Review of Skyfire by Aroon Raman

Book: Skyfire
Author: Aroon Raman
Available At: Flipkart

Skyfire is a fictional thriller, which talks about using the weather as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. It is a decent effort from Aroon Raman and written in a lucid style. I got this book as part of the Flipkart Book Review Program.

The most redeeming quality of a thriller ought to be that the real culprit should only be revealed in the final pages of the book. There should be enough deviants and false clues for the reader to keep thinking about the actual culprit, whose identity should only be revealed in the climax of the book.

However, this is where Skyfire actually misses out totally. The identity of the actual culprit can easily be predicted in the early stages of the book quite easily as there is no other actual suspect. Despite this obvious flaw, you may want to keep reading the book just to know how the whole scheme comes to an obvious end.

The writing is easy and breezy. What the book lacks is "Tautness" and a more tighter plot to make it a thriller worth remembering. It is typically a one-time read and maybe that was the aim of this book.

The plot revolves around a journalist, a professor and a corporate head honcho who are all trying to solve the mystery of a missing child along with some unexplainable weather phenomenons, which are wrecking havoc in numerous cities. The bizarre weather technology is explained over and over again, which makes the reader want to skip those portions. But apart from that, the writing is easy though the characters could be better etched out.