Name: The Oath of the Vayuputras
ISBN: 9781780874104

Amish Tripathi

Shiva has accepted his destiny, but it has brought him to despair. Can he heal himself and the people who look to him as a god? Today, Shiva is a god. But four thousand years ago, he was just a man - until he brought his people to Meluha, a near-perfect empire founded by the great king Lord Ram. There he realised he was the Neelkanth, a barbarian long prophesied to be Meluha's saviour. But in his hour of victory fighting the Chandravanshis - Meluha's enemy - he discovered they had their own prophecy. Now he must fight to uncover the treachery within his inner circle, and unmask those who are about to destroy all that he has fought for. Shiva is about to learn that good and evil are two sides of the same coin . . .

The Shiva Trilogy

The Oath of the Vayuputras

book 3 of the Shiva trilogy

Anoop

** spoiler alert **
           Can't say I'm disappointed, but I'm.
Throughout the book, the author emphasizes on following the right path to achieve your goal, reminding that anger is the true enemy of Shiva.
But the last few chapters makes no effort at all to keep it intact.
Shiva uses Pashupati Astra which has been banned by the previous Mahadev, to avenge Sati's death and what follows is a weak attempt from the author to leave no loose ends. That is where I feel the story lost it's plot.

Ending was such a let down didn't do the justice to the series 

Sanat Gersappa

Loved it. Read the whole book in a day. Racy. As they say in Hindi, पैसा वसूल.

Amit Gawande

Such a letdown by the finale. Last third of the book completely ruined the build-up — which itself wasn't too great. But this could have been so much better if the author did not fall for the pressure to jack up the number of pages — the effort, to stretch the story unnecessarily, clearly shows. 

It's all about the impending war. Amish can write battles well. But he struggled to put the battles together into an interesting story. Towards the end it was just a drag. There was no thrill, there was no surprise, there was no story remaining. It was just an attempt to conclude the trilogy, a miserable attempt at best. 

There are too many characters, each seeking a closure of his own - leading to too many unnecessary side stories. Further surprising is no character behaves the way you expect them to behave. Parvateshwar doesn't. Ganesh doesn't. Even Shiva doesn't - the biggest issue.

Sigh. It is not easy to close mystery trilogies. And the frustration at not being clear on how to do so, for Shiva, shows from the plot that unravels — left me fuming.

A side note on the overall series, I am completely baffled by how the tile & summary of the novels set complete different expectations than what the actual plot delivers. It applies for all 3 — realised first with "The Secret of Nagas". Every word in summary is to hype up the mystery. Titles are completely baseless. Not the right precedent this.

The Oath of the Vayuputras The Shiva Trilogy

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