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The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi
4.0

This is the book one of the Maha Vishnu Trilogy set some two million years past ad 2050, when earth as we know it ceased to exist and so did mankind. A new race, the Manavas, now exists on the Earth. In the quiet and peaceful city of Madhavpur, Krishna is busy with an immense task. On one side, he has to keep the level of Bhoomidium at check which is eroding, means the earth is soon going to be destroyed and on the other hand, he has to create a new alternate world to escape the destruction.
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This is a mythological- science fiction if that makes sense. We all know who Krishna is but he wasn't appealing to me here as much as he does in his other stories. Like, I felt he was kind of overrated without any base at the beginning. Character development was not so good. I couldn't look through any characters beyond what the author has described and it was too shallow. The language and writing was little stretchy and simple. Also, it started to get little confusing and repetitive in the middle which made my curiosity about the story go down a bit. But it took it's pace again in the last quarter and the things that happened after that was quite satisfying and made me think that I didn't waste my time on this after all. The ending was abrupt since it has a sequel coming. Overall it was good and worth giving a try for the plot.