The Secret of The Nagas (Shiva Trilogy Book 2)

Just finished the Shiva trilogy great work by Amish Tripathi.

Deserves to be called the best book of all time in fiction category ! Heartful Thanks to the author. It's not just the plot even the way we see life can be learnt from this.

Amish's 'The Immortals of Meluha' takes you back around 4000 years and you begin imagining the Hindu mythology' s gods with Amish's eyes.Secret of nagas is an amazing book. Shiva come from an ordinary human.Fantastic novels just takes back to era of lord Shiva , no doubt his presentation makes one to believe mahadev.

The story of the book is very interesting.

Lucid Writing which takes you to The Imaginative ERA.

Review from a person who hates reading, but when ordered only 1st part immortal of meluha, cancelled and ordered trilogy, and completed whole trilogy in 2 weeks, who literally took months to finish 300 pages book. So much dedication, amusement, eger to read more to know what happens next, lost in characters and so on...... This is what author makes you when you starts reading this masterpiece..... Truly amazing, but unhappy with ending, the author created😭

I bought this book from a local seller and after letting this book lounge on my shelf for about 2-3 years post reading Melhua( first part), I decided to give it a try. Well, to my utter disappointment, this story is unlike the first part. The first part was perfect! The mythological elements spun into an intricate, sophisticated yet magical narrative has left its mark upon my mind till now. Reading this book felt nowhere near to the spell it had cast on me when I had read the first part.Firstly, this book at times feels childish. Yes childish, because of the dialogues of the characters. Because you know, the Gods and Goddesses are portrayed as humans, it is obvious that they would have some sort of human like qualities but that doesn't mean you would make them say lines like," who the hell is that!" or " what the hell". I mean these lines look cool on modern age story novels/ teen novels. You won't expect a God to speak like that. And secondly, if you want to show some sort of familiarisation with the human nature, the author could have easily portrayed that through human like qualities- like pain, sadness etc( which he has) but adding these kind of lines, words doesn't make the book more grand, it rather appears childish. One example of a book I really loved is Song of Achilles( Madeline Miller)[ this book is LGBT type]. Do read that, how she has beautifully crafted the story, lines, and despite there are gods as human characters, the grandeur associated with the Gods, Demi gods is not lost, would you still feel like you've been elevated to the world of gods while you read the book. Do read it I highly recommend it.Other than the factors I mentioned, the way story is woven, you do feel grand, magical at some places, as a whole, this is interesting, it will keep you hooked till the end. The character development of Naga seemes more grand and interesting than other characters. But in the end, this character development is balanced out as every character's appearance is crucial for the novel, this is justified. This book does have some meaningful life lessons which are totally unexpected. Overall it is a good story worthy for one time read.

Best I have ever read. There are lots of things that can be added here. I mean you can for this trilogy without even thinking for a second. My friend gifted me 2 books of this trilogy and at that time I didn’t think of reading and purchasing the third one. I started reading first book after my exams and ohh my god, just after the first book I ordered the third coz I didn’t have the patience. This is fiction which feels real. I bet you can imagine everything and that’s the best past. And if you’re Shiva bhakt this is everything for you.

I have watched Mahabharata but this was totally confusing. Only other example I can think of is Gardens of the Moon, from Malazan Book of the Fallen, some readers find that very confusing, they say they are dropped in middle of action, rightattge deep end of the story and they have to learn how to swim. But that ztiryu folds very beautifully, this one doesn't.I went back to Amazon page a number of times to make sure that this was the first book in trilogy, it is and being the Kindle version, it must be true but I couldn't be certain, even after reading ten percent of the story, there is no explanation as to who Shiva is or how he got his great fighting skills, even basics like who is parents are or his wife ( she was part of the action , then she vanished as we move on). Names and places are very confusing to read and they come thick and fast and one really finds it hard to make sense of it all.Another disturbing fact is how the temple at Ayodhya is mentioned again and again and a king even donates huge tribute towards its construction. It doesn't really concerned me one way or the other but this is totally wrong, to treat such an inflammatory issue in such a careless way was telling, I was reading the story so I could learn more about Hinduism but I kept feeling like I was looking in through a frosty window, I felt like it not written for new comers, the author was preaching to the converted. I decided to give up as after 10 percent and that is very annoying, I still don't know anything new about Shiva, the mortal man or the Hindu god or avatar etc or who his enemies are or what both sides were doing.I had to stop, don't feel like going back, I have already bought the book twice and returned it as it didn't make much sense of it at all.Some needs to write a prequel to the story, because the story didn't make much sense but there were some decent action scenes but obviously Shiva wins, every time.

It is a very novel and interesting perspective towards Hindu mythology. The Author's take on the concepts and characters is different from whatever I had heard before; but in a nice way. That said, I should also mention that the narration is a bit colloquial. The author has accepted that his English was 'pedestrian' and the editor helped him out. I must say the editor did not do a brilliant job. Also, the author's understanding of animal behaviour is limited, I suppose. Perhaps he should watch more of the Discovery and the National Geographic channels :) Not that it affects the story in any way, but to an animal lover like me, it just spoils the flavour. Apart from that, I really enjoyed both the books of the trilogy and am waiting for the third one. Happy reading.

This is the fastest I have ever finished a book. Its a great cocktail of fact and fiction taking you back 1000's of years in time at the same time also reflecting some of the practices only prevalent in todays modern societies. The unexpected turn of events and the never ending mysteries kept me gripped in awe till the end. It definitely gives you a good hint about Lord Shiva and the powers he commanded. I am so looking forward to the 3rd book.

A good book spoiled a bit by unnecessary characters who do nothing for the plot. Also there's A LOT of unnecessary engineering detail that the reader can do without, like we don't need to know how to build a ship! Overall though the book is a good read, a few twists and surprises to keep us interested.

Following the 1st book in the trilogy this one felt it was not as polished as it should have been and was filled with more additional elements to try and provide content which didn't add to much to the story.Overall still good progression