![]() ![]() I read KAIKEYI right as I was plunging into a (completely expected, given how busy I’d been for three months) reading slump. And Kaikeyi must decide if resistance is worth the destruction it will wreak - and what legacy she intends to leave behind.īlurb taken from Goodreads. ![]() With this power, Kaikeyi transforms herself from an overlooked princess into a warrior, diplomat, and most favoured queen, determined to carve a better world for herself and the women around her.īut as the evil from her childhood stories threatens the cosmic order, the path she has forged clashes with the destiny the gods have chosen for her family. And when she calls upon the gods for help, they never seem to hear.ĭesperate for some measure of independence, she turns to the texts she once read with her mother and discovers a magic that is hers alone. ![]() Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, listens as her own worth is reduced to how great a marriage alliance she can secure. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on tales about the might and benevolence of the gods: how they churned the vast ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land of Bharat prospers, and how they offer powerful boons to the devout and the wise. “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions - much good it did me.” ![]()
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It was directed by Kevin Macdonald, written by Tony Grisoni, Jeremy Brock and Penelope Skinner while starring Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Anna Chancellor and Corey Johnson. ![]() How I Live Now is a 2013 romantic speculative drama film based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() We might also question the cause of this change in the narrator. They obviously have the narrator’s wife in common as the most important woman – now Robert’s wife has died – in each of their lives. Both men like whiskey and, it turns out, smoking weed. Robert had a wife he was close to but he lost her the narrator has a wife, but in many ways he is more lonely than Robert, despite this. ![]() There are obviously some interesting parallels between the two men. His moment of deepest insight comes at the end of the story when he closes his eyes while finishing the drawing of a cathedral. 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