I'm having such mixed feelings about this book. Up until about the 80% mark this was a solid 4 star book. It wasn't perfect but I was enjoying it. Though as I finished and as I was thinking about it, the less and less I liked it and the more problems I saw with it as I read reviews. 

This had so much potential. What I did like about it was the intertwining of greek mythology and Indian lore. This made for a rather rich backdrop for this world to be set in and these characters to be built up in, I loved the themes of feminine rage, Manisha serving justice and giving these monstruous men what they deserved. I also really appreciated the messages weaved through out this book, of what really makes a monster a monster? Though our characters maybe could have had a little more dimension to them I did overall really enjoy them as characters.

This book is dark, and heavy. While we were more than adequately warned of the contents of the book and I knew what I was getting into it was still extremely difficult to get through most of the time as a lot of the violence against woman is on page. It seemed like a very fine line of getting the message of the book across and simply throwing as much pain and trauma onto the pages as possible and I'm unsure of if that line was crossed or not. 
As I was reading other reviews to kind of gather my thoughts and see if people could better voice what I was feeling, one review made an excellent point that ties into the above point and maybe the reason it felt like that line was being so toyed with. It was the fact that all of the abusers and rapist in this story almost felt like 2D caricatures. They were sleazy men that were very clearly bad from everyone's perspective when in reality most abusers do an excellent job at pretending to be model citizens. They are people we know and often people we trusted. I'm bad at wording things properly but when that was pointed out that was another thing to add to the list why this book felt off to me. 

Ultimately though the biggest issue I had with this book was the writing and the pacing. Many reviewers have pointed out how the writing came off as though written for a middle grade novel, while having the contents of an upper YA/adult novel and I would have to agree. That in itself was quite jarring. It's also just extremely slow paced. We don't even get to the meat of what we're told into the synopsis until we're about 100 pages in. It also feels like we don't get a whole lot more then what's in the synopsis.  While I appreciate the method of jumping back and forth between the present day and timeline, it ultimately came off a little jarring and choppy trying to realign with what was going on with each new perspective shift. 

I feel like I have many other thoughts but it's getting late and this review is getting long. Overall this book had a lot of potential. I appreciate it for the message it was trying to convey but overall it just fell flat and didn't quite reach my expectations.