8 Hours by Upendra Namburi | Book Review

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8 Hours
Author: Upendra Namburi
Pages: 290



8 Hours by Upendra Namburi is a story about Aratrika Reddy, the Charismatic CEO of ARYA Holdings Ltd., who has just 8 Hours to save her company from certain bankruptcy and a takeover. She doesn’t have to save her company from the banks, politicians, bureaucrats, investors, power brokers but also from her dreaded family who have their own plans about the company. Aratrika has to fight the demons not only out of her company but also within the company. Will she be able to save her company under these known and unknown circumstances? Only time will tell if Aratrika manages to change the fate of ARYA Holdings Ltd., to be precise only 8 Hours to change the game and save the company.

Aratrika Reddy is a strong woman and a wise leader as well. She has risen from the ashes left behind by her father’s cruelty on herself and her mother & brothers. She hates her father for her broken family, the abuses he has hurled upon them and the corrupted way in which he has built ARYA. She wants to become everything that her father couldn’t be and yet unknowingly in the process of achieving her goals she becomes like her father and hates herself for that.  
Then there’s Aratrika Reddy’s husband Siddhartha who also wants to make ARYA Holdings Ltd. his own. We also get to meet some other characters such as Madhusudhan Reddy (Aratrika’s father) who is pulling the strings from behind and Jagannath Reddy (Aratrika’s Uncle) who is planning a dangerous game of manipulation.
My Opinion: It is a page turner and kept me on the edge throughout the book. We get to see all the events taking place during these 8 Hours starting from 1:00 am to 9:22 am and the decisions that are taken by Aratrika in these stressful hours to save her company. We get to see what may be a real scenario in a company during such instances, the sleepless night of all the people in the company to save their company. We also get to see how things work with the help of money and bribery inside the corporate world. But, I felt the ending was a little rushed and a little more details could have done wonders. Overall, it was an amazing book and someone who loves reading about businesses and takeovers would surely enjoy this book as every page as some twists and turn.

Rating: 4/5

Disclaimer: I received this book from WritersMelon in exchange for my honest review.

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