Review: Nav and the Ninth Universe.

• Book: Nav and the Ninth Universe - a clock of time.
• Author: Sunny Shandilya.
• Publication House: Notion Press
• Category: Fiction.
• Rating: ****

A week ago, a friend of mine Udita Pal recommended me to Shailesh Kumar Jha who writes under a pen name Sunny Shandilya. Minutes later, I had a word with the author and the delivery deal of the book was finalized. Nav and the Ninth Universe is Sunny’s first maiden novel. This enthralling story took roots on a night in March 2011. 

Nav and the Ninth Universe – a clock of time, is a story of a boy ‘Nav’ who loses his father at a young age. This boy strongly believes that there are universe’ similar to ours. His assumptions later turns into reality when he comes to know that his father (who died 10 years ago) is alive in a parallel universe. 

• In my view:

The book begins with an adage ‘Morning shows the day’ after which the author has portrayed how life became full of struggles for Nav. Nav often get’s some eccentric dreams. His mother rejects his concepts by saying that they were a result of over-stressing. Nav finds some tattoos on his hands and questions his mother about them. His mother, after observing the tattoos tells him that it was his father’s wish and that the number nine inscribed in the tattoo highlights his birth date i.e 9^th January. 

• Author Sunny Shandilya.

Nav, who takes-up Astro-physics with an intention to build a time-machine in future in order to reach up to his father. His monotonous life becomes topsy-turvy when one fine day he gets to know that a lady who was living with his for all this while was not his mother and this his parents were in another universe. The story then unfolds. 

The cover of the book is also attractive but the only thing that falls the impression of the book is its font.

The book generally has a very interesting story and author Sunny Shandilya has executed it in a very fascinating manner. The story can be turned into a film as it introduces a reader with a good content.

The vocabulary used by the author is too good. Several idioms and phrases have enhanced the writing. 

Nav and the Ninth Universe is a book which teenagers will like more as they are widely interested in knowing such facts. It is a must-read novel. Readers should purchase it and give this new content a try! :)