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Time Guard by Anmol Batra is the first book in 21st Century series.

Time Guard: The Awakening by Anmol Batra is the first book in 21st Century series. This is a Scifi, Fantasy, time travel thriller set in India. So, read the blurb, publication history, genre, Book Review and buy links below.

About Time Guard: The Awakening by Anmol Batra:

No. of Pages: 377
Series: 21st Century #1
Publication Date: July 2018
Genre: Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Indian Writing, Time Travel, Supernatural Abilities, Superhero, Indian Mythology, Scifi, Debut

Time Guard: The Awakening by Anmol Batra Blurb:

When a young corporate, Swati receives a set of envelopes at her office table, she is shocked by its contents. Each envelope has a date and time of its opening written on it. Also, each envelope has a warning message scribbled on it.
“Please open this envelope at the time mentioned below your name.”
She ignores, tears the first envelope and pulls out the page inside it. She uncovers a thick drawing sheet scratched in the middle with pencil; a hand-written line in the centre of the sheet.
“I requested that you open the envelope at 12:30 PM. Envelopes not opened on time will lose their contents. The time right now is 09:00:25 AM”
Swati checks her wristwatch and exhales sharply; her wristwatch ticks round to 9:00:25, accurate to the very second.
Who sent her those envelopes?
What exactly does he or she wants if he doesn’t want Swati to know the future before hand?
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A Soul is nothing but an energy with a conscious. A wave that can move across space, time and matter. The wave that your mind finally releases when you die. But a few gifted ones have the ability to leave the shackles of mind and return to physical self at will.
What if I told you that there are people on this planet that can leave their body and travel the universe as a soul, they can travel both forward and backward in time.Some manipulate the world for their own selfish interest & a few devour themselves with the responsibility to harmonize and protect the world.
The question is, are you sure such people don’t exist?

Time Guard: The Awakening by Anmol Batra Book Review

Time Guard: The awakening is Anmol Batra’s debut book that brings a spicy mix of mystery, thriller and suspense with a teleportation capable, time travelling hero to the readers. 

 
A woman receives mysterious envelopes to be opened at specific times with the sender knowing her future actions in advance, a doctor disappears from work and a Pakistani player set to participate in the Commonwealth Games is arrested. So many random incidents with normal people seemingly unconnected to each other are put forth by the author. You keep deliberating how they are connected and what is the mystery but you need to have patience because though the story starts slow, it soon picks up pace and the picture starts to get clearer.
 

Things I liked:

I enjoyed the novelty of the concept and the admirable way in which the author weaved his concept into a story. The book has everything from mystery to suspense to a superhero like protagonist to the blend of Hindu mythology in the story.
 
The writing is lucid and crisp with beautiful sketches of the events thrown in to make the story more realistic. 
 
I enjoyed reading this book and am looking forward to reading the next book in the “21st Century” series.
 
The only point that I think needs improvement is the slow start. The story doesn’t make sense as a whole until a few chapters with events seeming disconnected and rapidly changing locations with different characters. The readers will have to be patient and persevere for the first few chapters until the story starts connecting to give a clear picture.
 

Conclusion:

All in all, Time Guard: The Awakening is a promising debut by Anmol Batra that had me travelling places as the story progressed. I enjoyed reading this book that is so pleasantly different from the other books that I have recently read. So, Njkinny recommends this book to anyone and everyone looking for story that is engrossing, entertaining and a whole lot different from the usual books in the market.
 
4 stars out of 5 to Time Guard: The Awakening by Anmol Batra and I look forward to reading more from the author in the future.

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