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Taken by Laxmi Hariharan is a standalone novel in the Many Lives Universe and while it would be easier to understand this world if you have read Feral before, but it is still a novel that sucks you right in from the start.

This world is a bit different (and you have no idea how much I adored that! For the first time, I was reading a dystopian romance in a world that is most familiar to me and not in the western countries (ala US of A!).

Jai Iyeroy is the son of the mayor of Bombay – and the city’s most feared soldier. He has taken a vow to protect the ccity against hybrids and he will die to keep his vow!
Aria West has lost everything when London fell; and now her only aim is to confound Jai and get the one thing that will protect her and hers.
Neither of them ever imagined the consequence of their meeting!

This romance literally just sucks you in – the plot is not only intricate but brilliant in its imagery, an imagery that will stay with you long after you are done with the book and you’ll definitely end up with buying all the books in this universe just like I did.

The chemistry between Jai and Aria is not only off the charts, but their emotions, their struggles are so poignantly put across that I ended with a heavy warm ache in my heart for the most part of the book, and being the voracious reader that I am, it has become very difficult for any author to make me feel that way and Ms. Hariharan does it brilliantly.

If any of you are a lover of dystopian genre, and are somewhat disenchanted with the genre now, you should definitely pick up this one – Taken will make you feel not only refreshed, but also make you fall in love with dystopia again <3



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