I finish my book, checking the time as I place it on my bedside table. 3:00am. Oh, I’ll be fine! That’s like a whole three hours sleep.

Let me tell you, when my alarm went off at 6am? I was in fact, not fine 😅

I’ve seen so many people dislike this book in its reviews. I think the endnote is something everyone should read for this book. It talks about the author’s intentions with writing the book.

The Mahabharata is an epic that is over 1.8 million words so the people who are saying the story felt rushed, I fear there is no way to not make this story feel well-paced because even here, there are many people and subplots that were not conveyed.

I need people to think about this like a fanfic bc that’s what a retelling kinda is. So you should understand the original before starting and don’t be mad when the story follows the same plot of the Mahabharata.

The book introduces about 30 characters give or take but I didn’t have trouble keeping them in line. I reccommend drawing a family tree when they introduce characters cause many people feel it’s too hard to grasp the characters.

I reccommend getting accustomed with the Mahabharata story in general before reading because this book is almost a summary of it but you might not grasp it without any prior knowledge. The author says that she wanted the book to follow the story but highlight Ganga without changing it too much so I sort of despise the people who didn’t like the plot, because that’s the plot of the original epic. And further, the author says she wanted to focus on Ganga and how she sort of ripple affected the entire Mahabharata. So to all the people who didn’t like how many chapters weren’t from her perspective, I fear that might be the point is that she did so little in human form, but her choices haunted the entire story.