Saira Zariwala Is Afraid
THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
MY THOUGHTS
Make sure you have your comforter around for this one, you will need it!
If you have a teenager, you will understand the incessant pestering for a mobile phone. It’s as if their world will collapse without a phone. Saira Zariwala is a typical teenager who needs a phone and pesters her parents for one. When she finally gets one, she is thrilled but is definitely not prepared for what happens next. She begins getting messages and calls for someone named Akash. When the calls and texts become frequent and strange, she realises Akash has disappeared without informing friends and family. Saira decides to play detective, but a recent murder in the city is connected to Akash; a mutilated Bad Doll turns up; and she gets personal messages from someone who knows she is meddling and isn’t too happy about it. What’s worse, the Listener knows where she lives and threatens her family and friends! Will Saira be able to find Akash before it is too late, or will her curiosity become too dangerous for her? Read this book to find out!
Shabnam Minwalla delivers another smash-hit YA novel that is intriguing, scary, and funny. Packed with characters and plot twists, this is one of those books that demands your complete attention and forces you to drop everything to sit down and binge-read. You come away from the experience absolutely satisfied and a whole lot scared! The scariest part of this story is that it is so real and relatable. It could happen to any of us! The characters are people you know and stalk on social media, and that adds to the spook factor!
In this episode of Tell Me A Story, Minwalla talks about how she relies on her in-house critics to determine if her book is scary and if the plot will pass muster, and how being a mom has hugely influenced her writing. She also lets me in on her love affair with Mumbai and why the city always makes an appearance in her books.
Perfect for teens and for those looking for a book that they simply can’t stop reading. Intelligent, scary, and so hip — this book is a must-read.
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