- Book: The Devil's Gate: An Impossible Journey.
- Author: Deepak Kripal
- Publication House: Leadstart.
- Category: Fiction/ Horror
- Rating: 4.5/5.
Story-in-Short:
Plundered by humans of their habitats, animals take a
drastic step when they decided to send a team of a cat named as Katy and a dog
named as Dug, to an invisible island known, as the Island of ‘Five Hundred
Graves’. The island becomes visible only for a short time on the night of the
full moon.
Legend has it that the island is inhabited by the demons.
Katy and Dug are supposed to negotiate a deal with the demons, convincing them
to allow the animals inhabit the island. Majority of the animal community believe
that tinkering with the other world could bring their wrath to the animals. The
team is sent to the island nevertheless.
But can a deal with the dead by materialize?
Are there really demons on the island? Is there any
conspiracy involved?
Will Katy and Dug be able to negotiate, or will survival
remain their only question in the deadly island?
In My View:
Here’s my review on The Devil’s Gate: An Impossible Journey.
The cover page of the book speaks it up, informing the readers about the genre
of the book. The book introduces two important characters, Dug and Caty, in the
beginning. Guess what? They are not humans; they are animals. Yes, talking
animals. There is an organization called UA (United Animals) who send Dug and
Caty for a secret mission. The organization itself arranges everything out
there for both of them to travel to an island which becomes visible only for 10
minutes, that too on a full moon night. Coming across several difficulties,
they reach their destination – The Island of Five Hundred Graves. Once they
step into the island they meet Billy an owl and then begin their journey to
negotiate the demons on the island– the task for which they’ve been sent.
This is a very unique novel with a story that you must have
never read. I think it is a very good medium to highlight the cruelty of humans
towards animals. The characters in the book are personified which give a
fascinating effect to the story. The concept of the book too is really, really
different from all the other novels of the genre. The journey on this island
brings you across image who guides them, child demon, monsters, mosquito
monsters, etc. The book takes you through an explicit and an incredible
journey, a journey that you will love to go through.
Over-all: The
title of the book is good. The narration of the story, plots and the names of
the characters are perfect and interesting. Editorially the book is strong. Drawbacks: The cover of the book is not
that interesting as the story is. The cover could have been a bit better. A few
dialogues in the story are slightly boring. Apart from these, no other drawbacks
in the book, no grammatical or spelling error and the book proceeds perfectly
fine, entertaining and thrilling a reader till the end.
Categorizing it as a must-read novel, I would like to rate The Devil’s Gate: An Impossible Journey with
4.5/5. Good lucks to Deepak and hope he comes up with more such interesting
books!
Note: A review copy of the book was provided by the author himself.
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