I like the historical setting of the novel but I did not quite like the characters. There are strong female characters in this book like Rehana, Silvi and Maya but Sohail fails to show the same courage and his obsession with Silvi becomes unsettling and annoying in my opinion. In the end, he does all these things for Silvi to win her back when he should have been focusing on the important things at hand; like the war. Rehana's character truly uplifted this whole novel.