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The Legend of Meneka
by Kritika H. Rao
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Legend of Meneka is a fantastic read, a wild adventure full of love, hope, devotion, and wild emotion. The novels overall message is that love comes in every shape and form, and all of it is divinely inspired and worthy of celebration. It spins a grand tale of learning to love oneself as much as one loves others. That love comes with its own difficulties and is a practice as much as an emotion.
The story begins with a young beautiful celestial who struggles against what she is told is her nature, of lust and devouring appetites. Meneka is a gentle and tender being who loves as deeply as she questions the world around her. She struggles to understand and see herself for who she is, much like any other person. As she grows into herself and learns more about the truth of the works around her she finds herself in emotional turmoil trying to reconcile the many parts of herself, which, i find deeply relatable and that many readers will love and feel with her.
Meneka and Kaushika's romance is organic and bursting with raw chemistry; their personalities oppositional yet complementary. The transition from enemies to lovers progresses naturally and healthfully. I enjoyed that this romance though the pair squabble and fight never enters abusive territory. They both learn an grow from one another and bring out the best in each other. Each page makes the reader yearn with Meneka for ger budding forbidden love for her target. At times the innocent and pure pining from her to Kaushika reminded me of my own first crushes and made me blush at times.
I loved how this story ended and it brought together all of the emotions and to me ends with hope and love. There is a wide variety of queer characters; nonbinary, trans, gay men, gay women and I loved all of them. The representation is organic and tender, the characters are all their own people and matter to the plot instead of being tokens or cheap punches.
The only reason I marked this 4 out of 5 is some of the smut is written a bit clumsy for me personally. Phrases like "just there" , "my entrance", "my folds" , "tongue savaging" zonked me out of the scenes that took several hundred pages to build. They weren't bad and I was excited to read them after so much thoughtful build up and masterful pining.
Otherwise a great read!
The story begins with a young beautiful celestial who struggles against what she is told is her nature, of lust and devouring appetites. Meneka is a gentle and tender being who loves as deeply as she questions the world around her. She struggles to understand and see herself for who she is, much like any other person. As she grows into herself and learns more about the truth of the works around her she finds herself in emotional turmoil trying to reconcile the many parts of herself, which, i find deeply relatable and that many readers will love and feel with her.
Meneka and Kaushika's romance is organic and bursting with raw chemistry; their personalities oppositional yet complementary. The transition from enemies to lovers progresses naturally and healthfully. I enjoyed that this romance though the pair squabble and fight never enters abusive territory. They both learn an grow from one another and bring out the best in each other. Each page makes the reader yearn with Meneka for ger budding forbidden love for her target. At times the innocent and pure pining from her to Kaushika reminded me of my own first crushes and made me blush at times.
I loved how this story ended and it brought together all of the emotions and to me ends with hope and love. There is a wide variety of queer characters; nonbinary, trans, gay men, gay women and I loved all of them. The representation is organic and tender, the characters are all their own people and matter to the plot instead of being tokens or cheap punches.
The only reason I marked this 4 out of 5 is some of the smut is written a bit clumsy for me personally. Phrases like "just there" , "my entrance", "my folds" , "tongue savaging" zonked me out of the scenes that took several hundred pages to build. They weren't bad and I was excited to read them after so much thoughtful build up and masterful pining.
Otherwise a great read!