River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

This is the second book of Ibis trilogy and after finishing this I crave for more. I'm eagerly waiting for the third book, Flood of Fire, which may be released in 2015.

The story moves forward from the Ibis to the city of Canton. The same characters are moved to canton and story revolves around the opium trade in China which later became the first opium war.

The characters are as strong as in the first book and there was not a single instance when a sequence seemed extra. There were some new characters added out of which I remebered Seth Behram Modi as he seems so natural to me that he looks like a person I know very well.

Another thing was there was a lot of plants and botany included and it actually added to the flow of the whole narrative, I'm feeling like start tending a small garden for myself :)

-Puneet

The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi

This is the third book of the trilogy. I read it after a long time since it was released and I must say that I am disappointed.

The final part talks about how Parvati died and Shiva moved to destroy the whole city with  Pashupathiastra.

The more I got into the book more I realized that the narration was getting shallow and it looked like the end was written for the sake of the formality that the book is complete.

I don't want to sound harsh but after reading the first book I had lot of expectations with the whole series which got lower and lower after the second and third book. This could have been a great series but sadly it is not.

If you're a lover of fantasy and read the previous parts than go for it otherwise it is not something that will be missed.