The Group of Fools by Yaagneshwaran G

Genre: Fiction; Pages 136; Paperback: Rs 150, ISBN no. 978-93-81205-66-2

"The Group of Fools"

The Group of Fools is a tale of a group of friends in a Business School.

Each had a different attitude, a different mindset and was from a different background.

And then there was love, ambition and more complications.

A recession that worsened the situation.

Will they rise to the occasion?

Welcome to the journey of the Group of Fools.

These lines welcomes the reader, looks light as a read and cover page compliments it. 

A nice cover page to start with, a very important factor in success or failure of any book. Cover creates a scene before even someone start to read the book. 

A light version of writing, sometimes straight, sometimes deep, sometimes lost the track, sometimes straight - The book doesn't grip till reaching the mid parts. Incidents happen very fast and with chapters time, scenes, importance, depth changes. 

While reading the book, I lost the focus many times. Author did not try to link readers to any character. Story just moved on as if no-one is very important to the book. But, I waited and read more, and it happened, story gripped me after finishing almost half of pages and later it was entertaining and the book finished with a positive and a strong message. The Author managed to close the story successfully and the book was entertaining and gripped attention in the second half.

There were other factors as well, which grabbed my attention. Minor flaws, some positives and some negatives. Content page was not really required in the book but was added, that's fine, but giving the list of content in the "Chiller" font confused me, this font is normally used to give a suspense or a horror gesture. Why it was used in the content page remained unanswered even after finishing the read. 

Later, the print of the book is in the font "Comic S", this font is liked by teens and gives a feeling of a "Light and funny" read. I was pleased and expected the book to give that content, in some chapters, yer it happened however towards the end of the book when the Author was really serious in discussion and the story line was meeting eyes, that font gave a funny feeling. 

I would call it the "Editing Errors" - for the story which is mixed in emotions, Using basic fonts like "Arial" or "Georgia" is the best strategy. Author should not be blamed for this at all.

This book will be liked by people who are/were ever related to Business Schools. I scanned a thorough life cycle of a B-School through this book. Author was successful in this part and managed to deliver his area of interest and a should read for B-School related people.


For a normal reader book may seem to be boring for fist half but the second half of the book is a worth read for all.


A good read, I personally liked it. The Editing part of the book is not satisfactory part however the Author should not be blamed for that.