The Forest of Enchantments

This is a timeless tale of a love story from Indian mythology. The imagery and world building was superb. The narrative was well paced and beautifully written.

For someone who has read Ramayan, I was really excited to read Divakaruni's "The Forest of Enchantments". I liked the author's writing style and also how she gave her version of the story featuring Sita. Brilliantly executed.

I loved this book. I love reading books about India and I love that there are so many more of them out there now. This is a retelling of Ramayan and having watched it when I was younger brought about nostalgia. I liked that this was told from Sita's perspective whereas all stories are usually told from Ram's perspective.

Thank you so much for the chance to read this book! Growing up in North America, I have often found myself incredibly interested in learning more about other cultures, especially their religions and the gods/goddesses within each culture.

This fantastic retelling has me convinced to read the original source material, and has me hungry for more. A story of womanhood and endurance, this is a memorable tale sure to inspire more readers to experience this story for themselves!

Another wonderful story by Divakaruni that captures the essence of Indian culture and mythology. The writing has a magical and transportive quality I love.

I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. I really enjoyed reading it the plot was interesting and the characters made me want to know more about them. I highly recommend.

This is a beautiful retelling of the epic love story of Ram and Sita, and all their adventures, together and separately, through which they fulfill the destiny they were meant to deliver in this world through the laws of karma. Throughout South Asia, Ram is a name for self-righteousness, justice, where Sita, the beautiful princess is a name that all children know for her strength to sacrifice.

This story pans out the focus from Ram, and spotlights Sita - told in her point of view, drawing out her feelings, thoughts, judgments, decisions, qualities, flaws, as a woman, a wife, a sister and a mother. It also captures several of the forgotten women from the Ramayan mythology, whose courage, strength, sacrifices, capacity to endure for the love of their families is usually left in the background.

The writing is lovely and the story is beautiful. I really enjoyed the fresh characterization of these classic mythological characters.