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A review by deepan2486
Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish Tripathi
3.0
So I began reading this book in the first place because I had loved Amish's shiva trilogy.
But opposite to what I liked about the first book of that series (Immortals of Meluha), the opening of this book with its first few chapters bored me like anything. I was recommended that I read Sita: warrior of Mithila before I read this, but I was bent on reading the first part , well , first. I got interested in the story only when I was halfway through. But there's a negative point here too. The style of this series (as clarified by the author himself) is of a multilinear narrative. Which means there are many characters and each of them witness the same happenings from their respective point of views. After some time, a connection brings them all together. But what if there are events when two or more protagonists are simultaneously there in the scene ? Well then the author has to include the same dialogues in the Pov of each character. I faced this issue here too. While writing this book, the author has deliberately left some plotholes and loose ends , which will apparently be clarified in the upcoming parts. As a consequence, I found the sequence of events quite hurried.
Apart from that, the story does become intriguing after a while and it flows smoothly henceforth.
Lastly I'll say, this is obviously a retelling of the Ramayana and the author hasn't changed the main characters. But since it's a retelling or more aptly a reimagining of the epic in alignment with modern age, the story has many deviations from the actual story in the epic. That doesn't bug me at all since after all it's fiction. So readers must not be offended that the author has distorted the Ramayana to suit his writing.....if they honestly think so, they better stop reading mythological fictions altogether.
But opposite to what I liked about the first book of that series (Immortals of Meluha), the opening of this book with its first few chapters bored me like anything. I was recommended that I read Sita: warrior of Mithila before I read this, but I was bent on reading the first part , well , first. I got interested in the story only when I was halfway through. But there's a negative point here too. The style of this series (as clarified by the author himself) is of a multilinear narrative. Which means there are many characters and each of them witness the same happenings from their respective point of views. After some time, a connection brings them all together. But what if there are events when two or more protagonists are simultaneously there in the scene ? Well then the author has to include the same dialogues in the Pov of each character. I faced this issue here too. While writing this book, the author has deliberately left some plotholes and loose ends , which will apparently be clarified in the upcoming parts. As a consequence, I found the sequence of events quite hurried.
Apart from that, the story does become intriguing after a while and it flows smoothly henceforth.
Lastly I'll say, this is obviously a retelling of the Ramayana and the author hasn't changed the main characters. But since it's a retelling or more aptly a reimagining of the epic in alignment with modern age, the story has many deviations from the actual story in the epic. That doesn't bug me at all since after all it's fiction. So readers must not be offended that the author has distorted the Ramayana to suit his writing.....if they honestly think so, they better stop reading mythological fictions altogether.