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The Clockmaker: Supernaturalsuspense paranormal Indian Drama (Jungle Series Book Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Paromita Goswami (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
Can you change destiny? What if you can?

Ashish, a passionate clockmaker is frustrated with his life - financial insecurity, his ongoing nightmares and his family, wife Lata and son Vicky, are driving him crazy.

Lata is having a tough time in life with her arch-rival, Rashmi. Vicky wants to be a biker than rather join the family legacy of the clockmaker. He also has a crush on Kavya who is more interested in supporting her family than romancing around.

Lately, Ashish starts hallucinating things. The black hooded man, who traumatizes him in the nightmares, warns him of dire consequences if he doesn’t return the timepiece that was given to Ashish by his father at his deathbed. Burdened with despair, Ashish wishes he could change his destiny and end all his miseries. By sheer chance, he discovers the power of the timepiece. Ashish was still figuring out what to do with it when an incident shatters his life completely. Without second thoughts he uses the power of the timepiece to change his destiny. But, can he really change it?

Amid the chaos of the busy by-lanes of the East Delhi unfolds a paranormal, supernatural, Indian drama that will leave you thrilled.
The Jungle Series – Get ready to be assaulted!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07SFZTGKX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ficus India Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2019
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.8 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 231 pages
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Paromita Goswami is a writer and storyteller by passion and a rebel by choice. She says the world is full of stories and as a writer she loves to pen them down. Her work is not genre specific. From literary fiction to children book to upcoming paranormal thriller and women fiction Paromita Goswami‘s books offer the variety of life to her readers. Besides writing, she is also the founder of reading club that enhances book reading habit in children. She lives in central India with her family.

Follow her blog, the diary of a rolling stone to know more about her upcoming work.

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  • Sunanda Chatterjee
    4.0 out of 5 stars A supernatural thriller cum Indian family drama.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019
    The Clockmaker, Book 1 of the Jungle Series, is a supernatural thriller cum family drama. While I love family dramas, I am not particularly fond of supernatural thrillers, but I decided to give this book a try.
    Unhappy with his life of financial stress and family issues, Ashish is haunted by a recurring nightmare of a dark hooded person demanding his clock back. When Ashish realizes it was a clock that has been handed down generations in his family, he also discovers its supernatural powers, i.e., the ability to control time. Being human, Ashish takes a peek at his future and when a tragedy strikes, he attempts to alter destiny. But will it lead to unintended consequences?
    The premise is interesting and the prologue pulls the reader into the story. The introduction of characters in the present day takes you on a journey through time, with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing. The middle is a little slow, and some parts feel a little rushed, but the end makes up for it.
    Look out for Book 2 of the series.
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  • Lily
    3.0 out of 5 stars Destiny
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2019
    Although the narrative moves a little slowly, this is a fun read. I liked the plot but I wish the characters had been a little more developed. Honestly, who wouldn't want to try and change their destiny when things feel like they're all going wrong? But can you ever really escape your destiny? You'll have to read to find out.
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  • MonasZoo
    2.0 out of 5 stars Sadly not my kind of book
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019
    The Clockmaker by Paromita Goswami is unlike any book I have read to date. I started reading this book pretty much blindly, meaning without reading what it was really about, and I do that a lot. I figure it is in the paranormal genre, odds are I will like it. sadly this time around my luck has failed me just a tad.

    I had a difficult time getting into this book and actually staying with it. The first quarter of the book was very slow and was kind of drifting along in the story aimlessly it felt like. The pace of the book was on the slow side and I always felt a little that the story was dragging out just a bit, which of course made it tough to pick it up again.

    The plot had promise but in my eyes wasn't very well executed and quite honestly has been done before, and I can't explain how I mean that without giving away spoilers. And now I still won't give away spoilers. Just because this book was not for me does not mean it isn't for you and therefore I won't ever give away spoilers. There were definitely some flaws in the plot. Another issue with the plot was, that there were at times rather sudden changes in the scenes, almost like the author couldn't wait to get to it and then finish it quickly, just odd.
    Voluntary review of Advance Reader Copy. I was given a complimentary copy of this book by the publisher.

    There were quite a few conversations that just didn't feel right and I was like that is just not how people speak with each other, even with slang and various accents, it's just too odd.
    And of course how some people reacted to things that happened in the book just didn't seem "natural" quite a bit.

    Another smaller problem, there were some editorial issues like grammar errors, misused or missing words and the like, but maybe that is because I had an ARC copy? So that one I won't count and it was only just a couple of them really. What was a little bit more of an issue to me was the way it was written, in this simplistic style I want to call it since I don't have a better way to name it.

    And the characters, I honestly couldn't connect to any of them. For one even though most of the book was the characters since that was pretty much the plot, them and the time piece, there really wasn't much character development and I didn't really get to know much of any of them and really don't particularly feel like cheering for any. If any Kavya is probably the nicest and the one who is the one who deserves a lot more in this book, the others don't impress me much at all.

