Book Review 71: Emperor Vikramaditya by Adity Kay.




Adity Kay's recent historical fiction, Emperor Vikramaditya, is a sequel to her previous book, Emperor Chandragupta. After reading Emperor Chandragupta, I couldn't wait to read the author's second book which just released last month!

As the title of the book suggests, this book tells the tale of the legendary emperor of ancient India, Chandragupta II, or Vikramaditya. The younger son of the Gupta king Samudragupta, the young prince Chandra is troubled within himself as his elder brother Ramagupta prepares to take their ageing father's place on the throne, he wrestles constantly with his brother's decisions. He finds his brother's decisions to be dangerous to the stability of the empire. And thus, begins the conflict, and struggle for power between two brothers. But when the empire is threatened by a dangerous enemy from outside, Chandra emerges as the king in his own right.
Read the book to know whether an unwanted prince can save a kingdom on the brink of ruin.

The book beautifully portrays the important historical characters. It is absolutely beautiful. The language is lucid and easy. And the narration goes on at a perfect pace. Also, I loved the detailed descriptive portions.
Altogether, it was quite an interesting read for me.
Historical fiction fans, you can always go for this book!


About the author: Adity Kay has nurtured a secret love for history all through her years of working as an editor in a magazine, a human resources professional and a management consultant. She has lived in various places in India and has been as much of a border-crosser in her career as a writer, writing editorials, essays, stories for children and books for older readers across genres. Her eclectic reading in history across non-fiction and fiction and have led to her fascination with the varied possibilities of times past and has also served as an impetus to travel to long-ago worlds, if only through fiction.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars.
Publisher: Hachette India.
First Published: July 2019
Pages: 356
Price: ₹399/-

Buy this book from Amazon.

Thanks to the publisher, Hachette India, for the review copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. 

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