems throughout the book. Karthik, who was born in the second book is a brilliant strategist, warrior and leader in this book. It's very difficult to follow the time that has passed in the book. A few people are randomly righteous, moral, idiotic, brilliant at the switch of the author's buttons. The author gets too fixated trying to explain engineering and scientific marvels. The title is totally redundant - the so-called oath of vayuputras plays a very small role in the book. Several events in the book are forced. Especially things that drive war events. Language of the book is really terrible. English itself is fine. But contemporary colloquial English did nothing to set the mood of the period.
So, all in all, not that great a trilogy. Amish had a great idea. Maybe he should have waited and fleshed out how he wanted the story to proceed. Maybe he should have read Lord of the Rings a little bit more to understand the writing technique for such a novel. The series is anyways a success already. But it's stopped short of being great.
PS - I have left out any spoilers here. Specifics on what things are good and bad about the book is a discussion for another time.
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The Oath of the Vayuputras The Shiva Trilogy (Audible Audio Edition) Amish Tripathi Raj Ghatak Jo Fletcher Books Books Reviews
I feel bad writing a critical review as authors put so much into the writing. But this is a book that did not live up to the lofty heights I expected from it, leading up from the previous two books. A lot of people have written about the inappropriateness of modern slang, and I agree with them. It just does not fit in with the mental picture of the characters I have in my head.
The book was nice, but there was something missing that I can't precisely put my finger on. I found the battle of Sati very profoundly moving and gripping! Very well done. But I wanted something more out of Shiva's reaction! The bursting of the 'third eye' somehow should have had more righteous violence associated with it. Something along the lines of Shiva's stories of burning destruction that I have been brought up with as a child. Somehow, after Sati's death, most of the characters, notably Shiva and Bhrigu seemed diminished and hollow. Even the description of Ganesha and Karthik avenging their mother had a flat tone to it. I wanted more soul. Made me wonder if the author was in a time crunch to get it done and proceeded to do just that by tying up all the loose ends as quickly as he could. Which would not have given him much of a chance to delve into the intricacies of emotion that an event like that would inspire.
In spite of it, I did enjoy reading the book and look forward to the author's next venture.
In this 3rd and final volume of the Shiva Trilogy, the author does a really good job of providing readers a possible origin for many of the Hindu mythologies. This is an amazing trilogy in many ways that involved an incredible amount of research and creative thinking. I'm a published author who often incorporates ancient history into my own stories, but I would never try to undertake a project as massive as this one. The only historical aspects that seemed to be far too speculative are a few in this final volume (I'm a Akhenaten fanatic, for instance, but have never heard of "the cult of assassins of Aten" who the author claims existed many years before Akhenaten lived/ruled), but they do little harm to the excellent main narrative. This is the longest of the three books in the trilogy, and I would suggest readers take notes so they don't get confused as to who's-who and city names as they are very long names and often very similar.
I learned a lot from these books and enjoyed reading them.
I was surprised to have read this book in a single sitting. It was not as strong as the earlier novels with a lot of momentum lost in tedious overly described but under actioned battles. Shiva was largely relegated to the background and his ultimate development seemed contrived by the end. He was built up to be a man who became a God, but by the end I was doubtful of that as his character motivations lacked the depth I would have expected given the source material is so rich.
Ganesh was a standout character with the best lines and development overrall. I was disappointed in the confused timelines around Karthikeya which reduced the element of engaging storyline. Unnecessary scientific explanation was terribly misplaced and the author seemed to be attempting to impress the reader with his research. This fails.
With all this the series ends with a lot more questions than answers. Why the 4 stars? In an overrall sense this is a truly captivating series. The final scenes involving the character of Sati is so epic, the scale of grandeur and emotion scales it's highest point and worthy of the 4 Stars alone. Poetic.
I will read the Ram Chandra series. Hope we get a more refined effort as the author does have fair grasp of contrast and conflict. Although a lot more time needs to be spent in establishing characters throughout a series.
First of all, let's give credit where it's due. Amish has successfully created a great universe of Ancient India and has tied it quite nicely with all of our mythology. From that perspective, the buildup of the last two books, as far as the story goes, was also quite good. That's what the 3 stars for the review are.
But, in the end, that's where the brilliance of the trilogy ends. I really wanted to like this book. I was willing to look past the simplistic writing, the uninspired dialog, and silly character motivations. As long as the story was tight. It wasn't.
I hate it when a book or a movie ends badly. I don't mean tragically, or in a way that is different than I expected. I simply mean a bad ending. Where you get a sense that the author did not really know how to conclude so he or she just wrapped it up somehow. In this book, you get a sense that the author always knew what the epilogue was going to be, and that is not bad. But the conclusion is what should have been thought out better. Far better. What happens more or less negates everything else that the book was leading up to. And plus the whole climax hinged on the stupidity of one single character. When that happens, you know that the ending is forced.
The other big problem I had with the book is that Shiva really doesn't do much in this book at all. He is simply roaming around India and is a part of only one battle where the enemies were anyways vastly outnumbered. So the premise of the trilogy - a mortal human becoming a God for the people due to his deeds - is in the end just lip service.
Besides these two big problems, there were several smaller problems throughout the book. Karthik, who was born in the second book is a brilliant strategist, warrior and leader in this book. It's very difficult to follow the time that has passed in the book. A few people are randomly righteous, moral, idiotic, brilliant at the switch of the author's buttons. The author gets too fixated trying to explain engineering and scientific marvels. The title is totally redundant - the so-called oath of vayuputras plays a very small role in the book. Several events in the book are forced. Especially things that drive war events. Language of the book is really terrible. English itself is fine. But contemporary colloquial English did nothing to set the mood of the period.
So, all in all, not that great a trilogy. Amish had a great idea. Maybe he should have waited and fleshed out how he wanted the story to proceed. Maybe he should have read Lord of the Rings a little bit more to understand the writing technique for such a novel. The series is anyways a success already. But it's stopped short of being great.
PS - I have left out any spoilers here. Specifics on what things are good and bad about the book is a discussion for another time.
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