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right now today's video is just a book
review a very simple book review about a
book that a lot of Indians are excited
about because it's the prequel to
bahubali it's bahubali before the
beginning and a lot of you guys actually
asked me to review this book and here it
is the rise of sivagami by anand
neelakantan now who is anand neelakantan what is
bahubali what is S. S.  Rajamouli that
is what I am going to cover before I
dive into the review of this book first
of all anand neelakandan is a very popular
mythological fiction writer to be honest guys
i have read his Ajaya series & I absolutely loved
it I have recommended it to a lot of you
and you know he writes in a very
beautiful and very you know like that
manner that will make you enjoy his
books and you'll be like... wow this is how
reading should be like okay so that
would be a beautiful a beautiful
expression this author has and then S. S. rajamouli
is the director of Bahubali
who actually you know created this whole
Bahubali story and Bahubali is a
blockbuster movie and it became the
biggest hit and you know it's so so so
great and the internet the whole world
the whole India I would mean that went
crazy about this movie and now second
part is also coming up very soon but
this book is before bahubali happened
now if you're not familiar with bahubali
I feel like you would still
be able to read this book if you've
not watched bahubali movie you will
still be able to read and enjoy this
book because it's not connected directly
with that there is no mention of bahubali
you know it's just written here but
there is no mention of bahubali in
the book so the book is actually about
this great Kingdom - Mahishmati Kingdom which is considered great and invincible and
there is this little girl call Sivagami
who hates this kingdom and wants to break
it because her father was declared
traitor and killed in a very bad manner
and she doesn't believe him to be a
traitor and she wants to take her
revenge and kill the king of mahishmati
Kingdom herself but this book is not
just about that
it's you know it has a
politics and a lot of things going into
it the subplots also include part of the
katappa who is again very popular but if you don't know about him you'll know about him
in this book who is very very loyal
to his king or whoever is his you know
sort of king or ruler or prince or
whatsoever and there are also people who
think that mahishmati Kingdom is a very
cruel Kingdom and they want to bring its
fall now that is different from what Sivagami wants. And also there are
people who actually believe in this
kingdom but they also know that there
are some very bad things going on the
outskirts of the kingdom and people
are being kidnapped kids are being kidnapped villagers are being burned and they are
trying to stop that so these are all the
mixed plots of this book and that's what
the book is about the plot now the plot
I told you it has a lot of subplots and
to be honest by the end of this book I
was not very happy with the plot it's
not like that I didn't enjoy reading
this book I didn't enjoy the entire plot
but there were a lot of lose ends and I do
agree that it's the book one. In the
second book they may be covered but some of the loose ends were like you know I didn't
really care about them like it took me a
long time to just even think that you
know what that thing is pending and how
come this happened with this thing and
you know it didn't get my interest that
much which I would call a very negative
point because you know what if there are
several subplots going on I should be
dying to get to that subplot and you
know even reading this part where
something else is happening I hope you
are getting my point but you know that
excitement and that want and will to
know what happens next was very slow so
otherwise I really enjoyed the plot and
also one more thing the sivagami
Now this book is Rise of Sivagami and I
would have expected a lot bigger role of
sivagami in this book but it was like
you know sivagami was given a side role
in this book and obviously it's the Rise of Sivagami but the entire book I
could not see this woman rising I could
not see you know her as the powerful
person and as the vengeful person that
much and I thought it was slightly amiss
apart from that I think the plot is
really good I would really urge you to
read it because you know
it's good it's really good there were
some points that I didn't like but I really
feel like the second book is going to be
amazing and usually the series are like
that so I am pretty okay with it plus
the writing style is so amazing once you
start reading it you will just fly
fly fly through the book and that is
what makes me feel really good about it
now there are know you know stretched 
plots stretched scenes or anything the
descriptions are on point the character
descriptions are on point. The emotions
which the author brings through his
words is like epic epic this is a
great historical fiction because of that characters I really love all the
characters apart from sivagami, I felt like all the characters were given a
lot of good attention as well as
you know they had a lot of power in them
not like power power but you know even a small character like what do you call
it. He's gunduram... he's like a very little
funny character who is very you know
powerless and everything but you know
you really like this character you really
find him a great character in the book
sivagami was not like that so that is just like
a little bit I was like okay sivagami yeah!
but rest of it is really really really 
good every single character from the
small guards to the prince to the king
to the Queen
to all those tribal people living out
there... I really loved this book because of
that so my overall ratings to this book
is 3.5 out of 5 stars i  would definitely
like all of you read this book it has
a very beautiful writing a good plot
and you know the characters are really
good and you would really love this
historical fiction and to be honest guys
in India such great books are not that
common so, you do need to get over those... whatever books you're reading and read some
good books like these so yes that's what
I think about the rise of sivagami by
anand neelakantan yes I think I was very
late to review this book and I do think
that a lot of you have already read it
so do let me know what you think about
this book if your views about this book
are same. if you really think that you know
the plot thing did have some issues or
if you just absolutely loved this book
and you wanna hate me for saying this
point just let me know in the comments
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