Rama was born to slay the King Ravana, of modern day Sri Lanka, who had through many years of penance and prayer amassed a horde of gifts from the gods making him essentially unbeatable. As the stories go, avatars are born every so often to rid the world of specific evils (one is due at some point in our current age, which is a disaster zone clearly so uh not sure what they’d be here to destroy). Kaikeyi tells the story of the third and youngest wife of King Dasaratha, king of Ayodha, and father of Lord Rama, one of the avatars (human incarnations) of Lord Vishnu, the divine embodiment of preservation (one of the trinity, with the other two being destruction and creation). I don’t know what it is! I think it’s because I know these epic tales very well, and I can see the plot points that have always made me go ughhhmehhhhehhhheThen again, there are many books that I read which I really enjoy because I feel like characters always do the thing that I think they should. While I do think this book was major struggle city to get through for numerous plot-related issues, I’d like to give my standard disclaimer around books featuring South Asian protagonists or based on South Asian mythology: I am, unfortunately, a harder grader than I might be for stories based on other cultures.
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