Happened to read this genre of book after a real long time, cuz I guess I needed a break and wanted to read something really light and that which will not require much concentration from me. Incidentally I picked up the right sorts. Dark side is just the kind of book, which you can skim through without really making an effort to read it and yet you will get the entire story.
The book starts of introducing a famous author who is not as famous for writings under his name but is more famous for his thriller books under a pseudonym. However since the secret of his pseudonym has leaked so he himself declares the same and kinda kills his alter ego. From here on the books proceeds creating a sense of mystery about it – gruesome murders happening right and left (the gruesomeness is quite elaborate, more than I cared for). All the clues point to this author, but with perfect alibis its just impossible for the author to be the murderer. So very predictably, its the authors twin. But wait a minute, he has no twin, infact any signs of twin were removed from his brain while he was a small child. So its his alter ego, that somehow has come to life. And now only one shall live while the other perishes. So the tussle continues and towards the end, the evil alter is killed and carried away to the other world by a whole load of sparrows.
Doesn't makes sense? Nevermind, that is how its meant to be. Paranormal is meant to be a part of this story, else there was no other explanation for the course of the event, murders to be specific.
Overall, its not a griping fiction, kinda gets boring and predictable. And the not so captivating, paranormal ending doesn't do much to save the day! However it did occur to me that it would make a good horror movie and guess what, there is a movie based on this novel :-)
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