The story starts up with some explanation about the basic theme and is followed by a strange murder of Kausalya and that’s the point from where the story kick starts. The book’s first impression will force you to pick up the book from the shelves of a book store. Shatru, the name, the cover and the blurb, everything seems to be great. In this kind of atmosphere it’s pretty difficult to take up a risk of writing in the fantasy genre, so for that I would like to congratulate the author, Vadhan for taking up a story which is purely based on fantasy. but very rarely, some Indian fictional authors’ characters appear in front of us. When we talk about fantasy fictions, the most common images that comes up in our mind are of Harry Potter, LOTR etc. Characterization of Shatru (well defined and is having various shades).If he could not stop the Armageddon, ours will be the first world to wear away.

To stop the Primordials from destroying each other, Shatru had to go after an ancient sentinel of Chaos ready to do what it takes just to destroy. Shatru was the only one standing between them. When the brittle line between adversity and aggression was broken they were set on a collision course. The Devas and Asuras, the most powerful of the Primordial Tribes shadow-controlled the financial, political and cultural lives of all of humanity just for one reason, domination over each other through control of terrestrials. If he did not do their bidding, they would kill the one person he loved. That was not the reason he was the best Hunter for the most powerful peace keeping force in all fourteen worlds.

Shatru by Vadhan