This will hurt the religious sentiments of many people and has the propensity to cause a lot of controversies. How the author portrayed Rama's character will make many readers angry. I can say that the author didn't show this maturity in many parts of this book. One small mistake can destroy the whole book sometimes. When you are writing a book from the perspective of a negative character from an epic, you should be very careful to handle the character in a mature way. But this one totally went wrong, and some mistakes in the story make this book lackluster. This might be an epic retelling, and I appreciate the author's right to add additional subplots and alter the storyline of the actual book. All excitement was gone as I read about 200 pages of this book. I picked up the book to read as soon as I purchased it. When I came to know that a young law student from the Midwest is the person behind this retelling, I became more curious to read it. The hype and publicity given for this book were also very high. Some of my favorite authors loved this book and congratulated the author for the progressive way she wrote it. Vasudevan Nair and The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni are a few among my favorites. I am also very fond of reading epic retellings. I am a person who loves to read and reread epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana, and also books like Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. This was one of the books that I was most excited to read this year.
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