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Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz
3.0

This book helped me understand how a publishing house really works inside. (FYI: I don't think every publishing house works that way but mostly the startups) TBH, I would never want to work in a publishing company like the one in this book. Not at all. Not even for billion dollars. The author has made it look so bad that all they ever focused on was the money they are going to get from selling biographies of the already famous actors or by selling eroticas and soppy romances and not bothering to even read the manuscripts of good books. But I guess that's what the author has intended to bring forward from this story.

It's a comical satire which has a protagonist name Akshay Saxena who comes from London to India after losing his job to join in a publishing house which is already losing its name. And this book is all about his journey in this company. Above everything, I loved his mind voices which the author has managed to pull off along with his dialogues. They were very funny because he was cynical, witty and was always at the edge of losing his temper.

Now the things I didn't like about the book was writing and objectification of women. I don't know how many of the readers noticed that but it really bothered me. Knowingly or unknowingly, every female character in this book is plainly whiny, sexual, hot or good for nothing. Like, come on, there is more to female characters than just that. Honestly, that was really irritating and don't even start me on that.

Other than that it's an easy read which you can definitely opt for light reading.