A review by emvdw
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

3.75

This one landed on my TBR because someone described it as "Madeline Miller, but make it Hindu" - which is a fitting description. I liked it one but didn't end up loving it. The story moved along nicely and I liked the characters, but I felt the story and characters lacked some dimension at times. Things felt very black-and-white, Kaikeyi's choice is really the only one she could've made - I was expecting some more morally grayness and didn't feel the tension enough there. Her feminism also felt very modern to me, and not shaped by the time/place she was born in.  Still a good read though, I had fun! And fun to dive into a mythology I was not familiar at all with. I also look forward to keeping up with Patel's work - hopefelly it'll mature with her :)