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The book tells the events that happen inHours.
A big deal that is happening in the town,

Plot ofHours by Upendra Namburi

The books deal with a DEAL, a huge deal that has an impact on economy, politics, and relations.
A huge organization, ARYA, is at the edge of bankruptcy, There are many parties that made this possible, All the parties have their reasons to destroy ARYA,

Artarikas father enemies
Family conflicts
Financial struggles
Power snatching

Aratrika have a night, and Aratrika has to decide whether to sell the ARYA, or she has to pull all the strings to survive.
She chooses to fight. I am not going to tell what happens, but I can say that this is the book that gives the idea how the politicians, criminals, and organizations are interlinked.


Too many Characters, . .

I am not showing there were lots of characters, but there were enough to make me confuse, I kind of lost the motivation of some characters,
Best of all, none of the characters was clear, they all have hidden aims, and they all were playing their own games,
Still, they all were telling each other everything, InHours, we get to see characters from many parts of the globe and they all are in the hotel,

Abusive relationships

The book provides a look into abusive relationships, and how tough it is to escape them.

Aratrikas relations with her father were bad to the point of physical violence, but then she turns out to be like her father.
She has feelings for that man, It may be the symptoms of Stockholm syndrome,
Even in the end, the father lives with the father, that the bully all his life, His mother asks for it, and yes there is a reason, but it looks to me that prisoner like the prison,

Commerce and Economics

There are commerce and business related terminology going on, and I think the field related person can enjoy it a lot more.
It was not tough to read, but there is something to not get the jokes and foreshadowing from the jargon,
Up to the end, I was not certain who is on whom side, and how many sides there are actually,
I will recommendhours by Upendra Namburi if you looking to read a businessrelated thriller, a story that happens indoor, and rich in dialogues.


The book has sent to me by Westland in exchange for honest review,

sitelinkDon't forget to check out my blogHours is the story ofHours time span of Aratrika Reddy s battle, battle to save her empire in one night.
The story revolves around Aratrika Reddy, the CEO of a multi billion business empire and her tryst to save it from the clutches of powerhungry, greedy, profitoriented business tycoons, and overcome her fears that has been her shadow since childhood.
all of it in justhours, The story explores the everchanging dynamics of relationship in personal and professional lives, It puts the protagonist in situations when she doesnt know who is trustworthy, who is against her, The story which is about a night, though the pace is normal, it is not boring,

Aratrika is not only fighting the battle with demons who are external but also she s fighting a battle with self anxiety, fear, weakness, her blood relations.
Her life was never being easy on her, difficult childhood, her brothers dead, estranged husband, With all this The Rathores The Reddy's Rivalry is not helping, How much dirtier can it get and can she survive all She being a tough women fights to win back her company,

Who all are with her and who is against her, will she ever be able to know

Is it only she s fighting a battle to win back her company or their is more to it

What does Jagannath Rao holds against Madhusudhan Reddy

Will Aratrika ever be able to save her empire

The Author has narrated the story on time span, it shows the importance of time, and even explained the past and related characters v well.
And suspense is set till end with all the necessary twist and turns, To know answer of all this readHours,
What I loved in this book

Theme: Time based importance and proper usage of time

Quotes:

" I cant be honest with myself.
Maybe I can be so with you"

Story: I love the suspense till the end, twists and turns,

Characters: Abhimanyu the true support and a great friend, Raghav s dedication.
What I did not like

I felt it bit too dragged in between,

Verdict: For me to connect, it took some chapters and i loved the climax with so many suspense, What I learn is," If you want to achieve something with good intentions and try hard you will win it" and "importance of time".
Recommend to thriller lovers and corporate politics lovers,
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Upendra NamburisHours is a fastpaced thriller with high voltage episodes unfurling within a span ofhours.
It revolves around a takeover deal of one of the highly reputed, influential and controversial company ARYA INDUSTRIES that is unfortunately on the verge of bankruptcy.
The CEO, Aratrika Reddy, has onlyHours to make or mar the future of the company that she took over from her father and shaped up on her own.


TheHours of anticipation is filled with negotiations, betrayals, flashbacks, memories, hypocrisy, strategies and selfish motives, The deals and revised interests seem nothing short of a gripping game of chess, More the players, more the personal rivalries come into play, Aratrikas father, Madhusudhan Reddy while establishing ARYA had made enough enemies in the field who were passed on to Aratrika when she took over.
All these industrial magnets, as well as her own estranged relations with her exlover and husband, leave no stones unturned in trying to acquire the company.
It is not so much for the share value of the company as it is for emotionally crushing the patriarch and Aratrika that their rivals throw enviable deals for the takeover.


Further, in just a matter ofHours, some of the bestkept secrets of the industry are revealed, Whether it be money laundering from within the company or forgery audits by the owners of the company itself, Aratrika is portrayed as the true iron woman of the times, whose focus is only on saving the company whether it is from the rivals or the powerhungry sharks within the internal ranks.


