The Devil's Gate: An Impossible Journey - Deepak Kripal (Book Review)

By Asit Chaurasia -


Blog No: 02


The Devil’s Gate: An Impossible Journey is a novel by the fresh writer Deepak Kripal is published by Frog Books. The cover page of the book is not very attractive but the font given to it is good.
Well coming straight to the story. This is the story of two animal species. Katy (cat) and Dug (dog) meet at Pantheon, a beautiful forest town located on the tropical margins of the equator. The way the author has developed the story is something difficult but written beautifully.
This is the story about animals and how they express their feelings along the journey. The suspense is there from the beginning in each and every chapter. There are few new terms in the book which is very new and interesting. Katy, Billy, and Dug are the main characters in this book. Their conversation in book is described perfectly and you will enjoy the most. This book shows very good message of how to be a leader, how to overcome fear, how and when to control your emotions, team work, intellectual mind and most important thing how to move on when you are facing trouble and danger at every stage. There are some philosophical quotes and talks which has wonderful meaning out of it. It also describe about humans and their behaviour towards animals. All the characters in the book have a journey which is almost impossible but they made it possible to The Devil's gate: An impossible journey.
All over this book is quite interesting and you will enjoy reading this.
Limitations:
I find the story is bit complicated, Some words are difficult to understand as readers hardly use dictionary while reading novels. Starting could have been more interesting and as we go on reading some of them will find it boring but I WOULD SAY THAT YOU ALL CONTINUE READING. The cover page is not very attractive.
Well this is first attempt of the author and he has not disappointed me. Great attempt and great work by him. The urge to reach the climax kept me hooked all the time. I would give 3*/5.
My best wishes to the author for his future books and I would love to read it.
Thank you :)


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