Hilawi  (English, Paperback, Lalit Ritu)

For a writer whose first book was a coming-of-age tale for young adults, taking on a completely different genre was a very bold move, but Ritu Lalit has always had tremendous gumption! With Hilawi, she enters the world of fantasy, spinning a story that is breathtaking in its pace and arresting in its imagination. This is a book that could have gone horribly wrong, teeming as it is with intricate plot twists and the temptation to go over the top in terms of fantastic imagery, but surprisingly,...

This novel compels you to read it until you finsih it.An awesome breath-taking journey which has unending turns and twists and trust me the last page also is no different.Ritu Lalit has created such an awesome piece of fiction.
The story is about ‘Hilawi’ a mystique weapon which should be better called as shield.It has an old Hindu mythological fable associated with its origin and is assumed to give power,luck and protection to its partner,but also having it is a curse as there are many fam...

First, it is very diffcult for a racounteur to script a fantasia, in just 164 pages. Writers like Rowling, Tolkiens, C.S. Lewis went onto creating Trilogies and heptalogies, but the brevity with which Ms Lalit has narrated this story is commendable in its own exquisite form. In the time of popular campus stories that just bore you to death, "Hilawi" literally stands up to prove its etymological roots, given to the fact that the word was coined by the author herself and it does stir you with i...