Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Gourav Mohanty
Writes: Epic mythological fantasies that take you through the dark and delightful nooks of Ancient India where the stakes are high, the betrayals personal, and the heists so bold they’d make a career saint consider the charms of crime.
About: A connoisseur of momos and mythologies, Gourav Mohanty daylights as a lawyer, moonlights as a comic and gaslights as a storyteller. Best dumb charades player to have on your team. Books, whisky and visas will probably be the reasons he goes bankrupt in the future.
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
- Wants to travel to exotic lands beyond Europe.
- Finds joy in the kind of plot twists that could make a pretzel feel straight.
- Thinks that a good book should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
- Believes that every good story deserves a touch of mischief and a pint of murky morals.
What to expect if we're compatible:
- A romantic urge to send me Hate DMs for breaking your heart while making you laugh.
- Frequent flyer miles through ancient mythological realms of Hinduism without the jet lag.
A season of peace is the finest time to plant the seeds of war.
A pirate-queen discovers the only gold around is in the bars of her cage.
A temple-courtesan's heart dances for the archer she was tasked to destroy.
A librarian learns how to steal to save the world from an ancient plague.
As the Conclave of Peace dawns in the Tree Cities of the East to decide the future of the realm, deaf swordswomen and exiled snakelings, spoilt heroes and lovesick princes, immortal assassins and their apprentices will find no sun to light their path.
For the Son of Darkness rises, boiling over with a wrath that all the oracles in the world cannot hope to stop. After all, seeing the future is one thing, changing it is quite another…
...Unless it is through a heist
Fantasy Epic | Fantasy Dark [Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book, On Sale: February 25, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book , ISBN: 9781035900275 / eISBN: 9781035900299]
GOURAV MOHANTY-Author, Lawyer, Stand Up Comedian, Papercut Survivor, Pretend Swordfighter, Recovering Burgers Addict. As evident, his life has many tabs open.
Though he was doing well as a lawyer in Mumbai, he is now pursuing the infinitely more unattainable dream of being the first 'epic fantasy novelist' of India. A connoisseur of mythologies and momos, he has earned numerous scholarships in his time at law school, one of which took him to the castles of Europe. Ever since, he has been drawn to conjuring a world where Vedic India meets Medieval Renaissance.
Sons of Darkness is Gourav’s first novel. Give it a shot for the poor author owes considerable gold to goblins.
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