    So after having read the book I thought let's read the little description that tells the reader about the book to pick it up and read it, yeah when I read that I felt no connection to the book, it was really weird. Basically what it describes what happens around midway I think but I don't know, it just gives me a different vibe than I have now after I read the book.

    I really wanted to like this book but sadly this one just wasn't for me. I didn't connect with the characters nor the story and to me there just wasn't enough happening, it is just more slice of life kind of book in my eyes which just isn't me. But with that being said, this does not mean this book can't be the right read for others. If you like Indian culture you can learn some about it in this book.
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  • Kalyan Panja
    4.0 out of 5 stars the symbolic story of a journey into consciousness
    Reviewed in India on June 16, 2019
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    A past that cannot be erased, shadows that chase one's destiny in time and space and a sense of guilt that tears apart. This and more is The Clockmaker, a supernatural thriller that broadens its horizons to become the symbolic story of a journey into consciousness, and the epic song of pain for a humanity condemned to reiterate and discount its mistakes in an alienating time loop.

    The writer presents a story full of suspense and pathos, enclosed in the limited and labyrinthine space of an opaque reality that will soon be distorted and painted red. Attracted by the beautiful cover I decided to throw myself on the reading of this novel from the plot that seems so simple but that in reality it is not. This novel really surprised me because, behind an almost banal story, there is a small complex and well-built gem.

    It is a genre novel that is difficult to place, because even though it is a supernatural thriller, it contains in its pages a complexity of nuances, themes and emotions that it is difficult to enclose in a simple definition. The story shows itself to be interesting right from the start.

    The narrative is divided into two parts: the one during which we see the disturbed family life of Ashish with his wife and son, the second in which the supernatural element appears and, at times, steampunk that sees the protagonist in the centre.

    All of this slowly emerges and, like Ashish, the reader is also immersed in a banal life devoid of any emotion, an existence made of apathy and days identical to each other, up to the mysterious appearance of this clock. The situation and the paranoid suspicions of the protagonist gradually increase until a hidden story is revealed.

    Until the last page you can never completely grasp the "unsaid" of this character who hides behind his watches, in his strange machines almost alive and which has a very special gift. The narration progresses intertwining, in alternate chapters for most of the book, the events of a family of our time with that of his ancestor.

    And just like a puzzle, as it proceeds, the story becomes more and more exciting, in a crescendo of emotions and curiosities that encourage you to identify with the main protagonist and to want to complete with him the journey that destiny seems to give him.

    What about this book without spoiling it too much? I found the setting very beautiful and the descriptions accurate and evocative. The characters are "normal", but not too much, and they all wear a mask. The story is really special and captivating and the ending really left me blown away.

    I loved it, the story took me immediately, with a rhythm of reading that becomes more and more fluent as the events intertwine. The prose used, albeit simple and direct, is extremely accurate, in the form and meaning of the words, while sometimes proving to be very sober in the construction of sentences.

    It is a dizzying novel that cannot be forgotten and where there is no consolation, because what has been has been and cannot be changed. And all that is left for the characters is to dig up a lost truth, and expiate their own faults.

    Apart from the slowness, which I think is a precise choice of the writer, I really liked the book, I enjoyed it with interest and kept me in suspense until the conclusion. I also really appreciated the coexistence of several genres that mix in a very "natural" way, so much so that I don't know whether to call it exactly a supernatural novel with a touch of fantasy or something else.
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  • Richa
    3.0 out of 5 stars Simple yet intriguing read
    Reviewed in India on June 10, 2019
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    Book starts in 1948 when a clockmaker is returning from Alwar after repairing royal clock. Due to some circumstances, he forgets his way to home and gets lost in jungle. There he met a black hooded man who asks him to mend his timepiece. This timepiece has the ability to control the time. The clockmaker greedily take away that timepiece with him. This timepiece keeps on passing to his next generations.
    Later, story sets in 2017 where Aashish belonging to clockmaker's family is handling the family business of clockmaking. He has a wife, Lata, who is ambitious and she wants Aashish to join her father's eatery business. They have a son, Vicky, who is pursuing MBA and is in love with Kavya, a girl at his institute.
    Aashish always looks at the portraits of his father and grand father and think how they have such a calm look on their faces. He notices a timepiece in every picture and then he searches for it. He finds the timepiece and get to know about it's power.
    What's the secret of timepiece? Will it be helpful for Aashish? Will it change his destiny?
    Read this book to know this.
    In the beginning, I wasn't expecting much from this book. But, as the story moves forward it kept me intrigued. Language is simple. Some incidents got a little cliche like love story of Kavya and Vicky, but it was described beautifully.
    In the middle, I found it to be little lengthy. Otherwise it's a good one-time read.
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  • Geeta Nair
    4.0 out of 5 stars Time the Master and his decisions
    Reviewed in India on July 26, 2019
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    What if you could go back in time and change certain things? What if you could move forward and see what the future holds for you? Tempting isn’t it? Wouldn’t you jump for it? Well that’s exactly what ‘The Clockmaker’ is all about. Starting with an interesting and riveting prelude, the book takes us on a journey through time and space only to tell us that one’s destiny is predetermined. Tempted to tamper with it? Go ahead…..But get ready for a shock. Just like Time and tide wait for no man, destiny too does not bow down before the mortal.

