The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Though the book started with finding a lost friend of Shiva, in the previous book, the Secret of the Nagas, most of the first few chapters was just about Somras - its importance versus its evil, which took the reading experience to a little near boring.
The story spun around too many real life characters and pristine imagination. Every chapter towards the middle of the book kindled interest to move on and the actual pace started only in the second half after Shiva's army enters Meluhan territory to attack and destroy Somras manufacturing facilities inside Meluhan capital, Devagiri.
It really became a page turner after Sati's ferocious fights and her brutal death which lead to an angry Shiva destroy an entire city with Pashupatiastra, the then atom bomb. Its really brain tickling to read on that Shiva who is worshipped as a God in HIndu culture got his name as a destroyer of evil through Somras and Devagiri. Its quite annoying to read that all the Gods which Hindus worship in reverence once upon a time walked this country with human flesh and blood. Even Lord Ganesh, Karthik (Lord Subramanyam or Ayyappa worshipped in South India) and Kali (as Goddess Kali) in Bengal were pulled into this.
It was a well laid out plot with a definite research methodology adopted unfolding into present day towns, cities and states, carrying the legacy of the past but forgotten principles and ethics on which these great men and women actually became Gods.
I would like to ask the author, if he could reveal any such authentic guides, books, records he might have referred to while writing the Shiva Trilogy, to unearth even some more possible truths and knowledge that might have been hidden in this vast ocean of Indian mythological heritage.



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