Thursday, August 7, 2025

Goddess of the River

Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel, 496 pages

Regan did an excellent job of summing this one up in her blog post, so I'm not going to rehash that here.  The back and forth between timelines was a bit confusing until I got the hang of it, and it wasn't always easy to tell who was who. But after seeing so many retellings of Greek, Roman, and Norse myths, I did enjoy seeing an Indian myth retelling. I also liked seeing the perspective of goddess who learned from all of the unnatural forms she was forced into (river, human, river again), and I appreciated the brief look into how gods were viewed in Hinduism's ancient stories. Glad I read this one!

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