    Interesting and intriguing, ‘The Clockmaker’ is a fine example of Author Paromita Goswami’s growth as an author. She has come a long way from ‘Shamsuddin’s Grave’ which she authored way back in 2015, in terms of creativity, style and language. :) The book, which is a part of The Jungle Series that the author is bringing out, is a mix of the paranormal and psychological.

    With power comes great responsibility. However if that responsibility is pitched against your family, which would you choose? Given what human nature is, the general tendency would be to secure the self and loved ones first. Ashish the clockmaker, from an illustrious family of clockmakers chances upon an antique timepiece passed down as a family heirloom, a timepiece long forgotten and buried by in a side table. The chance find which holds immense powers, turns out to be the turning point in his life. An insight into the future tempts Ashish the father to tamper with the timepiece, and thereby time. The cascading effect of this action of his impacts many lives. A man out to control time and destiny finally falls victim to his own actions both physically and mentally. Will Ashish be able to undo his actions, will he see light at the end of the tunnel, or is all this just a mere figment of his imagination?.....Only time and a reading of this book, will reveal.

    Replete with various emotions like greed, possessiveness, jealousy, horror and subtle romance, the book brings out the best and the worst in each character, with its evocative language. While the prelude sets up a riveting background to the story, the first quarter of the actual story pales in comparison to the same. Thereafter the pace picks up and the actual story starts to bind the reader. From there on there is no looking back.
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  • AVIDReader worm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely engaging
    Reviewed in India on June 21, 2019
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    The Clockmaker was definitely a unique story line and completely different from what i had expected it to be. I have read the author’s work before and compared to those, the clockmaker was a unique theme and approach. I have seen the amount of strength and work she weaves around the emotional stabilities and vulnerabilities of her characters and previous books that i have read of the author was a prime example of that. Her books attempted to tell the stories from an emotional angle rather than just narration of events in the book. This book do follow the same pattern about taking a story on its character’s emotional strength but much more than that, this time the book completely took me by surprise by the theme of the book. It was definitely not what i had expected

    I loved how the author opened the book with a very captivating scene as it definitely set a tone for the book. It worked two ways. One to promise what the book had to offer and the other to grab the readers. To be honest, if the book had not started the way it did, i might have had a different opinion and not a pleasant one at that. There is a reason for that because after that surprising opening chapter the book kind of takes a sudden dip. Perhaps it was so that the events can slowly catch fire and leading to the inferno it is.

    One of the major factor about the book that is unique as well a bit challenging is the fact that the story is narrated in episodical form. It almost feels like scene by scene rendition of the story. This is an interesting technique but demands the readers to be patient to get used to this technique of Scene.cut. Scene. It did bother me at first as to how one scene wasn’t transitioning to another scene seamlessly but gradually i started seeing the fun of author’s narration technique. Perhaps the reason that the events escalates after a certain point adds to the fun and easing the readers to the book

    In conclusion i would say that the author has managed to narrate a pretty unique story and one that has a massive lesson behind it. My piece of advise is to wait till the second half when the book completely changes its nature and things just takes you to a new high in the story and by the end it completely turns out to be an engaging stream of events after events. The narration technique is a challenge but once you get used to it will be a fun way to read and engage.
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  • Nilima Mohite
    4.0 out of 5 stars You cant cheat Time
    Reviewed in India on July 12, 2019
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    I have read a Paranormal book after ages. Wow, it actually made me sit up and wait to see what happened next. The Clockmaker by Paromita Goswami is Book 1 of The Jungle series. If Book 1 was so interesting as well as spine tingling, I am more than eager to read the next books in the series.
    It was actually interesting to read this story. Albeit with a spine tingling suspense around like a heavy fog throughout the story.

    The entire story shows how Destiny and Time is already planned out for each of us. We are mere puppets. Also Karma comes back every time. No excuses.
    This story has many facets and I loved how Author Paromita has delved into each of them.

    There are stories and incidents within one another. I loved how each layer unraveled.
    After a point, you stop trying to guess what will happen next coz its totally different.
    This one only made me look forward to read it when I got a few minutes of free time.

    The characters were perfect in each time space and portrayed real human emotions. Few characters and a tight script. The language was simple and clean. The flow of story consistent.

    Some parts were super gory and scary. I liked how the grandfathers and fathers revealed the secret and tried to help Ashish through the nightmares.

    I am now thankful for having a good, normal life and ease of getting sleep every night. My heart just went out to all those people who suffer from insomnia and releated mental ailments.
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