Wednesday 7 April 2021

Book Review: The Unexpected Leader by Joel Sadanand

Book Detail:
Book Name- The Unexpected Leader
Genre- Fiction
Copy- Kindle eBook.
Pages- 154 pages

Blurb- Ajith, the CEO of India’s most popular coffee chain, Good Morning Inc., is outrageously shocked to hear the pitch from a tech startup: fire all managers and replace them with AI. Though he wants to dismiss the idea, the pitch is ferociously compelling. Before Ajith could take a firm decision, an unexpected tragedy occurs at one of the coffee stores. Ajith loses control over his company overnight. He stages a secretive reverse coup to regain his company.

At the same time, the office of the WHO issues a warning about a global respiratory pandemic to the Indian government, but the prime minister’s office ignores it. Instead, it spends its focus on the developments of Good Morning Inc. Why would the PMO’s office be interested in the incidents of a corporate entity?

Rahul is excited to meet his blind date at one of the coffee shops of Good Morning Inc. What he doesn’t know is that he is just a pawn whose actions are about to trigger an avalanche of consequences in the lives of many people, related and unrelated to Good Morning Inc.

Will Ajith ever regain his company? Will he become the first CEO in the world to successfully use artificial intelligence instead of human leaders to manage its workforce?


Review: The Unexpected Leader is one of the most compelling books I have read recently. Given the book takes its inspiration from the recent CCD incident, Covid pandemic etc real life incidents, it makes the book reading a whole new fun. 


Cover of the book is apt, simple and smart and builds the overall vibe towards the book as the Title suggests.

Author has good narrative skills, author binds readers with the book with his narrative style. As the story progressed i found myself enjoying the slightly different narration of this book.


Characters- Author has given each character enough time and amount of attention. I loved how characters evolved as story progressed.


Storyline and Plot- Both Storyline and Plot of the book are amazing. I enjoyed every page of the book, the story was running smoothly till the very end. As mentioned earlier, the fact that the book has been inspired by the real life incidents of recent times, it added extra flavour to the storyline.


All in all, reading this book was an interesting experience.


Rating- 

BookTitleand Cover- 4/5 a

Narration and Language - 3.5/5

Character Justification- 4/5
Storyline and Plot - 3/5
Overall Rating - 3.5/5 

All in all, The Unexpected Leader is an average read and could be enjoyed by people who want to read something different other than pure indie fictions.


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