This is my post during the blog tour for Boondocks by Jaydeeb Shah. Boondocks is the first book in a new Apocalyptic Thriller series by Jaydeeb Shah.
This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours and the tour runs from 13 till 26 June. You can see the tour schedule here.
By Jaydeeb Shah
Genre: Apocalyptic Thriller
Age category: Adult
Release Date: 9 June 2022
Blurb:
They believe it is only about defeat and escape.
Little do they know; it is something more than that. It is about the rise of the dead and the world’s destruction.
Lost in the desert of Rajasthan, India, Rahul and Elisa learn the truth about a wicked wizard named Dansh and some enchanters performing resurrection rituals.
Though they try to stop him, Dansh knows black magic and they find him a challenging adversary. Even worse than him, Rahul and Elisa soon discover that the churel named Dali has returned. Soon, the King of the Underworld, an immortal rakshasa named Sekiada, will make his way to the earth with the force of his thousands of fallen angels to conquer the world.
Rahul and Elisa must find a way to stop them and save humanity.
Terror inflames the nation. The country’s best commando, Aarav Singh, and the best local police officer, Arjun Rawat, reach the city’s border near the desert with the force of gifted soldiers to commence battle against evil. They turn the border into a battlefield to prevent the demons from entering the city.
The apocalypse is struggling to reach its highest peak as the Asian evils slowly spread across the nation: churels, rakshasas, pishachas, daayans, shaitans, and many more hair-raising bloodshed lovers.
Rahul must find a way to murder the immortals: the wicked wizard, the king of the Underworld, and the strongest churel of all time, and Elisa must gather her own courage to battle the demons, especially one of the immortals, to prove women are not weak.
Welcome to the world of horror, where the characters play games of deceit and betrayal to achieve their goals, and the demons enjoy slaughtering the humans.
The end is near. Or it’s just the beginning!? Dare to witness the apocalypse, but only if you are comfortable with bloodbath and barbarity.
PROLOGUE
5000
years ago
Rajasthan,
India
In the small,
secluded village Kendraa somewhere in the middle of 500,000 km2 of desert
and home to only about three hundred or so people, residents halted their work
of woodcutting, ceramics, and making dung cakes and rushed into their Wigwam
huts. Five minutes passed, and then the village’s
mukhiya, Ram, a fifty-five-year-old who looked
like he was thirty, began to patrol, scrutinizing whether
everyone had secured themselves in their huts. From the way the villagers had run
and how Ram was inspecting the village, it was crystal clear
that it was their routine; each of them was aware of the regular impending
doom that escalated at or after dusk.
After everyone had locked themselves in, and when Ram found
no one outside still working or wandering around, he locked himself in his own hut.
Two other huts flanked it on each side, and they stood only a few inches away
from the dirt road.
In one of the huts near to Ram’s, a child sat with his
father.
“I’m scared, papa,” said a boy after a brief look at his
father, who was sitting on the ground against the wall. The man secured his
child in a hug with an expression of dread, startled at his son’s rush of feelings.
Then he forced a fake smile, patted his son’s back, and kissed his forehead, assuring
him that he was safe with his dad. The boy’s fear vanished, and he smiled back.
All the while, the child’s mother sat against the wall opposite, hugging her
knees and crying silently, keeping her face hidden in the hollow between her
legs and breast to prevent scaring her son.
In one of the other huts, another wife cried, this one hugging
her husband. “She ate my brother last month, my sister last week, and your
brother yesterday. I don’t want to lose you.”
She was talking about an evil lady who visited the
village after dusk and enjoyed massacring humans and eating their flesh.
A sense of apprehension dangled over every hut.
*
* *
At the end
of the desert, in a cave a few miles away from the village’s border, a churel (witch)
named Dali glowed in the moonless night. She began to consume negative powers
from the environment, levitating herself with her eyes closed and hands wide
open. Dali, whom no one could kill with any weapon
known to man, appeared out of nowhere about a year ago and had resided in the
cave near Kendraa Village ever since. She did this not only because she had
found humans to hunt but also for her own security.
Though it was true no one could kill her with any type
of known weapon, the villagers didn’t know that she had a fatal flaw: she could
be captured in any object and killed by fire. She knew if she began hunting
humans in a bigger kingdom, a king might find a tantrik, the one who has
thorough knowledge about mysticism and magic rituals, rishi (a sage), or
someone else with this knowledge. They might capture with the help of a
devotional hymn, black magic, tantra, or curse, or even execute her. But
Kendraa Village was secluded; very few people knew about it, and it was rare that
a traveler or a rishi passed by.
The villagers believed in God. They worshipped God, day
and night, and they knew devotional hymns well. Yet, there was no one strong
enough to use one against Dali—not enough to weaken
her and capture her, and certainly not to terminate her. That was the reason Dali
was completely safe here.
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Jaydeep Shah is an avid traveler and a multi-genre author. As a bachelor’s degree holder in Creative Writing, he aims to entertain as many as people he can with his stories. He is best known for Tribulation, the first book in the “Cops Planet” series.
In addition to those books, The Shape-Shifting Serpents’ Choice, Jaydeep’s first young adult flash fiction written under his pen name, JD Shah, is published online by Scarlet Leaf Review in their July 2019 issue. Currently, he’s endeavoring to write a debut young adult fantasy novel while working on a sequel to his first apocalyptic thriller, Havoc.
When Shah is not writing, he reads books, tries new restaurants, and goes on adventures.
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