The Price of a Promise Paid in Blood’
The deadly Halahala, the all-devouring poison churned from the depths of the White Lake by the devas and asuras, was swallowed by Shiva to save the universe from extinction.
But was the Halahala truly destroyed?
A small portion still remains – a weapon powerful enough to guarantee victory to whoever possesses it. And both asuras and devas, locked in battle for supremacy, will stop at nothing to claim it.
As the forces of Devaloka and Patala, led by Indra and Shukracharya, plot to possess the Halahala, Shiva turns to mankind to guard it from their murderous clutches. It is now up to Samrat Vikramaditya and his Council of Nine to quell the supernatural hordes – and prevent the universe from tumbling into chaos!
A sweeping tale of honour and courage in the face of infinite danger, greed and deceit, Vikramaditya Veergatha is a fantastical journey into a time of myth and legend.
The four books in the series are The guardians of the Halala, The Conspiracy at Meru. The Vengeance of Indra and The wrath of the Hellfires.
My review:
I first met Shatrujeet Nath a few years ago, when he had just written two of the books in this saga. The passion with which he spoke about the story, intrigued me but as he said that at least another book was in the making to complete the series, I decided to wait for the whole series to be out. Instead of a trilogy, it turned out to be a set of four books.
So finally when the fourth book was published, I gifted myself the set.
Believe me, the wait was worth it. I just could not put the books down. I read greedily, wanting to know what happened next. I finished one book and started the next without a break.
As Shatrujeet Nath says, there were two ideas in his head, the Halala and Vikramaditya. These two fused and this story was born. It is totally fiction and fantasy.
The pace was fast, the plot riveting and I finished the four books in four days flat. The whole saga is one which gets you so engrossed that when you finish you realise with a start that you are not in a world that existed hundreds of years ago, but actually in the present. You return with a present with a sigh, wanting to go back to a what has been your world for the last few days.
The characters remained with me long after I finished the books and I saw myself revisiting scenes from the story in my mind.
This is definitely a story that needs to be made into a teleseries if not a film.
I totally agree. I could not bear the wait for the next book to be released as I read each book as it came out.