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emotional
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
WHICH WAY DO I TURN WHEN THE ROAD'S BECOME SO TWISTED?
I read the Mahabharata for a college class and I'm amazed how much I remembered. Even though I read a translation, and I didn't read the Ramayana (yet?), Patel perfectly captures that voice of an epic in her storytelling. It's an equally exciting read and an epic in its own right. It's such an interesting concept / premise: religion + history + men (ancient and modern) and their belief that war and power and conquest is their divine right / destiny, but what about the women in their lives? What about the every day issues that need to be solved? And the idea that a woman's destiny is to suffer to make any significant change... The woman has no free will yet tries to carve her own destiny yet the gods are against her yet it's all apart of their plan yet yet yet! There's just so many layers! I gasped so many times! What a tale!
Rama fell down the cosmic Pewdiepipeline. Tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.
I read the Mahabharata for a college class and I'm amazed how much I remembered. Even though I read a translation, and I didn't read the Ramayana (yet?), Patel perfectly captures that voice of an epic in her storytelling. It's an equally exciting read and an epic in its own right. It's such an interesting concept / premise: religion + history + men (ancient and modern) and their belief that war and power and conquest is their divine right / destiny, but what about the women in their lives? What about the every day issues that need to be solved? And the idea that a woman's destiny is to suffer to make any significant change... The woman has no free will yet tries to carve her own destiny yet the gods are against her yet it's all apart of their plan yet yet yet! There's just so many layers! I gasped so many times! What a tale!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War
Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Physical abuse, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment
Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Xenophobia