Namburi beautifully portrays the dark internal side of a company where money and power are the driving forces of work and activities.
It is often said that there is no place for emotions in business, and Aratrika and the other industrial magnets in this novel surely glorifies the saying.
Whether it be her own father, brother or uncle, she spares none when it comes to saving her dream, Even her husband who has been previously accused of infidelity and her exlovers are in the circuit to defeat her, It is indeed interesting to see how Aratrika fights all odds and most importantly against her own family apart from the rivals to decide the future of the ARYA INDUSTRIES which she has so meticulously reigned over for years.
hours is a story of Aratrika Reddy who is left with justhours to save her company from some bankruptcy, She is''' with dusky complexion but she is the Managing Director and Vice chairman of ARYA holdings Ltd,   Her father Madhusudhan Reddy is the owner of multi billion business empire,
The pace of the story is very normal, you need few pages to get into it, Aratrika had a bad childhood, bad marriage and she also has anxiety issues, She is in a constant battle with trust but she has to save ARYA anyhow from the enemies of ARYA,
We spendhours sleeping whereas she is struggling strongly and alone in thosehours to save her company,am toam are the difficulthours mentioned in this story, After you get into the story than you keep on wondering what next, so according to me if a story has that impact on a reader than its worth reading.
I liked the concept of how every chapter is names to increase the curiosity of the reader,
The protagonist Aratrika is a strong lady who survives in this difficult phase of time,
Will she be able to save her company
Does she win the battle inhours
" TIME IS IMPORTANT GUYS DON'T TAKE IT LIGHTLY"
I gave it a.
Hours by Upendra Namburi is a timebased corporate thriller, As the title of the book suggests the book tells us about the events that happen within a period of eight hours, The title and the blurb of the book create an atmosphere of excitement in your mind if you love reading timebased thriller, The cover is also awesome, However, sadly, those are the only things that are exciting in this book, While the author has worked hard and tried his best to make this book as interesting as possible, you will not be able to enjoy the book until you have a clear understanding of the technicalities related to the corporate world.
I am not saying that the book is a tough read, You will be able to follow the events described in the book, However, you will not be able to appreciate this reading journey unless you understand the mechanics of the business world,

The book revolves around a huge deal related to an organisation called ARYA, This organisation is on the verge of bankruptcy and Aratrika, the charismatic executive director of this organisation and the central lead of this novel, is trying her best to save her company.
However, it is not an easy job and she has only a few hours to save her company from bankruptcy, A number of people, including her husband and uncle, are plotting a hostile takeover, Peter, her old love, is also pulling the strings, Over a period of eight hours, Aratrika has to not only save her company but also fight the past demons of her life, This is a fight that Aratrika does not want to lose, Will she be successful Read the book to know about that,

The book has a good number of characters, While some of these characters have been given enough space, some were not so lucky, These unlucky ones also deserved more space, I think, Overall, all of these characters are interesting and play a vital role in moving the story ahead, The character that impressed me most was of Aratrika and I really liked the way she has been portrayed in the book, Her inner conflicts have come out beautifully in the book, The pace of the plot is slow except in the lastpages where it moves really fast, The language is lucid and the book is rich in dialogues, and, in fact, some of the dialogues have been written really well,

I have no problem with corporate thrillers, However, the author needs to make sure that the book is thrilling in the real sense, No corporate thriller will survive if the author fails to inject the element of thrill in the novel, Readers do not want to read pages upon pages of economic statistics and financial charts, They simply want to enjoy a wellwritten thrilling story, On top of that, the author needs to write in such a way that the readers have a clear understanding of the world the author is taking them into.
The book under review could have been a brilliantly written corporate thriller if the author would have taken these things into account, While the people who have a good understanding of the corporate world might enjoy this book, the other readers may find it mindnumbing,

I will recommend this book to only those people who know the technical knowhow of the corporate world and love to read thrillers based on these subjects.


Notes:
. I received a free copy of this book from Writersmelon in exchange of an honest review,
. The review was originally published on my blog:
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The book was a great surprise, an extremely quick read and a page turner in true sense, It can be a great weekend escapade, There was but something off beat, The story started and finished, There was no spark. But all in all a good read, I can recommend it to those who are into suspense and thriller novels,

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Disclaimer: The views presented are only my own perspective of the book and should not discourage anyone from reading it, You may prefer apples, I may like oranges, Doesn't say much about the fruits, only about our choices,

Hours is officially my most difficult read ofyet, I could not, for the life of me, get through this book, Every chapter seemed repetitive, every hour felt like a lifetime, In fact, even though I was buddyreading this with two of my other bookstagrammer buddies, none of us could motivate the other, Much contrary to that, I think we all just pulled each other down, This book, no matter how much I tried, just did not work for me,

The story explores the fate of a familyowned company, Arya, on the verge of its demise and the protagonist, a shareholder in the company and the daughter of the founder, Aratrika, is on a mission to save it anyhow.
The book is titledHours, which is reflective of the lasthours of the company fromam to,am, to be precise before the said empire crumbles in its own mess, but it took me more than that to get through the book.
While the first few chapters of the book are intriguing and did excite me initially, the boredom that overtook me subsequently enveloped me like nothing I have ever experienced.


I am not going over the storyline, You can read the same in the blurb,
I will just quickly go over what did not work for me,

. Too many characters It was, after a while, difficult to keep a tab on who was doing what, and related to which other character and how, and what they were up to and why.
You get it The entire book was as big a struggle as this sentence, I initially thought that once I got a hang of the characters and their relations, things would be easier and maybe interesting, No such thing happened.

. Repetitive If I had a penny for every call that each character made and

received, I may be able to buy back my weekend that I spent on this book! Every chapter sounded the same, every 'plan' and 'trick' was same as the previous one and the plot just REFUSED to move forward.
In short, nothing, absolutely nothing happened for the entire duration ofhours, To be honest, I was only able to read till pageI mostly did not could not pay attention after that,

. The end was good only because it was the end, I had to suffer no more, I would've apologised for being so harsh but I need to vent right now,

Did not work for me, may or may not work for you,
The plus point is that the writing is decent and lucid, One of the very few error free books I have read in a while, .