5/21/2023 1:30:00 PM

Novel Critique-"Bring me to Life" by Madhu Guruprasad

Hosted by: Jen

Details

Join our novel review of "Bring Me to Life", a Horror Fantasy novel with Gothic elements set in a small town in India. It's about 86K words. Here's the blurb: Mara, a 28-year-old cardiac surgeon in San Francisco, has never taken a single day off until the death of her parents in a car accident. Her grief unlocks a strange power in her— one that forces her to experience the deaths of her patients intimately, repeatedly. She returns to her birthplace, her parents’ house in India— Ayushya House, a dilapidated, old farmhouse— to grieve and reconnect with her childhood memories. She is accompanied by her best friend, Amar. He is haunted by the presence of someone in his subconscious, always at the edge of his thoughts, at the tip of his tongue, a memory leaking from a previous birth that he could never quite grasp. This trip to India with Mara was the perfect opportunity for him to clear his head, attend a cousin’s wedding and avoid a nasty breakup. But Ayushya House has plans of its own, amplifying their hauntings and visions when they are stuck in the house during a deadly monsoon storm. It lures them in with promises of love and redemption, hollowing out their humanity to become the perfect keys to unlock the secrets of birth, death, and rebirth. Can they survive the cosmic forces against them and protect each other without ripping apart the universe? To familiarize yourself with our typical critique style, please read our Rules of Engagement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKp0hisz-RSZgE1xF65DzUhOwRQZ6JqwAJ5fbAwrCwU/edit?usp=sharing

Authors

Author
Manuscript
Approved?
Madhu Guruprasad
BringMeToLife-Guruprasad-Submission-full.docx
Approved

Attendees

A J Harper
Aldrian Estepa
Ellen McBarnette
Ina Holm Johansen
Jen
Jennifer
Jonathan D. Leavitt
Madhu Guruprasad
Thomas White

Manuscript Due Date

3/26/2023 12:30:00 PM

Documents

Authors will be sent reminder document:10 at 3/25/2023 8:30:00 PM
Attendees will be sent welcome document:11 at 3/26/2023 6:00:00 PM