[Book Review] Rozabal Line: Book 1 in the Bharat Series of Historical and Mythological Thrillers - Ashwin Sanghi

My Rating

3 star on 5

Book Summary

The Rozabal Line is a mythological conspiracy fiction which tries to comprehend the subject of Jesus having survived the crucifixion and spending his post-crucifixion days in India. The book takes you around the world in a chain of events that happens across time, religion and countries. With interesting plot twists and multiple story-lines, the author has succeeded in making the reader glued to the book by presenting a multi-dimensional story with many possibilities.

Detailed Review

I am always excited to read about religious - mythological - fiction books. Be it any religion. Naturally Ashwin Sanghi's Rozabal Line instilled the curiosity in me and this was a book I was meaning to read for a very long time and never did. 

Let me start the review by saying that I absolutely loved the story premise. Till the very end the author kept me guessing what would happen at the end. I also loved how he tried to bring the story by speculating that Mary Magdalene was a high priestess with spiritual origins from Magadha and the entire revelation on the lineage of Jesus and his connection with India was fascinating to read. I also loved when the author narrated closely knitted analogous events which happened across centuries. 

Having said that, as much as I loved to know the story and kept myself glued to the book, the book was a very hard read. By the time I finished 25% of my book, I felt my head was spinning because of too much information. I was not able to keep up with too many events happening across countries, during different centuries and I felt so lost. To be honest, the important reason why I couldn’t drop this book was because of the extremely intriguing sub story line of Vincent Sinclair and past life regression. 

However,  I can’t help but praise the effort of the author because it is extremely evident that so much of hard work has been put into this. The depth of the research done on this topic is very evident, and I wish it was written better.