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The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer: A Bombay Story (YA Thriller) (English, Paperback, Laxmi Hariharan)

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Author

Laxmi Hariharan

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Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Read Out Loud Publishing
ISBN: 9788192144818, 819214481X
Edition: 1, 2014
Pages: 302

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*An angry young girl, desperate to rescue her best friend.A sexy cop willing to do anything to save the city he serves.A delusional doctor bent on annihilation.* When Ruby Iyer's best friend is kidnapped by the despotic Dr Kamini Braganza, she will do anything to rescue him. Anything, including taking the help of the mysterious Vikram Roy, a cop-turned-rogue on a mission to save Bombay. The city needs all the help it can get, and these two are the only thing standing between its total destruction by Dr Braganza's teen army. As Bombay falls apart around them, will Ruby be able to save her friend and the city? Will she finally discover her place in a city where she has never managed to fit in? And what about her growing feelings for Vikram?

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Book Details

Publication Year

2014

Dimensions

Width	5.5 inch
Height	8.5 inch
Depth	0.6 inch
Weight	320 g

Ratings & Reviews

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The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer is an action movie in words

he Many Lives of Ruby Iyer is an action movie in words. The day Bollywood decides to make a Super ‘Heroine’ movie in the back drop of a collapsing Mumbai, Ruby Iyer shall be the place to start.

However unlike a movie, in the book you get to feel Ruby’s rage, smell the scents of Mumbai, listen to the cities cacophony and live the nightmare she is living. Ruby can look good, she can fight and she is angry. In the dystopian world imagined by Laxmi Hariharan, both the central characters are wo...

J KT

Jan, 2015

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Ruby is an awesome Feeling and a Thought to be Nurtured !

I have known the author Laxmi for almost two decades as a "sensitive thinker" and a person with "very strong reasoning powers" who is also blessed with a "super imaginative" mind. As i read her second creation "Many Lives of Ruby Iyer" I was left amazed at the way she transports you into the dystopian fictional world, where many sensitive underlying subjects seamlessly merge to create a thriller of a story, with a city under threat. This book is definitely for those who passionately believ...

Sanjay Bajaj

Jan, 2015

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Scary realism for a dystopian novel

I have lived in Mumbai all my life and I am someone who is used to everything that this city has to throw at me. By this, I mean that I fail to really see the city and everything that is wrong with it. I am immune to the pain and the poverty, the recklessness and the “my d*ck is bigger than yours” attitude of the rich, the ineptitude of the politicians and the police. I am happy to travel in my air-conditioned car to work and back, making a living which can buy me the comforts of life.

So I ...

Ritesh Kala

Jan, 2015

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Liked it!

The many lives of Ruby Iyer is a Young Adult thriller about a headstrong teenager desperate to rescue her friend thus uncovering the plot behind a falling city. She gets groped, pushed to death, transformed, manipulated and drawn into circumstances. Through the first few chapers, the more she wanted to stay strong just for the heck of it and the more she tried to suppress her physical and emotional weariness, there was one thing I wanted to do. Give her a tight slap! Annoyingly, she is the pr...

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