Book review: Songs of the Reed

 Book review : 

🌸 Sometimes children need to be told stories. Sometimes lies.

🌸 Songs of the Reed is an impactful story that deals with many themes. These include refugee suffering, marital rape, social sanctions, communal discrimination and many more. Dealing with such sensitive themes this book has a deep impact and long lasting effect on the minds of the readers.

🌸 This book shares  a story of two girls Noor and Reva scouting for their roots. Noor lives in Spain and embarks on a quest of her real home where as Reva a adorable girl from an orphanage in New Delhi is on an unfaltering hunt for her family. Its quite intriguing to notice and witness how their paths meet.

🌸 The book is divided into five parts and each part has a different colour to predict.

A small prose from the book that really touched me:

"Dont wait for the sun to swell,

To light your lamp.

The sombre sky was your time ,

And the crescent was waning

Just for you.

..............

So you can kindle the fire of hope

Get your wick and oil

The infinite empyrean has devised a second chance 

Just for you.

🌸 The author has well penned the various themes and well crafted the two lives and the way their paths cross was mesmerizing. The story line is quite well plotted and the characters  are done justice.

🌸 I loved reading this impactful read and would recommend this fabulous read to everyone.

🌸 Happy Reading!